Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is just settling into his job.
But there was a nasty surprise awaiting him.
And Pete Hegseth was crushed to learn Joe Biden played one last dirty trick on him.
IRS audits Pete Hegseth
When Democrats rammed the so-called “Inflation Reduction” Act through Congress, Republicans warned the money used to hire 87,000 new IRS agents would create a private police force targeting Joe Biden’s political enemies.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth believes he is a victim of Biden’s weaponized IRS.
Hegseth posted on social media an audit letter sent to him by the IRS in Joe Biden’s final days in office.
The Secretary of Defense decried the audit as political payback for supporting Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
“Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham. The party of ‘norms’ and ‘decency’ strikes again. We will never back down,” Hegseth wrote on X above a photo of the letter.
Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an “audit” of the incoming SecDef. Total sham.
The party of “norms” and “decency” strikes again. We will never back down. pic.twitter.com/coW1UpFPrD
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) February 17, 2025
“They love the low blows,” Elon Musk wrote in response.
Musk provided the jumping off point for former Biden administration officials to claim Hegseth was trying to distract from Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashing government spending and firing nonessential Deep State bureaucrats.
One former Biden official said Hegseth’s social media post was a “vain attempt to distract from how the richest man in the world is rifling through Americans’ personal finances and Social Security information.”
The press collectively yawning at the Biden administration auditing a prominent Trump supporter – after four years of the Justice Department hunting down Trump supporters for January 6 and terrorizing Donald Trump with lawfare – stood in stark contrast to how it treated the IRS randomly auditing former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe in 2017 and 2019.
The Times made it seem like the odds of both getting audited were infinitesimally small.
“Mr. Comey was informed of the audit in 2019. Two years later, the I.R.S., still under the leadership of a Trump appointee after President Biden took office, picked about 8,000 returns for the same type of audit Mr. Comey had undergone from the 154 million individual returns filed in 2019, or about one in 19,250,” the Times reported.
“Among those who were chosen to have their 2019 returns scrutinized was the man who had been Mr. Comey’s deputy at the bureau: Andrew G. McCabe, who served several months as acting F.B.I. director after Mr. Comey’s firing,” The Times story continued.
An investigation revealed that the audits of Comey and McCabe were – in fact – random occurrences.
That didn’t stop the press from trying to manufacture the story that Trump weaponized the IRS to go after his enemies.
The Biden administration’s track record of attempting to jail political opponents means it shouldn’t receive the benefit of the doubt.
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