on a couple different levels. talk when this story first emerged this summer, it appeared likely the treasury out department would investigate the issue. we re told tonight that a report from that inspector general investigation is actually expected quite soon. if we get anything definite, we ll let you know. but for now, you can add this new reporting on the potential criminal actions of abusing the power of the irs, he can add that to the pile of legal worries the former president as already against him right now. just today, he defied a lawful subpoena to testify to the january 6th investigation in congress. he, today, remains in legal jeopardy and the state of georgia, where a grand jury continues to investigate the effort to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. georgia governor brian kemp is reportedly testifying in that state grand jury criminal investigation tomorrow morning. trump also remains and legal jeopardy over the classified documents he s alleged to have ta
trump responded, yeah, but the writing back bad things about me. the former president is denying these allegations from john kelly, a spokesperson for the former president called john kelly today a psycho. that s what the spokesperson said, he s a psycho. that s nice. why do you pick a psycho to be our longest serving chief of staff? but this is a big deal. and potentially criminally big deal for anybody at the irs who might have gone along with this kind of improper pressure. and also, for donald trump, if he in fact ask for the sort of thing to be done. it s a federal crime for anyone, including the president, to request, even indirectly. an audit of anyone. it s against the law to abuse the power of the irs in that way. if trump asked for it, it s illegal. if trump asked for it and the irs then did it, it s illegal
at the time. this was the headline. comey and mccabe, who infuriated trump, both faced intensive irs audits. michael schmidt at the new york times reporting in july thought of all the tens of millions of taxpayers in this country, somehow, to the people donald trump hated most got picked, supposedly at random, for an audit so invasive that tax lawyers joke about it as an autopsy without the benefit of that. that was the times reporting back in july. now, that already troubling story has gotten significantly worse. trump s longest serving chief of staff, john kelly, but when you see holding the door for his boss here, john kelly now tells the new york times that yes, those audits were instigated because trump asked for them. quote, yes, trump wanted irs investigations of john kelly telling reporter michael schmidt i would say it s important to get, it s illegal, it s against their integrity, and the irs knows what it s doing, and it s not a good book.