Great news! The IRS is hiring people who are comfortable with firearms and using deadly force. But don't worry, they swear they aren't coming after YOU! We give you the latest. There have also been insane (yet unsurprising) details in the Trump raid. And Christopher Wray doesn't appreciate alleged "threats" coming from right-wingers like Steven Crowder. All this AND special guest: Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake!

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FBI RAID UPDATE

1. Mar-a-Lago has CCTV surveillance.
2. The FBI subpoenaed Trump for and received the CCTV footage PRIOR to the recent raid. SOURCE: Independent
3. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Eric Trump said, SOURCE: DailyMail

• “They told our lawyer… you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras.”
• “They would not give her [Trump’s lawyer] the search warrant.”

4. Allegedly, the raid was predicated on “information from an FBI confidential human source,” according to two senior government officials. SOURCE: Newsweek

• A ‘senior Justice Department source’ called the raid a “spectacular backfire” and also said, SOURCE: Newsweek
  • “Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time of the specific raid, nor was he asked to approve it.”

CHRIS WRAY SAYS CONSERVATIVES ARE MAKING VIOLENT THREATS AGAINST FBI

• Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, was asked about threats from Trump supporters. SOURCE: YouTube
• They include us in this group of “deplorable” threats. SOURCE: HuffPost
  • “Right-wing influencer Steven Crowder delivered an alarming message to his nearly 2 million followers on Twitter: ‘Sleep well. Tomorrow is war.’”
  • “Crowder’s inflammatory rhetoric was standard right-wing messaging across America on Tuesday.”

TIME SAYS CONSERVATIVES ARE LYING ABOUT IRS

• As we’ve pointed out, the Inflation Reduction Act will allocate $80B to the IRS allowing it to hire 87K new employees. SOURCE: CNBC
  • Well according to Eric Cortellessa at Time magazine: SOURCE: TIME
    • “There’s only one problem. It’s not true.”

CLAIM #1: Most new hires won’t even be agents. SOURCE: TIME

• “According to a Treasury Department official, the funds would cover a wide range of positions including IT technicians and taxpayer services support staff, as well as experienced auditors.”
• TRUTH #1: This is irrelevant and the logic is stupid.
  • For example, Only 10% of the military engages in battle. SOURCE: SoldierProject
  • Oppenheimer didn’t fight the Japanese but that doesn’t mean he didn’t help the mission.
• TRUTH #2: They are also definitely hiring new agents.
  • According to a now-removed job posting, SOURCE: Archive
    • “[applicants must] Maintain a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life-threatening situations on the job.”
    • “Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”
    • “Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.”
• And these agents are going to be armed to the teeth!
  • According to a 2019 article in Forbes, SOURCE: Forbes
    • “An official report says that at the end of 2017, the tax agency had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in its weapons inventory.”
  • From March to June 2022, the IRS purchased an additional $700,000 worth of ammunition. SOURCE: VerifyThis
• And under 26 US Code § 7608 (b)(2), among other duties, IRS agents can, SOURCE: Cornell
  • “[T]o make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States relating to the internal revenue laws committed in his presence, or for any felony cognizable under such laws if he has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing any such felony.”

CLAIM #2: The new funding is only restoring previous capacity to the IRS. SOURCE: TIME

• “In all, the IRS might net roughly 20,000 to 30,000 more employees from the new funding, enough to restore the tax-collecting agency’s staff to where it was roughly a decade ago”
• According to the article, a lot of the new positions will actually be replacing retirees.
• TRUTH: The IRS budget is set to massively increase.
  • Eventually, the budget will be 40% more, adjusted for inflation, than in 2011. SOURCE: WSJ
  • The agency’s workforce is set to expand by up to 15% PER YEAR.

CLAIM #3: The lack of staff means that the IRS couldn’t audit the richest Americans.

• “Among wealthy individuals who had a positive income of a million dollars or more, the audit rate fell from 8.4% in 2010 to 2.4% in 2019.”
• TRUTH: Audits for low to middle-income earners also Dropped during the same period. CNBC
  • Analysis released by House Republicans Tuesdays showed that: Those making $75,000 or less would be subject to 710,863 additional Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits.” SOURCE: DailyMail

LONELY//SINGLE MEN ON THE RISE

• On Tuesday, August 10, Psychology Today became another outlet reporting on ‘male loneliness’. SOURCES: PsychologyToday, TheEconomist, Happiness.com, TheUKTimes
  • Dr. Matos from the Psychology Today piece SOURCE: PsychologyToday
    • “Men are the loneliest they’ve ever been in generations, and it’s probably getting worse.”

MISC.

• Robert O’Rourke doesn’t understand firearms at all.

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