Trump Committed 'Serious' Crime If Found To Have Used IRS As Weapon

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A top legal expert has suggested it is "no coincidence" that former FBI Director James Comey and former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who were both fired by Donald Trump, were selected for a rare and intensive audit by the Internal Revenue Service. Comey and McCabe were both subjected to random tax audits in 2017 and 2019, respectively. However, as noted by The New York Times, the odds of being selected for the audit is around one in 30,600, raising questions on the likelihood that two high-ranking FBI officials who were previously fired by Trump, and that the former wanted to prosecute, both happened to be chosen. Responding to the news, Laurence Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard University, dismissed the idea that both men were randomly selected and implied that Trump may have been using the IRS as a weapon against his foes. "This kind of political targeting is a serious federal crime. No coincidence, for sure. Odds are 30,000 to 1," Tribe tweeted.