Tucker Carlson Reacts To Hunter Biden's Plea Deal
jesse Watters: Is President Biden still proud of Hunter?
I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. TULSI GABBARD
Both political sides know the DoJ is corrupt. However, while one side timidly admits it, the other vehemently denies it. The Dems are lying because they like the DoJ playing on their team, but they’re losing the narrative battle (53 percent of the public thinks the FBI is Joe Biden’s Gestapo). The Republicans are sick of their base being demonized, but lack the political power to do anything about it. Donald Trump challenged the DoJ and FBI. Look how that turned out for him. JOHN GREEN
JOE BIDEN = A POLITICAL LIFE OF BRIBES SUCKING LIES AND GAMING THE LAWS THAT MIGHT BRING HIS GIG TO AN END!
The Democrats’ angst about the FBI potentially being held in contempt comes as Comer’s probe into the Biden family uncovered damning information. The probe uncovered that the Biden family business, over the course of several years, received at least $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling. In addition, nine Biden family members received payments from the family foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren, Comer revealed.
Democrats Latest Plan: Target Middle Class Americans with IRS Audits, Keep Billionaire Loopholes Open
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A bill backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) would unleash the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on middle class Americans while keeping tax loopholes open for billionaires and their multinational corporations.
The plan, which Schumer and Manchin have agreed to, would massively bulk up IRS audits and criminal investigations to the sum of tens of billions of dollars — nearly all of which will be dedicated to going after middle class Americans squeezed by inflation.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board details the scheme:
The bill earmarks $45.6 billion for “enforcement,” including “litigation,” “criminal investigations,” “investigative technology,” “digital asset monitoring” and a new fleet of tax-collector cars. The result will be far more audits, civil suits and criminal referrals. [Emphasis added]
The main targets will by necessity be the middle- and upper-middle class because that’s where the money is. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, says that from 78% to 90% of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year. Only 4% to 9% would come from those making more than $500,000. [Emphasis added]
The IRS knows the super-wealthy employ lawyers and accountants who make litigation time-consuming and risky. It also knows that Democrats would howl if the agency pursues fraud in the earned-income tax credit program, despite what the IRS has estimated are $18 billion in improper payments each year. [Emphasis added]
At the same time, tax provisions hugely benefitting billionaires and their multinational corporations would go untouched.
The Schumer-Manchin plan includes billions in green energy tax credits that would be swooped up by billionaires to cut their corporations’ annual tax burdens. Jeff Bezos’s Amazon notoriously employs this strategy to pay close to zero in corporate income taxes.
Breitbart News’s John Carney writes:
Amazon’s tax bills were part of the inspiration for a minimum tax. The company faced no federal corporate income tax liability in 2017 and 2018. In the years since, it has had an effective tax rate that is just a fraction of the 21 percent rate put in place by the Trump administration’s tax reforms. According to the calculations of Matthew Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, over the past four years Amazon’s effective aggregate tax rate was just 5.1 percent. [Emphasis added]
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While the alternate minimum tax would prevent companies from using deductions for capital investments or stock-based compensation, it continues to allow them to use tax credits, Daniel Bunn of the Tax Foundation told us. In fact, the bill includes hundreds of billions of dollars worth of new tax credits aimed at fostering green technology adoption. And Amazon plays in beast mode when it comes to using tax credits to reduce its tax bill. [Emphasis added]
Jeff Bezo’s retail giant said in its annual report that tax credits reduced the taxes it would have otherwise owed by $1.1 billion. The company has said that most of those tax credits are federal research and development credits, although it does not give much detail in its annual reports. The Manchin-Schumer tax bill would not touch this. Amazon will lose the benefit of the write-off for stock-based compensation, but the company will most likely at least partially offset that by using the green tech tax credits. The end result could be no change in Amazon’s tax rate. [Emphasis added]
President Joe Biden and House Democrats tried to pass a similar tax plan last year as part of the administration’s “Build Back Better” agenda that has failed to catch on in Congress.
That plan would have targeted an additional nearly 600,000 working and middle class Americans earning less than $75,000 a year with IRS audits. Of those new IRS audits, more than 313,000 would have targeted the poorest of Americans who earn $25,000 or less a year.
