IRS Unannounced Visit to Home of Twitter Files Reporter — Jim Jordan Demands Explanation

Our mantra is no longer, Make America great again, it’s Make America America again. This is straight up totalitarianism, The Democrats have weaponized every government agency against the American people who stand for our Constitutional rights.

For those asking, I don’t want to comment on the IRS issue pending an answer to chairman @Jim_Jordan’s letter. I’m not worried for myself, but I did feel the Committee should be aware of the situation.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 28, 2023

Jim Jordan Demands IRS Explain Unannounced Visit to Matt Taibbi’s Home

By: Ari Blaff, National Review, March 27, 2023:

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Jim Jordan Demands IRS Explain Unannounced Visit to Matt Taibbi’s Home

Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding an explanation of why the federal agency deployed federal agents to visit “Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi.

Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent the notice on Monday requesting more information into the timing and circumstances of the raid on Taibbi’s house in New Jersey on March 9.

Federal agents were dispatched to Taibbi’s residence the very same day that the investigative journalist appeared before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, also chaired by Representative Jordan.

According to the letter, first obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Taibbi notified Jordan that the IRS instructed him to phone the federal agency four days later, and he was later told that both his 2018 and 2021 tax filings were requested because of “concerns over identity theft.”

Taibbi shared his 2018 tax submission with the Select Committee, which showed that his filing was “electronically accepted” and that no problem was registered with the return for “more than four-and-a-half years,” the Journal editorial notes.

While Taibbi’s initial 2021 return was rejected twice despite his accountant using an “IRS-provided pin number.” Taibbi added that the issue at stake is not “monetary” and that the federal agency actually owes him a “considerable” amount of money.

During Taibbi’s visit to Capitol Hill, Representative Stacey Plaskett (D., Virgin Islands) denounced the former Rolling Stones journalist as a threat.

“Mr. Chairman, I am not exaggerating when I say that you have called before you two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them.” When Jordan laughed at this comment, Plaskett replied, “It’s funny when people have to go through that? This is unacceptable.”

Plaskett derided Taibbi as a “so-called journalist” and repeatedly insisted that there was no “real evidence” publicized in the Twitter Files showing coordination between the federal government and the social-media platform.

“Ranking Member Plaskett, I’m not a so-called journalist,” Taibbi countered. “I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I’ve written ten books, including four New York Times best sellers.”

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fl.) engaged in a similar line of hostile

“Being a Republican witness today certainly casts a cloud over your objectivity.”

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T D

1 year ago

“Jim Jordan Demands IRS Explain Unannounced Visit to Matt Taibbi’s Home.”

Obama weaponized the IRS against his political opponents in 2009-2012.
KGB-like behavior.

Last edited 1 year ago by T D

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armaros

1 year ago

Reply to  T D

The GOP stood by as Trump was smeared, slandered, labeled as a Russian asset
They stood by when J6 was conducting Beria-style prosecutions in a kangaroo court

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Snowedin

1 year ago

IRS has become more abusive is out of control. They need to be abolished.

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Staff Sgt

1 year ago

IRS is another corrupted organization that we need to stop!!!!We really don’t need them or at least the people currently in it. It needs revamped for sure.They spy, lie, spend our money, give our money to corrupt politicians and surely interferes with things they shouldn’t and whatever else that’s corrupt AND THEY GET AWAY WITH IT! It might be about time to enact a global hardcore protest or an ABOLISHMENT on them. I wish we could!!!!!!!!

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ed

1 year ago

I didn’t know that What’sHerName Schultz was still in Congress….

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Grendel

1 year ago

Did the “irs” have the County Sheriff with them? No ‘federal agency’ may operate within any State County without the EXPRESS PERMISSION of the County Sheriff. Why? Because the Sheriff IS ELECTED. …. the “irs” is not.

The “irs” GESTAPO must be disbanded immediatly

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Grendel

1 year ago

The “irs” need only concern themselves with “Internal” revenue.
I don’t know about you …. but I have no “federal Income” nor do I have any monies received due to “federal Privilege”.
Your ‘earnings’ must be directly from the “federal Government” or from working “at privilege”, “for profit”, from the “federal Government” in order to be “INCOME”.
No the 16th Amendment changed NOTHING.
The 16th Amendment granted “NO NEW POWERS OF TAXATION” ……. if it was not taxable before the 16th Amendment, it was NOT TAXABLE after the 16th Amendment.

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dunce

1 year ago

Thousands of identities are stolen every year and the FBI treats it like the local police problem.

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