Something I believe is not getting any or enough attention re Trump Co indictments today.

[joetheman]

Listening to Rachel on this subject and especially her last guest it occurs to me that perhaps part of this investigation should involve the IRS Inspector General. I feel the same way the Trump's lawyers do, with these kind of obvious an blatant illegalities and corruption, the IRS should have been on this as far back as at least 2015. The only plausible explanation, to me, that 45 had stooges and corrupt entities within the IRS to protect him and his companies.

Congress should be investigating with their oversight authorities why the IRS did nothing about this tax corruption for so many years.

Anybody else think so?

[onecaliberal]

1. You would think. 🤷‍♀️

[Poiuyt]

2. K&R

[C_U_L8R]

3. And what's the deal with the world's longest 'audit' ?

Something smells.

[Blue Owl]

4. The Slobfather's web

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[gab13by13]

5. Republicans defunded the IRS

it doesn't have the money or man power to go after cheats. President Biden wants to invest money into the IRS.

[joetheman]

6. It's the deep plants inside that need to be weeded out. The career employees will know who. nt

[summer_in_TX]

9. Sequestration was just one of the times they cut the IRS down to the bare bones.

They went after the IRS because they claimed it was doing partisan investigations.

[KPN]

11. THIS

[RANDYWILDMAN]

17. The moret they defunded the IRS, the better the donor class has done avoiding taxes

it's not a coincidence

This is a 40 year problem

[Duppers]

7. I have a friend who spent her entire career...

As an auditor with the IRS who said all her bosses and fellow employees were Republicans.

I pressed her for that info, btw. She's a Dem.

[joetheman]

8. So just think about the Congresscritters who either lost their jobs or went to jail for tax

crimes over the last 50 years. Were any Rethugs among them?

[Duppers]

15. Good point. 👍

[Rhiannon12866]

10. And the cheating goes back a lot farther than 15 years

According to Mary Trump's book, it was happening when her grandfather was alive. Donald took millions from his father's lucrative companies to finance his failing casinos - and Trump Sr. died in 1999.

[Jon King]

12. Not just the IRS, the DA outlined federal crimes too....

Garland DOJ is now on notice about the federal level crimes outlined in the indictment. The fraud was vs the tax payers of NY, NYC, the state of NY, and the federal government. This does not have to be the IRS only, there were federal crimes of fraud committed that should be charged by the DOJ.

[Captain Zero]

16. Right if NY State proves he didn't pay taxes to them that he owed then he didn't pay taxes to

Uncle Sam either on that income.
Because we pay state based off the information we supply to the Feds, right?

I don't see how Trump Inc., Trump, and Wessellberg aren't all screwed 15 ways to midnight.

[KPN]

13. You make a good point about where was the IRS the

past 15 years. That oughta be investigated in itself.

[Bev54]

14. Didn't he put one of his own lawyers into the IRS?

And he had Mnuchin run roughshod over the agency.