WASHINGTON — The odds of matching six numbers in the Texas Powerball lottery are 1 in 25 million. That’s three times better than the odds that two former FBI directors deemed traitors by then-President Donald Trump, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, were picked at random for an unusually intensive IRS audit known as a “compliance research examination.”
The coincidence is so great that the IRS commissioner appointed by Trump in 2018 asked the department’s inspector general Thursday to investigate, after the audits were uncovered by The New York Times.
Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the House committee that oversees the IRS, agreed the audits have the marking of retaliation — though he blunted the criticism by accusing Democrats of weaponizing the IRS too.
