Top IRS Official Terminated After Public Tirade Against Trump Administration
High-ranking Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officer Niki Wilkinson was terminated after the Daily Caller reported on her public LinkedIn posts bashing the Trump administration and Republicans, sources close to the White House told the Caller.
Wilkinson accused President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers of “fear mongering” and “falsely describing” the work of former IRS official Holly Paz, who was accused of going after conservative groups with targeted audits.
Paz, who served as deputy to Lois Lerner during the Obama-era Tea Party targeting scandal, was placed on leave by the Trump administration after Republican members of Congress alleged she was using audits of pass-through businesses to go after conservative business owners.
“Such a farce! Interesting how Senators outside the IRS are fear mongering and falsely describing the work. They have no idea what Examiners found in those audits, which in fact exposed fraud or noncompliance in the passthrough area as for years the IRS didn’t effectively audit them,” Wilkinson wrote in a LinkedIn comment.
Wilkinson has also repeatedly used LinkedIn to criticize Trump and his administration, including two posts this week accusing the president of corruption and several others amplifying Democrats’ attacks on the president. (Read more from “Top IRS Official Terminated After Public Tirade Against Trump Administration” HERE)
