IRS official who targeted conservatives under Obama remains employed by Trump

Robert Choi, the IRS official who targeted Right-wing organizations under the Obama administration, is retaining his role with the Trump IRS.

In 2010, when Choi was the director of the IRS Tax-Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements division, the IRS began scrutinizing tax-exempt organizations linked to the Tea Party, a Right-wing political movement that was gaining popularity. It was later revealed that Choi’s boss, Lois Lerner, had been singling out applications for tax-exempt status that contained words like “tea party” or “patriot.” Lerner, whose emails showed she thought Right-wing Americans were “crazies” and “a**holes,” helped foment an anti-conservative culture within the IRS. She resigned in 2013 after admitting to weaponizing the agency against conservatives.

Records published by the Daily Caller show that Choi, a registered Democrat in Maryland, continues to occupy the same role in Trump’s IRS.

But Choi isn’t the only Leftist agitator employed by the Trump administration.

Steven Jensen

The FBI has come under fire from conservatives for promoting an agent who was instrumental in persecuting the January 6th defendants.

In April, the New York Times reported that Steven J. Jensen was appointed assistant director in charge (ADIC) of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Between April 2020 and October 2021, Jensen was chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, which meant he oversaw operations against Americans who attended the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021. The FBI’s DC office pressured banks to inform on their J6 customers, organized violent raids of their homes, and coordinated with the US Attorney’s Office to intimidate J6 defendants into pleading guilty. The Transportation Security Administration’s Quiet Skies program, which targeted J6 defendants as domestic terrorists and subjected them to harassment and surveillance, would also have been coordinated with Jensen’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Section.

According to congressional testimony from former FBI National Security Intelligence Supervisor George Hill, Jensen referred to J6 defendants as “terrorists” on a conference call in 2021, saying: “I don't give a blank, they're goddamn terrorists, and we're gonna round them all up.”

However, J6 defendants were not the only ordinary Americans who appeared in Jensen’s crosshairs. The FBI official also targeted parents at school board meetings. According to internal emails provided by DOJ whistleblowers, Jensen and his counterterrorism unit investigated numerous parents as domestic terrorists after school board members complained about them. In one instance, the FBI interrogated a father who opposed school mask mandates. The father was reported for being an “insurrectionist” who “rails against the government,” though the informant later admitted that the father had not committed any actual crimes. In another case, the FBI investigated a mother who warned school board members that they would be replaced over their forced masking of children and said, “We’re coming for you.” The mother was reported to the FBI for being part of a “right wing mom’s group” called Moms for Liberty and being a gun owner.

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