Former FBI director James Comey and assistant director Andrew McCabe, both fired by disgraced criminal former President Trump for simply doing their jobs, faced intense IRS audits following their departures, the New York Times reports. Aside from being stupid and unnecessary because federal law enforcement agents can be fired for missing too many credit card payments, it was also a hell of a “coincidence,” because it was supposed to be a completely random audit.
Comey was among 5,000 picked in 2019 for a colonoscopy of his 2017 returns, one of 153 million filed that year. In 2021, with the IRS still being helmed by Trump-appointed Commissioner Charles Rettig, Andrew McCabe’s 2019 return was among 8,000 selected out of 154 million from that year.
Comey and McCabe’s returns each roughly had one in 30,000 and one 19,250 chances, respectively, to have been picked in those years. What the odds were for two guys who had formerly worked together to both “win” this lottery two years apart is probably pretty fucking astronomically low, so it would seem like Charlie Rettig, whose four year term expires in November, should face a hell of an invasive probe from the Justice Department himself.