Tom Fitton's Weekly Update -- June 22, 2018
Tom Fitton's Weekly Update Podcast
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🗓️ 23 June 2018
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Tom Fitton's weekly update here on JW Talk Now. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Judicial Watches update here on social media. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. |
| 0:12.0 | Thanks for joining us this week. |
| 0:13.2 | A lot to talk about new smoking gun documents in the IRS scandal that is never |
| 0:19.4 | going away. The latest on the immigration alien crisis and Judicial Wash of course is doing the work of the |
| 0:27.3 | IG. We're your own private IG. We're suing in court for text messages of a top Mueller anti-Trump deputy. |
| 0:36.9 | So a lot of talk about, but the first news up this week is some big documents out of the IRS as a result of Judicial Watch FOIA |
| 0:47.5 | litigation. These documents show that a top McCain staffer suggested that Lois Learners IRS engage in |
| 0:57.2 | financially ruinous audits of political groups. It's pretty unbelievable stuff. I'm going to get into the details here. |
| 1:06.2 | So what was going on is that the IRS in 2013, just a few weeks before it was exposed that they were targeting conservative and |
| 1:17.4 | Tea Party groups with suppression by asking too many questions in their questionnaires in their applications in a way that were the questions that were both invasive and unnecessary and |
| 1:31.2 | Stalling and delaying the approval of those applications. |
| 1:34.6 | Just two weeks before, you have, we have documents showing there was a meeting with top IRS officials, |
| 1:41.4 | between top IRS officials and Senate officials in Senate staffers |
| 1:47.2 | for Senator Carl Levin, who's a Democrat from Michigan, and Senator John McCain who is the Republican senator from Arizona. |
| 1:56.8 | And these staffers Browbeat Lois Lerner and top IRS officials over their regulation of 501c4 groups, basically political groups. |
| 2:09.2 | The background on this is the Democrats and people like John McCain who have been on the side of the |
| 2:15.4 | left in terms of regulating government speech were furious when the Citizens |
| 2:20.3 | United case came down. You may recall Senator President Obama attacked the Supreme Court to its face during a State of the Union address over the Citizens United decision, which was a 5-4 decision that upheld the First |
| 2:33.8 | Amendment on the encroachments by the McCain-Feingold bill that would have |
| 2:38.8 | regulated the speech of entities engaged in political advocacy or talking about candidates and government officials. |
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