Similar to the Schumer-Manchin bill, Biden’s plan would have provided a $625 billion tax cut for the wealthiest Americans living in blue states — paid for by working and middle class Americans.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
'We'll Get The Last Laugh': Hunter Biden Rallied to Buddy’s Side in Massive Indian Tribal Bond Fraud Scheme
Devon Archer is headed for prison after losing an appeal earlier this month
Hunter Biden’s world was crashing down on him in 2018. He was the target of a federal tax investigation, in the throes of drug addiction, and had just fathered a child with whom he wanted no contact. But one thing brought the troubled first son joy: a temporary legal reprieve for a longtime business partner who defrauded a Native American tribe out of $60 million.
"Im [sic] smiling for the first time in a year," Hunter Biden wrote his partner, Devon Archer, on Nov. 18, 2018, after a judge overturned Archer’s conviction months earlier for defrauding the Wakpamni tribe in a massive bond scheme, according to text messages from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
"Thank fucking god! First good news in way too long my friend. I am so happy for you," continued Hunter Biden, who also appeared to criticize the justice system that had come down hard on his friend.
"Motherfuckers," wrote Hunter Biden. "I swear to god we’ll have the last laugh."
The celebration over Archer's reprieve was short-lived. An appeals court in October 2020 reinstated Archer's conviction, and the disgraced businessman was sentenced to one year in prison last year. He will soon begin serving time after losing an appeal earlier this month.
Five years after Hunter Biden's excitement at his business partner escaping Justice Department charges, he has found himself in the agency's crosshairs. The U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware has since 2018 investigated Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings, many of which were carried out through Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s investment firm. House Oversight Republicans subpoenaed Archer this week to testify about his dealings with Hunter Biden as part of their probe into the Biden family’s business activities—it was through Rosemont that the longtime friends had investments in China and Ukraine.
While Hunter Biden was not implicated in Archer’s Indian bond scheme, one of Archer’s co-conspirators touted connections to Hunter Biden in order to give the bond proposal a veneer of legitimacy.
"Hunter Biden works for [Archer]. So we’ve got the top-level politicos with us," Bevan Cooney, who was convicted alongside Archer, said in a secretly recorded phone conversation disclosed at trial.
The younger Biden had reason to be relieved at the time of his friend’s legal victory. Archer’s legal troubles had been a thorn in Biden's side ever since he learned he was named as a witness in the case.
"I am receiving calls from the Southern District of New York. From the district attorney himself. My best friend in business, Devon, has named me as a witness, without telling me, in a criminal case," Hunter Biden said in a May 2018 voice memo with an unknown woman. "I’m talking about a fucking criminal case in which Devon has me named as a witness."
Eight months later in January 2019 Biden copied the recording to his iTunes folder on his laptop and renamed it "Most Genius Shit Ever."
Archer appears to have harbored some bad blood with the Biden family over the fact that Hunter Biden’s father was a leader in the administration that arrested him and put him in jail in the first place, texts show. Archer confronted Hunter Biden in March 2019, saying their Chinese business associates at the private equity firm BHR Partners keep asking why his family didn’t even try to help.
"Why would they try to ruin my family and destroy my kids and no one from your family’s side step in and at least try to help me," Archer asked in a March 2019 text. "I don’t get it. And I’m depressed. Bunch of these Asians getting in my head asking me the same."
Hunter Biden said it was the cost of doing business with his family.
"Every great family is persecuted prosecuted in the us — you are part of a great family," Hunter Biden said. "You are a Biden. Its the price of power.and the people questioning you truly have none whereas you do through perseverance and poise… The powerful are targets in this country the more powerful they become."
"It’s unfair at times but in the end the system of justice usually works and like you we are redeemed and the truth prevails," Hunter Biden added. "The unfairness to us allows for the greater good."
Hunter Biden's elation at the prospect of a friend getting away with defrauding a Native tribe starkly contrasts with President Joe Biden’s purported championing of tribal communities. The White House claims that President Biden has "deployed record investments" to Native communities and made "the largest single investment in infrastructure for Indian Country ever."
Comer: Oversight Committee Will Continue Investigation into the Bidens Despite ‘Sweetheart Deal’ for Hunter
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) vowed Tuesday the committee would continue to investigate President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden despite the “sweetheart plea deal” announced for the latter.
He said in a statement:
Let’s be clear: the Department of Justice’s charges against President Biden’s son Hunter reveals a two-tiered system of justice. Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery. These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee’s investigation. We will not rest until the full extent of President Biden’s involvement in the family’s schemes are revealed.
