Senate investigators interviewed in recent weeks a whistleblower who claims wrongdoing in the Internal Revenue Service’s mandatory audit of the President and Vice President, the Washington Post reports.
Staffers on the Senate Finance Committee, for both Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), questioned the whistleblower for the transcribed session.
The whistleblower’s existence first came to light in August 2019 in a court filing submitted by the House Ways and Means Committee as part of its lawsuit seeking to obtain President Trump’s tax returns.
The tipster reportedly alleges that a political appointee at the Treasury Department possibly attempted to meddle in the agency’s mandatory audit of Trump’s or Mike Pence’s returns.
This is, of course, not the only whistleblower-related investigation to occur in Congress. The report comes on what may be the final day of President Trump’s impeachment trial over allegations that he extorted Ukraine to announce politically beneficial investigations, a scandal revealed by a whistleblower from the intelligence community.
So, everything will come to light and justice will be done.
If I had to guess, I might say the WB will be disregarded for having second-hand information, those with first-hand knowledge will refuse to talk to the committee or its investigators, the IRS and administration will rebuff any demands for testimony, documents, or other evidence, and the committee chairman will reluctantly have to let the matter drop.
Here comes the first retaliatory investigation that @ralph_vonholst mentioned in another thread this morning.
There is still a lawsuit, 2 I believe. And the state legislative purpose is that the Pres and VP taxes are/were handled correctly.