CTP (S3E105, 20250621) Weaponized Government: The Chrisley Pardon
The politically-motivated prosecution and subsequent pardon of Todd and Julie Chrisley reveals deeper issues with our tax enforcement system and government weaponization against political opponents. Their case demonstrates how the IRS targets everyday Americans while the wealthy can afford legal teams to fight back.
• Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted of tax evasion but recently pardoned by President Trump
• Their daughter shared an emotional video about receiving the pardon news directly from President Trump
• The Chrisleys may have been specifically targeted because of their political affiliations
• Even celebrities like Nicolas Cage and Wesley Snipes have faced serious tax issues despite having professional accountants
• The wealthy can afford tax attorneys to shelter income and fight audits while average Americans cannot
• 87,000 new IRS agents were hired to target middle and lower-class Americans who can't afford legal representation
• When audited, average citizens often pay disputed amounts rather than spending more on legal fees to fight
• Political targeting by government agencies has precedent, similar to Lois Lerner targeting conservatives during the Obama administration
• Regardless of who prepares your taxes, you are ultimately responsible for what appears on your return
The politically-motivated prosecution and subsequent pardon of Todd and Julie Chrisley reveals deeper issues with our tax enforcement system and government weaponization against political opponents. Their case demonstrates how the IRS targets everyday Americans while the wealthy can afford legal teams to fight back.
• Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted of tax evasion but recently pardoned by President Trump
• Their daughter shared an emotional video about receiving the pardon news directly from President Trump
• The Chrisleys may have been specifically targeted because of their political affiliations
• Even celebrities like Nicolas Cage and Wesley Snipes have faced serious tax issues despite having professional accountants
• The wealthy can afford tax attorneys to shelter income and fight audits while average Americans cannot
• 87,000 new IRS agents were hired to target middle and lower-class Americans who can't afford legal representation
• When audited, average citizens often pay disputed amounts rather than spending more on legal fees to fight
• Political targeting by government agencies has precedent, similar to Lois Lerner targeting conservatives during the Obama administration
• Regardless of who prepares your taxes, you are ultimately responsible for what appears on your return
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00:00Welcome to the Constitutionalist Politics Podcast, a.k.a. CTP.
00:07I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard, and that's L-E-N-A-R-D.
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00:19I really appreciate you tuning in.
00:22Graham Norton will say, let's get on with the show!
00:25Hello, everyone.
00:31First, my apologies if I've gotten you confused by my confusion about what season of Constitutionalist Politics is this exactly?
00:50Well, it's season three.
00:54Why am I confused and may have got you confused?
00:59I think I said season three would begin in July.
01:03Well, no.
01:06And I just thought of this the other day, got my mind wrapped around it and straightened myself out.
01:13I began the show in the month of June a couple years ago.
01:23So season one started up in the month of June.
01:28So a new season, since I'm not going to do calendar years, I could have cheated and said season three of Constitutionalist Politics began in January of this year.
01:44But no, I planned on doing Saturday monologues, so a year, a season would be 52 episodes, right?
01:56Well, I didn't start the first Saturday in June, so that first season really should have been less than 52 episodes,
02:06then season two would have been 52 and so on and so on and so on.
02:12So I got myself confused and started saying, well, July would start a new season.
02:18Well, no, not really.
02:20June.
02:21So June 2025 is the beginning of season three of Constitutionalist Politics.
02:29So this is season three, episode 105 of the generally usually Saturday monologues.
02:39But I'm throwing that out the window today anyway, as you know, I can sometimes do and not do a monologue.
02:48Today, another weird one.
02:51I'm actually, and I've got notes here, behind the scenes sneak peek video, you could see me doing the Rush Limbaugh thing.
03:01In my formerly nicotine stained hand, ruffling the paper so I was not a smoker, so my fingers aren't formerly nicotine stained.
03:11At any rate, putting that aside, I am going to air part of a Savaged Unfiltered show.
03:23As most of you know, I co-host Savaged Unfiltered, not all the time, but a lot of times,
03:32along with sometimes Meow Man, as I call him, Bobcat, Lament, Bob Lament, long-time radio personality, sometimes co-hosts.
03:46Sosalyn Timison, rare that we see him anymore, but he used to co-host, and some other occasional guest co-hosts on.
03:57But I've been the regular co-host for a lot of the episodes over the last two, three years of Savaged Unfiltered.
04:07At any rate, EMI, right? You don't need to know that.
04:11What am I getting at?
04:13Do you know the name Chrisley?
04:16There was a reality show called Chrisley Knows Best.
04:22Who is Todd and Julie Chrisley?
04:25Well, if you didn't know the name, and maybe still don't know the name, before Trump pardoned them,
04:34and that's what this is going to be about, Chrisley Knows Best was their show,
04:40so the Savaged Unfiltered show name is Chrisley's No Pardons.
04:47Huh? Get the play there, right, because Trump pardoned them on their taxization sentence?
04:57Conviction?
04:58At any rate, we'll get into that.
05:01But if you didn't know the name before now, you're not alone.
05:08I'm not a big reality TV person.
05:10And reality TV, to me, is watching a sporting event.
05:16That's actual reality TV, although, you know, not to get into the conspiracy of,
05:23oh, these sports are scripted, and they pick who's going to be the champions of the season.
05:29Putting all that aside, sports are the reality TV I watch.
05:35So, at any rate, if you've not heard of the Chrisley's before now, you're not alone.
05:42I didn't either.
