Posted on Feb 28, 2020

Donald Trump Toys With Abuse Of Office In Beef Against Washington Post | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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Rachel Maddow revisits the history of Richard Nixon trying to use the IRS to audit his personal political enemies and notes the parallels with Donald Trump's attempt to punish Amazon with higher postal rates because of his personal disdain for The Washington Post.

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CW5 Jack Cardwell

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And the Obama administration actually did it. How soon we forget.

"In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder."

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