House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan is probing an unannounced, in-person visit by the IRS to the home of Matt Taibbi on the same day the 'Twitter Files' journalist warned of a sprawling 'censorship industrial complex' in testimony before the...
Mr. Taibbi’s 2021 return had been rejected by the IRS twice despite his accountant filing the return with an IRS-provided identification number.Mr. Jordan, Ohio Republican, said the unprompted visit raises questions as to whether “the visit was a thinly-veiled attempt to influence or intimidate a witness before Congress.”
In December, the two journalists began exposing the extent to which the FBI worked with Twitter company executives to moderate content on the platform. The Post’s report, which ran on Oct. 14, 2020, set off an avalanche of embarrassing emails, photos and text messages pulled from the laptop computer. It revealed details about Hunter Biden’s struggles with addiction and his hugely profitable foreign business dealings that critics say smack of influence peddling.
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