Tom Hamburger, national security reporter for the Washington Post, talks about what is known about an IRS whistleblower who has raised alarm that audits of Donald Trump or Mike Pence's taxes, which should be insulated from politics, have been subject to pressure from a Treasury Department political appointee. Aired on 10/03/19.
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IRS Whistleblower: Political Taint In Trump Or Mike Pence Audits: WaPo | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Hopefully, this means that the smarmy Mnuchin is gonna be bunkin’ with Bubba.
@SouthSide_ Chicago79 Sorry…since he made the comment…I don’t think there are very fine people on both sides. As long as someone is a supporter of trump’s they are the same low life he is.
@Tracy Hipps That’s the problem right there but you fail to realize it. Fox isn’t credible. Cnn isn’t credible. None of the PAID media is credible. Even mentioning Maddow saying she uses documentation from the government and OTHER sources justs proves how ignorant you are. You remember the night Trump won? I know you do lol, and you also remember how Rachel acted? “This is your world now” blah blah blah. She might’ve been the #1 hater of all of them. Wake up for God sakes. You know that the only chance that Trump would’ve gotten impeached was the 1st attempt when he was ACCUSED of having the Russians interfere with the election. That was serious….and what happened? You think this 2nd attempt is more serious than that? LOL. Cmon. There’s a reason why Vegas has Trump not only beating this impeachment but they also have him winning the 2020 election at -400 thenWarren in 2nd at +400! lmao.
if it comes down to that, he’ll just run off to Israel.
I was stunned that Mnunchin took Oleg Deriapaska off the sanctioned oligarchs list, then during the summer we hear that Daripaska is spending billions to put an aluminum plant in Moscow Mitch’s Kentucky. Coincidence? I think not. Nobody is going to write a “Profiles in Couage” book about this mob..more like “Profiles in Chickenshit”.
I love your text. FABULOUS. that piece of human garbage will be sweating about bubba. Rofl.
what is disturbing to me as an aussie is the number of public servants, department secretaries, members of white house career staff etc who actively enable trumps illegal behaviour and defend him thus destroying their reputations and their own futures.
@Canuckmom1958 Thank You for your encouraging words! This has been a total nightmare, I don’t know what he’ll do next! I cannot comprehend how so many so called educated lemmings have become willfully ignorant! My wife and I recently retired wake up and all we want to do is see the next dreadful thing this pretender has cooked up in his cauldron! Please pray for us for i fear that this abomination and his syncopats are selling us out to the highest bidder!!!
@Not me First and foremost , Thank You for your service! You deserve better! I hope we find a way to curtail this nonsense! This man will be the death of us all!
Its deeply seeded prejudice and hatred of minorities of all backgrounds “taking over America”. In other words at least a third of our country still considers themselves the superior race . Laughable, but unfortunately sad and true.
Crook, Cheater, Liar, Child Abuser, Womanizer, committed Tax Fraud and is a bully… their are criminals in jail today that done less crime then POTUS
Cassidy Smith none I know off
I can smell the sweet scent of Sea water. I sense a blue tsunami in the horizon. I find myself whistleblowing in the morning, whistleblowing at sunset, and whistleblowing before I go to sleep.
Whistlblow while you work🎶
I’m with you man, even most trumpers aren’t that stupid. Some of them were looking for a change and got something else. Take care.l
The Dam is Breaking! AWESOME!
Yes. Nothing will prevent the flood of damming information against Trump from smacking him daily in the face. The country welcomes all whistle-blowers with solid knowledge of Trump’s crooked deeds to bring it to the public.
I cannot wait for the tidal wave flowing over his administration. They are the problem. They conduct the illegal stuff and apparently “do it all the time”. What snarky little fools. You can see on their faces how power has corrupted them. Makes me want to vomit.
The sound of whistles was never quite so soothing
Yes two if them at that HEHEHEH
@EricSmokeTheTires He STILL is trying to keep those returns secret. Why? My guess is because whatever’s in them is WORSE than you think. Because if it was ONLY as bad as you think, they’d release them.
@Emsley Wyatt I don’t see your point since his tax returns have nothing to do with being president. Maybe if you post your tax returns on here for everyone to see it will make more sense.
@EricSmokeTheTires His tax returns would reveal sources of income which would point to potential areas of compromise. As for me, I’m not running for president, but if I were I’d certainly release mine. (They’d make for awfully dull reading though.) You win today’s Republican false equivalency award.
@Emsley Wyatt If you release your tax returns we can look for areas of compromise. Maybe everyone should release their tax returns so we can look for potential areas of compromise. His job is to be president. He got the job without releasing his tax returns. It’s not part of the job. You don’t have to see tax returns to see compromise. Trump is running the country pretty good at the moment. He is doing his part. Other people are not really doing their part but that’s a whole other topic. Since you are stuck on this anti Trump thing. Who do you want to be president then ?
Trump said he´d drain the Swamp ! Sure, he is “the Swamp Thang” and “the Monster in the black Lagoon”, personified !!
