The Trump administration is overhauling the Internal Revenue Service’s crime investigation unit to better target left-leaning groups and donors, people with knowledge of the scheme told The Wall Street Journal in a piece published Wednesday.
The report lends credence to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat on “The Charlie Kirk Show” to go after dissenting political groups much like the Treasury Department hunted terrorists through their financial networks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bessent called the assassination of Kirk a “domestic 9/11.”
Read the entire report from The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal, citing insiders, wrote that a senior IRS official has already concocted a list of potential donors to probe, including George Soros.
To facilitate the hunt, officials told WSJ that allies of President Donald Trump would be installed at the IRS Criminal Investigation division to undermine the work of IRS lawyers in the investigations. Gary Shapley, an adviser to Bessent, has said he is going to replace longtime IRS-CI chief Guy Ficco and is compiling the target list, according to the newspaper,.
