The Ominous Message Behind the Taxman’s Visit to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home

The Ominous Message Behind the Taxman’s Visit to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home
Journalist Matt Taibbi testifies at the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on “The Twitter Files” in Washington on March 9, 2023, in a still from video. House Judiciary Committee/Screenshot via NTD
Benjamin Weingarten
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When the IRS targeted Tea Party groups during the Obama years, and no one paid a serious price for it, it was both a harbinger of and contributor to the more pervasive and extreme weaponization of the federal government against dissenters from its orthodoxy that was to come.

Benjamin Weingarten
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Ben Weingarten is editor-at-large at RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and The Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at Weingarten.Substack.com
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