Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

While ⁦@mtaibbi⁩ & I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence wsj.com/articles/irs-m…

“When did the IRS start to dis­patch agents for sur­prise house calls?. If the IRS wants to au­dit a re­turn, it sched­ules a meet­ing at the agent’s of­fice. It doesn’t drop by unan­nounced.”

“The cu­ri­ous tim­ing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC de­mand that Twit­ter turn over names of jour­nal­ists, raises ques­tions about po­ten­tial in­tim­i­da­tion, and Mr. Jor­dan is right to want to see doc­u­ments and com­mu­ni­ca­tions re­lat­ing to the Taibbi visit.”

“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.”