The younger Biden, 53, on Tuesday agreed to plead guilty to two federal tax violation charges and one violation of gun laws, as reported by Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak.
He agreed to plead guilty to willful failure to pay federal income tax — most likely on his foreign earnings — and will enter a “pretrial diversion program” regarding his gun crime, indicating that he will face no jail time.
The plea deal will likely involve Hunter Biden admitting to misdemeanor charges that will keep him from jail — and will avoid a trial. President Biden could pardon his son at any point, voiding any criminal consequences.
The plea deal comes just weeks after the Justice Department indicted former President Donald Trump on 37 felony charges related to his handling of allegedly classified documents that amount to 400 years in jail.
The Oversight Committee recently unearthed an FBI document that memorialized a conversation in June 2020 with an FBI informant who alleged that the then-CEO of Ukrainian natural gas company Mykola Zlochevsky said he paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each for help on a corruption investigation and other issues between around 2015 and 2016.
This allegedly occurred around the time the elder Biden was responsible for Ukraine as then-vice president, and Hunter was given a position on the board of Burisma for $80,000 a month despite having no experience with natural gas. The informant relayed to the FBI that Zlochevsky said he had 17 audio recordings of phone calls with the Bidens — 15 with Hunter Biden, and two with Joe Biden.
The committee also unearthed 20 shell companies it said was wired money from foreign entities to nine Biden family members.
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Hunter Biden Plea Deal Excludes Alleged Biden $10M ‘Bribery’ Scheme
Hunter Biden’s plea deal with United States Attorney David Weiss appears to exclude the alleged Biden $10 million “bribery” scheme an FBI informant documented and that Weiss reportedly obtained from former Attorney General William Barr.
Hunter Biden on Tuesday agreed to plead guilty to two federal tax violation charges and one violation of gun laws, per reports Tuesday morning.
The decision of whether to ultimately charge Hunter Biden was up to Donald Trump-appointed United States Attorney David Weiss. In March, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would personally have to authorize any potential charges against Hunter Biden.
But notably, the plea deal with Weiss appears to exclude any charges related to the alleged Biden “bribery” scheme in which Hunter and President Joe Biden accepted $5 million each from a Ukrainian energy company executive, Mykola Zlochevsky, according to an FBI informant file reviewed by the House Oversight Committee.
In June, Barr said the informant file was sent to Weiss during the Trump administration. At the time, Weiss had an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden.
“It was sent to Delaware for further investigation,” Barr told the Federalist.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Tuesday ripped the Justice Department for appearing to ignore the bribery scandal.
“If the DOJ thinks this dismisses the $5 million alleged bribery scheme or the years of reported Biden family corruption, they are mistaken,” she posted on Twitter.
According to recent polling, 83 percent of voters believe the FBI should make public its informant file that alleges Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky. In addition, a majority of voters believe Joe Biden took the $5 million bribe.
Related: FBI Refuses to Commit to Releasing Document Alleging Biden Bribery
Senate Judiciary CommitteeFollow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
Fake President Mocks Real Reporter For Asking Him Why He’s Called ‘the Big Guy’
What is this, Joe, third grade?
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
What is this, Joe, third grade? In Old Joe Biden’s dementia-addled mind, it could be. On Thursday, the alleged president responded to an important question from a genuine reporter with aplomb more suited to the playground than the presidency. The New York Post’s Steven Nelson asked the doddering corruptocrat, “Why did the Ukraine/FBI informant file refer to you as the ‘big guy’?”
Mustering all the braggadocio of the man who led the high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas so long ago, Old Joe sneered, “Why’d you ask such a dumb question?” Tell ‘em, Joe! The worst part was that there were no other real reporters in the room to follow up and hold the old liar’s feet to the fire.
Old Joe has apparently decided to use ridicule and derision to brush aside all tough questions about his corruption. Nelson also asked the putative president, “Are there tapes that you accepted bribes, President Biden? Is that true?” BizPac Review reported Thursday that “instead of answering, Biden stopped, turned around to face the reporter, and was seen grinning. He also appeared to be chuckling to himself but did not actually give any sort of answer. He shook his head as he headed back on his way out of the room.”
