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Biden Weaponized the IRS Against a Trump Nominee Before Leaving White House (Pete Hegseth)
PJ Media ^ | 02/17/2025 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 02/17/2025 8:45:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Joe Biden weaponized the Justice Department against Donald Trump and Trump supporters; it should come as no surprise that on his way out the door, he decided to weaponize the IRS against incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth revealed on Monday afternoon that the Biden administration flagged him for an IRS audit. “Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef,” he wrote in a post on X. “Total sham. The party of ‘norms’ and ‘decency’ strikes again. We will never back down.”

According to the document, the family’s federal income tax return indicated they owed the federal government $33,558.16, which they paid right away to prevent additional penalties.

Hegseth was one of the first people Trump nominated to serve in his administration. "I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete Hegseth to serve in my Cabinet as The Secretary of Defense. Pete has spent his entire life as a Warrior for the Troops, and for the Country. Pete is tough, smart, and a true believer in America First," Trump said in a statement on Nov. 12, 2024.

Hegseth, a veteran of the Army National Guard, was previously flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” and ordered to stand down from Joe Biden’s inauguration back in 2021.

The Associated Press reported that 12 U.S. National Guard members were removed from helping to secure Mr. Biden's 2021 inauguration after vetting by the U.S. military and FBI. They were found to have made extremist statements in posts or text messages or had ties with right-wing militia groups. In an interview with podcaster Shawn Ryan, Hegseth said he was one of the National Guard members removed from securing the inauguration.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bloggers; 20210120; 202411; 20241112; audit; biden; bideninauguration; bidensmentaldecline; bloggers; corruption; fbi; fjb; hegseth; inauguration; irs; nationalguard; petehegseth; weaponizedirs
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1 posted on 02/17/2025 8:45:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

IRS MOTTO: “Show us the man, and we will show you the crime.”


2 posted on 02/17/2025 8:50:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden and company were hog poo.


3 posted on 02/17/2025 8:52:32 PM PST by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember when the press was all pearl clutching about Nixon possibly using the IRS to go after his enemies. Now here we are.


4 posted on 02/17/2025 9:08:27 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: jroehl

I remember Lois Lerner and targeting conservatives under Obama.
And Bill Clinton did the same thing.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 9:11:02 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SeekAndFind
Joe Biden weaponized.

Remember, Joe Biden was/is a vegetable.

That's the problem with deep-state rule by committee and fed.gov apparatchik

All kinds of vandalism can be done in secret and nobody has any control over it.

6 posted on 02/17/2025 9:18:11 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

It really wasn’t Biden but his puppets


7 posted on 02/17/2025 9:21:42 PM PST by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: Darksheare
Now, because of this audit, we get to see it. The actual documents that spell it all out along with the corruption we always suspected but never proven until now.

May God grant Trump to overcome evil with success beyond his wildest dreams. For success is better than vengeance any day.

Of course, if our new Attorney General should take notice of the worst of evils...

8 posted on 02/17/2025 9:24:57 PM PST by CptnObvious
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To: CptnObvious

The Democrats freaking out will be legendary.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 9:46:46 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: californian by choice
"It really wasn’t Biden but his puppets puppetmasters"
10 posted on 02/17/2025 10:15:15 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Darksheare

John McCain encouraged Lois Lerner to audit conservatives.

“McCain’s office urged IRS to use audits as weapons to destroy political advocacy groups”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/mccains-office-urged-irs-to-use-audits-as-weapons-to-destroy-political-advocacy-groups-updated/


11 posted on 02/17/2025 10:24:20 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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AP reported that 12 U.S. National Guard members were removed from helping
to secure crooked Biden’s stolen 2021 inauguration after US military and FBI vetting.
<><>found to have made extremist statements in posts or text messages
<><>or had ties with right-wing militia groups.

In an interview with podcaster Shawn Ryan, Hegseth said he was one
of the Ntl Guard members removed from securing the inauguration.


12 posted on 02/17/2025 10:30:18 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

Remember what Edward Snowden said.


13 posted on 02/17/2025 10:35:10 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

He gave us so many reasons to hate him.


14 posted on 02/17/2025 11:38:27 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT


15 posted on 02/18/2025 12:36:52 AM PST by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

I say fix the IRS and go after all the rats on the take


16 posted on 02/18/2025 2:08:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Bkmk


17 posted on 02/18/2025 2:13:43 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden didn’t do crap.

The people who did this to America need to be arrested and gitmoed.


18 posted on 02/18/2025 2:39:12 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Hell can’t be hot enough for McCain.

If what his daughter said was true, how fitting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pjpLiw30M


19 posted on 02/18/2025 2:41:15 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden did a lot of bad things in his 50 years of sucking off the Government.


20 posted on 02/18/2025 4:06:00 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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