Its ironic.. If Trump goes down and stays true to form he will throw his supporters under the bus for failing to save him.. Thus draining the swamp and actually fulfilling one of his campaign promises. I hope y’all liberals do this right so the conservative party can have four to eight years to try to purge the racists, incels and edgelords.
@Thomas K – ROTFLMMFAO!!!!
I have a lot of admiration for whistleblowers and I want to be protected and rewarded for their integrity honest and bravery.
@David can you elaborate on that?
@David oh, and don’t forget to like your own comment again.
@David the jokes on you! I know a little bit about snowflakes, as I live in Alaska.
Filthy45 is the kind of Creepy moist snowflake that won’t stick but bundle up and roll down with Pennywise into the channel
@David Filthy45 will do himself in, because he can’t shut his mouth. Kind of like you.
I have a feeling this will be the “straw that breaks the camels back” cause all people dislike paying taxes, and when someone doesn’t pay their fair share, that angers the voters.
@tonycodolo I’m with you he should become king. Next thing he should do is stop White men that send our jobs to those hard working Mexicans. By numbers there are more white ppl on food assistance than any other demegraphic kick the Mexicans out send those white ppl to the fields 😂 I heard it makes you lazy 😭broke and takes away your dignity.
@EricSmokeTheTires Craziness ppl with mental problems don’t need guns.Name one president who tried to take away your guns name a senator.Please you must have a long list.
@Jaden Grate You must not follow the Democrat debates close enough. Their plan is to slowly get rid of all the guns so that the people can’t defend themselves from the corrupt Democrat government. If the US citizens don’t have guns when someone like Hitler gets in there no one will be able to stop them because they will make sure the people with them are the only ones with weapons.
They don’t seem to care if Trump paid his fair share. They don’t seem to care about if Trump pays, his taxes at all.
@Wonder Wonderful You obviously don’t understand how things work. Maybe if you post your tax returns on here for everyone to see it will make a little more sense.
The US lecturing Ukraine about corruption. That’s rich…
lecturing Biden also, all he ever does is project
@saddleupbike yeah, all his children have done these few years is profit from their dad twisting the arms of other countries.
saddleupbike please do me a favor, to dirt the Biden’s; America does not have a justice department.
no kidding
*CNN will not, I repeat, NOT run any of that tool in chief’s campaign ads. I hope MSNBC will do the same!*
Dont you all miss the time when we didnt have to brace ourselves before watching the news?
There is no more NEWS, it’s called media propaganda centered around a left wing narrative.
@SNFU because REAL news is what fox does…LMAO
@Daniela dos Santos Silva fox is a propaganda media out let with a Agenda also and i don’t find any of it amusing..
Treasury “Appointee ” !?…. That can only be Steve Mnuchin or his Undersecretary.
It eventually will all come out. Somebody was pressured to interfere and illegally hinder the proper auditing of the American President.
Mnuchin has dirty hands for his own misdeeds before his appointment.
Trump blew the whistle on himself like 3 times in the past 24 hours, lmao!
@꧁Lil Fairy꧂ these are sourced based facts. Lets talk about mindless you have no facts of anything just lime the dnc or potus would have been long ago. Lol your so biased you probalt dont even know theres a s FISA investigation going down and DC swamp maggits are freaking out. Oh yes you watch msnbc cnn socialist propagand dnc sanctioned news outlets. Oh your so telling of current DC sourced journalism
SNFU
That poll was shown on Fox News itself. They showed it to prove that trumps base is faithful, they thought it’s a good thing….
Google it yourself little snowflake, we’re not here to babysit you.
Here’s a challenge, let’s see how long it takes you to find it. Go moron, go!
SNFU
You’re a real trumpanzee. Go back to your safe space on Fox News.
@Redwood Madrone lol ok little lamb
SNFU
Trump associates arrested today, trying to flee the country, with one way plane tickets. I’m sure they’re related to the Ukraine trump crimes.
They will hopefully spill the beans quickly, before trump can silence them like he silenced Epstein.
https://youtu.be/ci6O6aZNwpY
Twitter later: “It was a perfect tax return!”
Phone later: “Rudy who do i blame this one on! Should i say the dems asked the IRS for a favor??”
It was actually a beautiful tax return. The IRS called me to say it was the most beautiful they’d ever seen. Then we fell in love.
@Suzy Q – It will be a beautiful impeachment… I’m falling in love with the whistleblowers!!!!!!!
This administration is like a episode of “The World’s Dumbest Criminals.
Watch as they leave clues everywhere.
“WHISTLEBLOWER’S . . .
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their
Country.”
Thomas Paine
Every time he gets away with a crime, he commits ten more. And so far he has gotten away with all of them.
These whistleblowers are hero’s. They have been threatened with their lives but are loyal Americans who have put their country first.
Hopefully this is the start of an avalanche of whistle-blower complaints – they should grow in confidence as they see Trump implode before our eyes.
If that reporter changes his last name to “Hamberder” he just might get an interview with trump.