It’s an effective tactic that Leftist politicians favor; Hillary Clinton has made copious use of it as well. Faced with an uncomfortable question, the idea is to shake one’s head in disbelief, chuckle (or cackle, in Hillary’s case) at the outlandishness and absurdity of these right-wing attacks, and offer nothing of substance. Far-Left guru Saul Alinsky made it explicit: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.”
Nowadays, with the Left utterly bereft of rational arguments and determined to demean, demonize, and destroy all opposition, ridicule is the only response patriots can expect when they challenge Leftist politicians. Nelson’s question, however, was deserving of a more serious response.
Fox News reported Thursday that “according to a source familiar with the FBI-generated FD-1023 form, a confidential human source told the FBI in a June 2020 interview that Biden, while serving as vice president, was paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden sat on the board… The Burisma executive reportedly told the confidential source that he ‘didn’t pay the Big Guy directly.’”
We have seen Old Joe called the Big Guy before. Back in July 2022, the New York Post reported that “one of Hunter Biden’s former business partners referred to Joe Biden as ‘the Big Guy’ in a panicked message the same day The Post broke the news of the infamous laptop from hell left behind by the president’s son.” That would be James Gilliar, whom the Post describes as a “former British special forces officer with ties to UK intelligence services.” He sent a message reassuring someone else involved in Old Joe’s dirty dealings that Hunter’s laptop wouldn’t do much damage.
Maybe Gilliar knew about the 51 top intelligence officials who were ready to lie that the whole thing was Russian disinformation. In any case, speaking about the 2020 election, Gilliar said of the Biden camp: “If they lose, honestly, I don’t think that the Big Guy really cares about that because he’ll be too busy focusing on all the other s–t he is doing.”
Gilliar is the one who, back in May 2017, stipulated that Hunter would receive 10% of the proceeds from a joint venture “for the Big Guy.” Meanwhile, one of Hunter’s other ex-business partners, Tony Bobulinski, “publicly declared in October 2020 that ‘big guy’ was a reference to President Biden.”
Anyway, just imagine for a moment how convulsed with self-righteous rage the establishment media would have been if President Trump had asked any reporter why he or she or xe asked such dumb questions. There would have been new calls for impeachment and for the invoking of the 25th Amendment, along with dark warnings about the authoritarian president’s attacks on the freedom of the press constituting a serious threat to “our democracy.” Yet now we have a genuinely authoritarian president who has had his chief opponent arrested and whose disdain for the loyal opposition and the rule of law are obvious, and he is so secure in the knowledge that he will remain unchallenged that he can ridicule with absolute impunity reporters who dare to ask genuine questions.
Really, Joe, why did your corrupt former business partners refer to you as the Big Guy? Your insult of Steven Nelson is a clear demonstration of your absolute contempt for the American people and our genuine concerns. But the question is still awaiting your answer.
Robert Spencer
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Hunter Biden’s plea deal will see him walk away from gun and tax felonies
A short time ago, news broke that Hunter Biden, who blatantly violated gun and tax laws, is getting a laughably lax plea deal. The lack of real justice for a series of real crimes highlights how despicably biased the American legal system is. It’s become a two-tiered system with no punishment for real criminals and over-the-top punishment for conservatives.
According to the Washington Post:
The court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million over those years, according to people familiar with the plea deal, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe details of the agreement that are not yet public. Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation for those counts, these people said. Biden’s representatives have said he previously paid back the IRS what he owed.
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The second criminal information is about the gun charge. In that case, the letter says, “The defendant has agreed to enter a Pretrial Diversion Agreement with respect to the firearm Information."
Handling the gun charge as a diversion case means Biden will not technically be pleading guilty to that crime. Diversion is an option typically applied to nonviolent offenders with substance abuse problems.
Image: Hunter Biden selfie from BidenLaptopMedia.com.
Laughably, Hunter’s lawyer writes, “I know Hunter believes it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life.” In fact, those minimal hand-slaps for felonies (not mistakes) reveal that Hunter’s taken no responsibility whatsoever. Tom Fitton sums up nicely what just happened to a man who committed serious felonies, including tax crimes tied to his father’s alleged bribery crimes:
The left will not punish those who support its policies or advance its push for power. A truly tragic example of that refusal to punish wrongdoers emerged in Minneapolis, where the highly criminal son of a hard-left, BLM state politician just murdered five women with his car:
Horrifying video shows the moment Derrick John Thompson, 27, smashed into the car carrying Sabiriin Ali, 17, Sahra Gesaade, 20, Salma Abdikadir, 20, Sagal Hersi, 19, and Siham Adam, 19, officials said.
