Lois Lerner claimed ignorance of tea party
in secret deposition
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/28/2022 5:48:50 PM
Lois Lerner claimed to have little knowledge of the tea party movement and what it stood for, even as she oversaw the IRS’s intrusive scrutiny of tea party groups’ applications for nonprofit status, according to newly released transcripts of a long-secret deposition she gave. In her 2017 testimony, given in a class-action lawsuit brought by tea party groups that the IRS admitted were wrongly treated, Ms. Lerner portrayed herself as a cog in the machine, trying to figure out how to process cases efficiently, rather than the anti-conservative crusader her private comments suggested. She brushed aside her email to colleagues about joining a pro-Obama group
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Crumble' If We Transition From Oil and
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When will the partisan persecution of this bold American patriot end? She dindu nuthin, and that settles it. At least she was allowed to keep her pension. With battle-tested skills like hers, laughing off any and all Republican campaign trail claims that she should be in prison, she'd be a great choice to head up the 87,000-strong stormtrooper arm of the IRS.