Posted on 04/17/2025 3:01:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Trump administration official in March asked the IRS to review an audit of MyPillow chief executive and conservative political personality Mike Lindell, according to two people familiar with the request and records obtained by The Washington Post.
David Eisner, a political appointee at the Treasury Department, wrote to senior IRS staff that Lindell — whom he called a “high profile friend of the president” — had received his second audit letter in two years and “he is concerned he may have been inappropriately targeted.”
The IRS referred the inquiry to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the agency’s independent watchdog, said one of the people, who like others in this report spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Tax experts say the outreach on behalf of a Trump political ally is highly unusual and represents a sea change in how political appointees engage with the nonpolitical tax agency.
“That’s so inappropriate,” said Nina Olson, who served as the national taxpayer advocate from 2001 to 2019. “In my 18 years as the national taxpayer advocate with over 4 million cases that came into the Taxpayer Advocate Service, in that time with taxpayers experiencing significant problems with the IRS, I have never had a Treasury official write me about a case.”
In an interview, Lindell said the Treasury Department had “misconstrued” his request. Lindell said he sought help from the IRS to resolve a problem with the employee retention credit his company claimed during the covid-19 pandemic. Congress authorized a tax credit for employers that kept staffers on their payrolls during the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
Lindell and the IRS disagree about which year his company should claim for the credit, he said. After he emailed the IRS several weeks ago criticizing the program, the...
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Ha! Lois Lerner anyone?
...and the FIB stopping Lindell at a fast food drive thru to seize his phone. Nooooo, not targeting. Doesn’t that happen to EVERYONE?
But...but....wait....I’ve read here, RECENTLY, that PRESIDENT Trump has completely distanced himself from Lindell.
Why would he even care what the IRS is doing to this poor man?
Because he does care. Lindell has been a stalwart supporter of POTUS and of America.
MSM trying to stir more 0bama up.
“Tax experts say the outreach on behalf of a Trump political ally is highly unusual and represents a sea change in how political appointees engage with the nonpolitical tax agency.”
Nonpolitical my ass.
No kidding.
Maybe WaComPost forgot all about Lois Lerner.... AND, Timmy Geithner.
They should temporarily shut down the audit department.
Every conservative talk show host will tell you they get audited yearly.
It was proved that Obama and his butt monkeys targeted conservatives for years while he was president...
That’s why we should have a consumption tax and not income tax. Incent politicians to focus on the economy. Employers have become defacto IRS tax collectors by having to employee tax software, staff etc. that could be invested in the business or change the code to make people write a tax check at the end of the year. There would be a revolution the first year.
My late father was a three-war Marine. As patriotic and honest of a gentleman as you could imagine. When slick Willy was in office my father wrote a polite letter criticizing a policy. He had never been audited prior. He was audited the next 3 years running.
Mike Lindell was cancelled. All of the big box stores, at one time or another, gave his My Pillow products the boot. He’s been trying for years to claw back store space.
At the same time frame, Keith Ellison, a Muslim Commie Attorney General of Minnesota, has attacked Mike Lindell and his My Pillow corporation, by using lawfare out of the Attorney General’s office, filing charges nonstop.
Mike has blown through over 10 million dollars in lawyer fees.
Hmmm...
More leakers have taken the bait...
Flush’em, Dano!
I would move My Pillow out of Minnesota and put in another state.
So full of s&it...stinky
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