Thompson has a criminal record that includes a 2018 hit-and-run in California that gave the woman life-changing injuries. She spent several weeks in a coma.
He was given an eight-year sentence, with 502 days as credit for time already served and another 75 days credit for good behavior.
Thompson was freed and on Friday is suspected of being behind the wheel of a speeding car that tried to flee a police officer when it crashed into a vehicle with the five women on Lake Street as they were getting ready for a friend's wedding the next day.
When contacted as to why he was out of prison, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney could not give any specific reason but suggested that California's proposition 57 gave the state 'wide latitude to award additional custody credits, as well as, early parole opportunities.'
Under the law as they saw it, Thompson should've had to spend another five-and-a-half years in prison.
The vehicle Thompson was driving at the time had over 17 pounds of marijuana and $20,000 in cash, according to Fox News.
This video, which is horrifying without being graphic, gives you a sense of the speed with which Thompson was traveling on a city street:
It’s possible that Thompson will finally face real consequences now, but the issue is that he hasn’t previously faced them, despite the above-referenced conviction in California, plus myriad driving offenses in Minnesota.
Thompson’s shield has been his father, who is a real piece of work. We wrote about him here, in a post accurately titled Minnesota’s Rep. John Thompson and third-world style political corruption. Rep. Thompson was eventually expelled from the state legislature. It’s reasonable to believe that young Thompson’s race, plus his father’s political connections and ideology, had a great deal to do with young Thompson’s life of crime without consequences.
Thompson is just the latest example, of course. The news is filled with stories of people terribly harmed or killed by criminals with endlessly long records who revolve through the doors of our criminal justice system, especially when Soros-funded prosecutors are in charge.
Meanwhile, people who walked through the Capitol after the police opened the doors for them are having their lives destroyed. Another example is Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative Trump supporter who was sent to prison for a political fund-raising charge that’s usually addressed with a fine and nothing more.
America no longer has justice. It has a two-tiered system in which leftists and their political allies (and pawns) are above the law, while conservatives from Trump on down are below the law. Not only does this reveal the true death of our constitutional republic, but it’s also, ironically, damaging most of all the people on whom the left relies for political power: namely, blacks. After all, it is they who are in the line of fire when violent criminals keep being released to America’s streets.
IRS Agent Uses Fake Name and Reason to Enter Taxpayer’s Home and Demand Money Not Owed
The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is investigating the case of an IRS agent who used a fake name and false pretense to gain access to an Ohio taxpayer’s home, Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced Friday.
In a press release, Rep. Jordan reported that he has sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel revealing “new information that an IRS agent visited an Ohio taxpayer on April 25, 2023, using a fake alias and deceptive tactics to secure entry into the taxpayer's home.”
The incident raises concerns that the IRS is abusing the civil liberties of American taxpayers, Jordan explains.
Jordan’s letter to IRS Commissioner Werfel lays out the details of the taxpayer’s ordeal, beginning in April, when an IRS agent using the fake name “Bill Haus,” gained access to an Ohio woman’s home by telling her he was there to discuss issues concerning an estate for which the taxpayer was the fiduciary.
“Haus” told the woman that the estate owed a substantial amount of money. Then, when she showed him proof that she had paid all taxes for the decedent’s estate, “Haus” changed his story and claimed the decedent allegedly had several delinquent tax return filings.
At this point, the woman called her attorney who repeatedly told Agent “Haus” to leave the woman’s house – prompting the agent to respond:
“I am an IRS agent; I can be at and go into anyone’s house at any time I want to be.”
Before leaving “Haus” said he threatened to free all of the woman’s assets and put a lien on her house, if she didn’t pay up.
Worried that she was the victim of a scam, the woman then contacted the Marion, Ohio Police Department (MPD), which used the license plate number of “Haus” to discover his true identity. MPD verified that he was, indeed, an IRS agent who had used a fake name to gain entry into the woman’s house and harass her. MPD warned “Haus” that he would be arrested, if he returned to the woman’s house.
The taxpayer met with the IRS supervisor, who assured her that nothing was owned. But, the next day, the woman received a letter from the IRS claiming that several tax returns were delinquent.
