The new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is just getting settled into his job.
But he found a nasty surprise left for him.
And Pete Hegseth received devastating news that Joe Biden planted one last booby trap for him.
Pete Hegseth facing an IRS audit
When Democrats rammed the grossly misnamed “Inflation Reduction” Act through Congress, some Republicans tried to warn the money used to hire 87,000 new IRS agents would create a private police force used to target Joe Biden’s political enemies.
Now, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a victim of Biden’s weaponized IRS stormtroopers.
Hegseth recently posted on social media an audit letter sent to him by the IRS in Joe Biden’s final days in office.
Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense denounced the audit as political payback for his support of 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’s actions caused former Biden 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 mainstream media ignores Biden’s weaponization of the IRS
The mainstream media 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 the odds of both of them 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.
A full investigation later revealed that the audits of Comey and McCabe were – in fact – random occurrences.
That didn’t stop the media from trying to manufacture the story that Trump weaponized the IRS to go after his enemies.
But it is the Biden administration that has fully weaponized the IRS.
The Biden administration’s track record of attempting to jail political opponents means it should not receive the benefit of the doubt in this case.
