{"id":49828,"date":"2023-03-29T06:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T10:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49828"},"modified":"2023-03-29T06:53:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T10:53:50","slug":"a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49828","title":{"rendered":"A Police State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi is a journalist who has been reporting on the Twitter files released by Elon Musk. Matt Taibbi is not a conservative and is considered an objective journalist. As anyone who has followed the story is aware, the Twitter files show a lot of illegal activity in the collaboration between Twitter and a number of government agencies. Obviously, the deep state is not happy about this information being revealed to the public. Telling the truth has consequences.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/03\/irs-targets-twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-irs-agent-showed-up-unannounced-to-taibbis-home-on-same-day-he-testified-before-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>An IRS agent showed up at the home of \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 journalist Matt Taibbi on the same day he testified before Jim Jordan\u2019s Committee on Weaponization of the Federal Government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>How convenient.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On March 9, Matt Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/03\/matt-taibbi-drops-another-twitter-files-ahead-of-testimony-to-congress-the-censorship-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped <\/a>a Twitter Files ahead of his testimony to Congress: THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-36\">\n<div class=\"ai-dynamic\" data-code=\"\" data-fallback-code=\"\">\n<div class=\"g g-1\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-19\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger appeared before Congress later that day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The FTC had already been harassing Elon Musk and demanding he \u201cidentify all journalists\u201d granted access to the Twitter files.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The IRS agent just showed up to the journalist\u2019s home unannounced!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/irs-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-jim-jordan-daniel-werfel-lina-khan-84ee518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Democrats are denouncing the House GOP investigation into the weaponization of government, but maybe that\u2019s because Republicans are getting somewhere. That includes new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service may be targeting a journalist who testified before the weaponization committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter Monday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking an explanation for why journalist Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent. We\u2019ve seen the letter, and both the circumstances and timing of the IRS focus on this journalist raise serious questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Mr. Taibbi has provided the committee with documentation showing his 2018 return had been electronically accepted, and he says the IRS never notified him or his accountants of a problem after he filed that 2018 return more than four-and-a-half years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>He says the IRS initially rejected his 2021 return, which he later refiled, and it was rejected again\u2014even though Mr. Taibbi says his accountants refiled it with an IRS-provided pin number. Mr. Taibbi notes that in neither case was the issue \u201cmonetary,\u201d and that the IRS owes him a \u201cconsiderable\u201d sum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a desperate need to clean house in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi is a journalist who has been reporting on the Twitter files released by Elon Musk. Matt Taibbi is not a conservative and is considered an objective journalist. 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