Finally, after speaking with the supervisor again, the woman received a letter from the IRS saying that the case had been closed.
The woman’s troubling IRS ordeal is not an isolated incident, Chairman Jordan says in his letter, explaining that his committee is currently looking into another suspicious, unannounced visit by an IRS that may have been an effort to intimidate a whistleblower who was about to testify before Congress:
“On March 27, 2023, the Committee previously wrote to you and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about an IRS agent visiting—unannounced and unprompted—the home of journalist Matt Taibbi. Incredibly, at the time of the visit, Mr. Taibbi was testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about how the federal government pressured, coerced, and even directed technology companies to take certain actions related to digital content.
“The Committee is continuing to investigate the IRS’s reasons for visiting Mr. Taibbi’s home and whether the visit was conducted in an attempt to intimidate a witness before Congress.”
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration plans to use $80 billion from the “Inflation Reduction Act” to hire 87,000 more IRS employees - potentially doubling its current staff of about eighty thousand.
It’s Not Just the FBI: The IRS goes into ‘Beast Mode’
We have seen for some time how off-the-rails the FBI has become, a danger to a free society. More and more evidence now shows it’s not just the FBI. Every federal employee with a badge and gun seems to think he’s a law unto himself. This week the spotlight is on the IRS, and the Congress has to step up and rein the agency in.
While Matt Taibbi was testifying before Congress on the administration’s extensive censoring of social media content, the IRS appeared at his door, ostensibly to question him about his taxes, but obviously to intimidate him for showing up government censorship.
Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft.
Mr. Taibbi has provided the committee with documentation showing his 2018 return had been electronically accepted, and he says the IRS never notified him or his accountants of a problem after he filed that 2018 return more than four-and-a-half years ago.
He says the IRS initially rejected his 2021 return, which he later refiled, and it was rejected again -- even though Mr. Taibbi says his accountants refiled it with an IRS-provided pin number. Mr. Taibbi notes that in neither case was the issue “monetary,” and that the IRS owes him a “considerable” sum.
The bigger question is when did the IRS start to dispatch agents for surprise house calls? Typically, when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a dunning letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced.
But that was just the beginning of a series of outrageous actions.
As Congressman Jim Jordan detailed in a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel this week:
We have recently received allegations that an Internal Revenue Service Agent provided a false name to an Ohio taxpayer as part of a deception to gain entry into the taxpayer’s home to confront her about delinquent tax filings. When the taxpayer rightfully objected to the agent’s tactics, the IRS agent insisted that he “can …go into anyone’s house at any time” as an IRS agent.”
The Wall Street Journal provides more details of this civil rights intrusion. The taxpayer was a fiduciary for an estate:
Mr. Haus claimed she had not properly filled out estate forms and owed the IRS “a substantial amount.” Only when the taxpayer presented 
proof of paying all taxes on the estate did the agent reveal that his visit wasn’t about the estate at all. It was about several supposed delinquent tax returns related to the decedent of the estate.
The letter says the taxpayer called her attorney, who insisted Mr. Haus leave the house, only to be told by Mr. Haus: “I am an IRS agent, I can be at and go into anyone’s house at any time I want to be.” Mr. Haus finally left, but not before threatening to freeze the taxpayer’s assets and put a lien on her house if she didn’t satisfy the balance in a week. Fearing a scam, she called the local police, who ran Mr. Haus’s license plate to verify his identity.
When an officer called Mr. Haus, Mr. Haus identified himself as an IRS agent but said Haus wasn’t his real name. He had used an alias. The officer, also suspecting a scam, warned that if he returned to the taxpayer’s home he’d be arrested. Mr. Haus then filed a complaint against the Marion police officer with the Treasury Department inspector general.
The House letter says the taxpayer on May 4 spoke with Mr. Haus’s supervisor, who clarified that she owed nothing and said -- in the understatement of the year -- that “things never should have gotten this far.” Yet the following day, the taxpayer received a letter -- addressed to the decedent -- stating that the decedent was delinquent on several 1040 filings. This was the first and only mail notification the taxpayer received. The taxpayer was again told by the supervisor that nothing was owed and was notified on May 30 that the case was closed.
If true, this is something else. An agent of the Treasury, wielding the power of tax enforcement, shows up unannounced at a taxpayer’s home. He lies about his identity and his purpose to get inside, then threatens the taxpayer with punishment if she doesn’t pay a tax bill that she doesn’t owe. The IRS agent leaves only after an intervention by her lawyer, and when local police call the agent, he sics the Treasury Department on the officer.
