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Special Counsel Investigating Trump Was Key Figure In IRS Targeting Scandal
TFP ^ | 11/20/2022 | Jack McEvoy

Posted on 11/20/2022 6:05:22 AM PST by Conservativetpa

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate former president Donald Trump’s possession of classified information, was a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s infamous targeting of conservative non-profits, according to a 2014 report by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.

On Oct. 8, 2010, Smith, then-Chief of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section at the time, called a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner “to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits,” according to testimony from Richard Pilger, then director of the section’s Election Crimes Branch and subordinate of Smith’s, to the Oversight Committee.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: creepstate; deepstate; doj; fbi; fib; investigation; jacksmith; merrickgarland; policestate; singlepartystate; trump
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1 posted on 11/20/2022 6:05:22 AM PST by Conservativetpa
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Politically active nonprofit #1: the FBI.


2 posted on 11/20/2022 6:07:08 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Conservativetpa

Another farce, another waste of taxpayer money being used for political purposes. Down with the fake regime of freaks, perverts, and criminals.


3 posted on 11/20/2022 6:07:36 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: Conservativetpa

Another outrageous abuse of power by Merrick Garfinkel

Job #1 is to Impeach that SOB


4 posted on 11/20/2022 6:09:28 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Conservativetpa

That can’t be right, it sounds unethical . . .


5 posted on 11/20/2022 6:12:02 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: coloradan

Nothing like a man with experience. Why don’t they drop the masquerade and just name Weissmann as SC. He’ll be running it just Comey’s sham.


6 posted on 11/20/2022 6:12:52 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge )
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To: Conservativetpa

Is this an example of Psaki “circling back?”


7 posted on 11/20/2022 6:12:55 AM PST by MCSETots
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Wow imagine lois recalled to Congress, since she did so well the first time she had to resign. “

"substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia"- DOJ report

ya know this bitch might just want payback for the this guy Smith failing to give her any cover. And at 70 she will optically be an old ratchet. Lawyer up, you bitch!

8 posted on 11/20/2022 6:13:46 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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You mean like Hillary did when Bill was President... and also Obama did.

Congress should inform the Democrats that whatever they accuse someone else of doing they will investigate them for, as that is their MO.


9 posted on 11/20/2022 6:15:00 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Is this an example of Psaki “circling back?”

It sounds more like a dog circling back to its vomit. Maybe it's just me.

10 posted on 11/20/2022 6:15:32 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! He will win 2024!)
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To: Conservativetpa

It’s disgusting to me as a taxpayer, that ANYONE who advised or helped the IRS do illegal political targeting, be chosen for such a political based investigation. This is proof positive that it’s election interference. It’s revolting that the media doesn’t expose this on a daily basis. This is anti democracy, illegal government interference, as was done to the Tea Party all over again.

Everyone should ask why it’s happening again. The answer, like for the election fraud, is that nobody physically hung the first time.

Bill Barr, that’s clearly on you.


11 posted on 11/20/2022 6:16:49 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Conservativetpa

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.


12 posted on 11/20/2022 6:17:38 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Conservativetpa

Just another swamp critter deserving capture and removal to a zoo


13 posted on 11/20/2022 6:18:49 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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I’m going to call my representatives on Monday to tell them to stop this. I’m in a blue state, so it’s probably useless, but I don’t know what else to do.


14 posted on 11/20/2022 6:20:56 AM PST by KittyKares
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To: Pete Dovgan

“...ANYONE who advised or helped the IRS do illegal political targeting, be chosen for such a political based investigation. This is proof positive that it’s election interference. It’s revolting that the media doesn’t expose this on a daily basis. This is anti democracy, illegal government interference, as was done to the Tea Party”

Demonkkraps don’t believe that a word of what you wrote applies here. In fact they would say the exact opposite. The media and big tech is in place to keep the GOP in check and where possible, destroy them, and any judge who opposes them. US is in the fight for its life right now.


15 posted on 11/20/2022 6:27:26 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: Conservativetpa

Peach Fo Fi


16 posted on 11/20/2022 6:37:05 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble )
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To: Conservativetpa

IIRC, this IRS scandal also gave rise to Catherine Emglebrect’s “Trie the Vote.” I don’t remember details but she was involved by not getting an exemption for a non-profit….or something.


17 posted on 11/20/2022 6:47:01 AM PST by lonestar (Texan for Trumpit”s)
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To: Conservativetpa

bkmk for further study


18 posted on 11/20/2022 6:49:16 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Conservativetpa

So, he’s on a *side*

Good to know.


19 posted on 11/20/2022 7:09:39 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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Hang on...you mean this clown is a Swamp Creature?


20 posted on 11/20/2022 7:38:10 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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