The overreach by armed IRS agents didn’t stop after these two incidents. Twenty armed IRS agents raided a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, earlier this week. The owner reports that these agents confiscated all the 4473 forms, none of which contain any financial information. David Paulides tweeted: “20 armed IRS agents raided his store in Great Falls earlier this week. Tom [the shop owner] informed me that these agents confiscated all the 4473 forms, none of which contain any financial information; instead, the IRS now has access to these forms with sensitive personal details of every customer who purchased a firearm from Highwood Creek Outfitters.”
Does any of this bother you? The debt deal on the Inflation Reduction Act did cut $21 billion out of the IRS’ $80 billion budget, but did not reduce or eliminate the Administration’s plan to hire 87,000 more of these armed, over-the-top Fearless Fosdicks. Forbes dismissed the objections to retaining this expense.
“The Inflation Reduction Act past [sic] last year, gave the IRS billions to go into what the Wall Street Journal at the time called “beast mode.” That law was doling out about $80 billion to the IRS for increased enforcement, operational improvements, customer service, and systems modernization. That stands at more than six times the 2022 annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. Of the $80 billion, a whopping $45.6 billion was for enforcement. Earlier reports had suggested that the IRS would hire 87,000 new agents. Unfortunately, the ‘87,000 new IRS agents’ line because [sic] a rallying cry for some groups, and some of those lines may resurface again now.”
You can bet those massive new hires will remain a rallying cry.
PIG GAMER LAWYERS AND PIG GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN: THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
WHERE ARE THE PITCHFORKS???
We have seen for some time how off-the-rails the FBI has become, a danger to a free society. More and more evidence now shows it’s not just the FBI. Every federal employee with a badge and gun seems to think he’s a law unto himself. This week the spotlight is on the IRS, and the Congress has to step up and rein the agency in.
While Matt Taibbi was testifying before Congress on the administration’s extensive censoring of social media content, the IRS appeared at his door, ostensibly to question him about his taxes, but obviously to intimidate him for showing up government censorship.
Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft.
Mr. Taibbi has provided the committee with documentation showing his 2018 return had been electronically accepted, and he says the IRS never notified him or his accountants of a problem after he filed that 2018 return more than four-and-a-half years ago.
He says the IRS initially rejected his 2021 return, which he later refiled, and it was rejected again -- even though Mr. Taibbi says his accountants refiled it with an IRS-provided pin number. Mr. Taibbi notes that in neither case was the issue “monetary,” and that the IRS owes him a “considerable” sum.
The bigger question is when did the IRS start to dispatch agents for surprise house calls? Typically, when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a dunning letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced.
But that was just the beginning of a series of outrageous actions.
As Congressman Jim Jordan detailed in a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel this week:
We have recently received allegations that an Internal Revenue Service Agent provided a false name to an Ohio taxpayer as part of a deception to gain entry into the taxpayer’s home to confront her about delinquent tax filings. When the taxpayer rightfully objected to the agent’s tactics, the IRS agent insisted that he “can …go into anyone’s house at any time” as an IRS agent.”
The Wall Street Journal provides more details of this civil rights intrusion. The taxpayer was a fiduciary for an estate:
Mr. Haus claimed she had not properly filled out estate forms and owed the IRS “a substantial amount.” Only when the taxpayer presented
The letter says the taxpayer called her attorney, who insisted Mr. Haus leave the house, only to be told by Mr. Haus: “I am an IRS agent, I can be at and go into anyone’s house at any time I want to be.” Mr. Haus finally left, but not before threatening to freeze the taxpayer’s assets and put a lien on her house if she didn’t satisfy the balance in a week. Fearing a scam, she called the local police, who ran Mr. Haus’s license plate to verify his identity.
When an officer called Mr. Haus, Mr. Haus identified himself as an IRS agent but said Haus wasn’t his real name. He had used an alias. The officer, also suspecting a scam, warned that if he returned to the taxpayer’s home he’d be arrested. Mr. Haus then filed a complaint against the Marion police officer with the Treasury Department inspector general.
The House letter says the taxpayer on May 4 spoke with Mr. Haus’s supervisor, who clarified that she owed nothing and said -- in the understatement of the year -- that “things never should have gotten this far.” Yet the following day, the taxpayer received a letter -- addressed to the decedent -- stating that the decedent was delinquent on several 1040 filings. This was the first and only mail notification the taxpayer received. The taxpayer was again told by the supervisor that nothing was owed and was notified on May 30 that the case was closed.
If true, this is something else. An agent of the Treasury, wielding the power of tax enforcement, shows up unannounced at a taxpayer’s home. He lies about his identity and his purpose to get inside, then threatens the taxpayer with punishment if she doesn’t pay a tax bill that she doesn’t owe. The IRS agent leaves only after an intervention by her lawyer, and when local police call the agent, he sics the Treasury Department on the officer.
The overreach by armed IRS agents didn’t stop after these two incidents. Twenty armed IRS agents raided a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, earlier this week. The owner reports that these agents confiscated all the 4473 forms, none of which contain any financial information. David Paulides tweeted: “20 armed IRS agents raided his store in Great Falls earlier this week. Tom [the shop owner] informed me that these agents confiscated all the 4473 forms, none of which contain any financial information; instead, the IRS now has access to these forms with sensitive personal details of every customer who purchased a firearm from Highwood Creek Outfitters.”
Does any of this bother you? The debt deal on the Inflation Reduction Act did cut $21 billion out of the IRS’ $80 billion budget, but did not reduce or eliminate the Administration’s plan to hire 87,000 more of these armed, over-the-top Fearless Fosdicks. Forbes dismissed the objections to retaining this expense.
“The Inflation Reduction Act past [sic] last year, gave the IRS billions to go into what the Wall Street Journal at the time called “beast mode.” That law was doling out about $80 billion to the IRS for increased enforcement, operational improvements, customer service, and systems modernization. That stands at more than six times the 2022 annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. Of the $80 billion, a whopping $45.6 billion was for enforcement. Earlier reports had suggested that the IRS would hire 87,000 new agents. Unfortunately, the ‘87,000 new IRS agents’ line because [sic] a rallying cry for some groups, and some of those lines may resurface again now.”
You can bet those massive new hires will remain a rallying cry.
PIG GAMER LAWYERS AND PIG GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN: THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
WHERE ARE THE PITCHFORKS???
Hannity: We’re living in a banana republic
IRS Whistleblower Says Biden Admin Interfering in Hunter Tax Fraud Probe
Hunter Biden to Plead Guilty in Deal: 2 Tax Counts, 1 Gun Charge
Hunter Biden, 53, son of President Joe Biden, has agreed to plead guilty to two federal tax violation charges and one violation of gun laws, per reports Tuesday morning.
Biden will plead guilty to willful failure to pay federal income tax — most likely on his foreign earnings — and will enter a “pretrial diversion program” regarding his gun crime, indicating that he will face no jail time.
Biden’s dubious business exploits came to light during the Obama administration, after he was discharged from the Navy for drug use and immediately found employment on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Reporters briefly questioned the White House about Hunter Biden’s role, given that his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, had been placed in charge of Ukraine policy under President Barack Obama. State Department officials complained about the conflict of interest, but were told that the Vice President was grieving for his other son, Beau Biden, who died after a battle with brain cancer. The issue was never resolved.
President Donald Trump raised the question of Hunter Biden’s role with then-newly-installed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019 — an overture for which House Democrats impeached the president.
Trump’s concerns were vindicated by the discovery and publication in 2020 of a laptop apparently belonging to Hunter Biden, which contained emails and other records documenting his business interests. But Silicon Valley social media companies, and the mainstream media itself, suppressed and censored the story, and intelligence figures created the false impression that it was Russian propaganda. After the election, Hunter Biden admitted that he had been under investigation for tax violations, but the Bidens continued to deny claims of corruption.
Critics also pointed out that Hunter Biden had likely lied on a federal gun purchase form when lying about his addiction to drugs. The topic surfaced periodically as President Biden vowed to take executive action on guns.
The plea deal will likely involve Hunter Biden admitting to misdemeanor charges that will keep him from jail — and will avoid a trial. President Biden could pardon his son at any point, voiding any criminal consequences.
News of the plea deal emerged less than two weeks after the Department of Justice indicted former President Donald Trump on felony charges with lengthy prison terms related to his handling of presidential documents.
This story is developing.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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