05:43I had no idea who Todd and Julie Chrisley were until Trump pardoned them.
05:49And even when Michael, a.k.a. Savage, said,
05:53hey, we're going to do a show about the Chrisley's,
05:56I was like, who?
05:58Who are they?
05:59And you'll see in the episode, I was like, flying blind for part of it
06:05as Michael explained what was going on for me to react to it.
06:11But this is important because there are some aspects of things,
06:18the weaponization of our institutions, our governmental departments,
06:26like Lois Lerner during Obama years targeting conservatives.
06:32I truly believe the Chrisley's were probably targeted.
06:37Now, they may have been guilty of tax evasion.
06:41I don't know all the facts.
06:44And they were convicted.
06:46Their accountant, they may have hired, like,
06:49Wesley Snipes got bad advice and claimed sovereign citizen.
06:55Look how well that worked for him and not paying taxes went to jail.
06:59Look at Nicolas Cage, which I go into into the show.
07:05His accountants underpaid his taxes.
07:10To avoid jail, he had to agree to pay back taxes, right?
07:16So sometimes people you hire don't serve you well.
07:20But your name's at the bottom of the taxes.
07:23The bottom line is you're responsible for the taxes.
07:28And if you can't under audit with your accountant,
07:32argue before a jury that indeed you don't owe those taxes,
07:39you got to pay them.
07:40You're the one that will go to jail, not your accountant.
07:43So political targeting is why I feel this episode is in part to share.
07:53I'll only share part of it.
07:55To see the whole thing, go to savagedunfiltered.com
07:59or my YouTube channel, J. Leonard Detroit YouTube.
08:05I don't have it on my other channels.
08:07But I did put the Savaged Unfiltered Season 6, Episode 660 of Savaged Unfiltered,
08:16Chris leaves no pardons, on my YouTube channel.
08:21You can see it there also.
08:23So without further ado, let's get into the snippet of the show.
08:29Welcome back to a podcast, not like the rest,
08:32where we deliver nothing but savaged and uncut content.
08:35Where did I go?
08:35From a lifestyle studio in Tampa,
08:41brings a show so raw and uncut we need.
08:44No filter on Savaged Unfiltered and savaged.
08:51I'm Michael Gardner, the host, otherwise known as Savaged here.
08:55And yeah, Joe, I got my phone, buddy.
08:59The other one, I'm letting shake the sun, Carl, the other one.
09:03So it's okay.
09:04Regarding the camera, no, zoom out.
09:07We don't want a close-up.
09:08The closer people get to look at you, the worse you look.
09:12You'll look better from further away.
09:13I'll take my zoom in, Mr. DeVille.
09:15I'm ready to go, you know?
09:18Yeah, what movie was that?
09:20I'm ready for my close-up.
09:23Mr. DeVille.
09:24Yeah.
09:25Anyway.
09:26Well, you are gardener, not gardener.
09:30No.
09:30Do you have a green thumb?
09:32Can you garden?
09:34Ah, sometimes.
09:37I'll allow my daughter to do it.
09:39Or the plants at your house.
09:40Okay.
09:41She handles the plants or you kill them.
09:44Okay.
09:44I got it.
09:44Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:46I like that scene from that 90s show with Red Fillman, or Foreman, excuse me.
09:52He's like, look what happened in our garden today.
09:55And Kitty's like, show me the harvest.
09:59And he shows him the harvest.
10:01He shows his wife the harvest.
10:03And it's this tiny little tomato.
10:05And she's like, great.
10:06I'm going to slice it up and put it on some burgers.
10:08You can't slice up this damn tomato, Joe.
10:15So anyway, at any rate, like I'm going to steal from Joe, we want to talk about today,
10:23guys, the latest pardons coming out of President Trump.
10:26Oh, wait, what?
10:28What, what, what, what?
10:29Oh, Trump pardoned someone?
10:31I thought we were going to talk about Loretta Lynn's, I beg your pardon.
10:36And I never promised you a Rose Garden song.
10:40No, no, no, no.
10:42She, okay.
10:43She never.
10:43I misread the memo.
10:46You misread a lot, Joe.
10:48No, no, no.
10:49I didn't get that joke.
10:51Of course, guys.
10:53Old country song, Loretta Lynn, yeah.
10:56It is.
10:58But, but no, no.
11:00Todd and Julie Chrisley, the latest on the list of pardons from President Trump,
11:05has been released from prison.
11:07Yeah.
11:07I got to admit right up front, I don't know a damn thing about these people.
11:13No, no.
11:14I mean, well, Joe, they are, they, they are well-known reality TV stars.
11:20Apparently, I, I'm not a reality TV person, but yeah, apparently a lot of people know them,
11:28but I don't know any of the facts of why they lined it up.
11:34Heave to the, who's God.
11:35Hey, hey, when you're in the room, it happens like magic, you know, like you could be a well-known
11:42person like that.
11:43I mean, look at, look at Nicole, uh, Polizzi, right?
11:47Uh, the Snooki of, uh, MTV's, uh, Jersey Shore.
11:50She was a nobody until MTV, uh, you know, discovered it.
11:54All the same.
11:55Yeah.
11:56The situation and all of them.
11:58I, I never watched that dumb show.
12:01I, I didn't, I didn't get it.
12:04You know, a lot of people like it.
12:08Yeah.
12:08Yeah.
12:08Well, right.
12:10Young people watching other young people do stupid stuff and party.
12:14Okay.
12:15No, I'm sorry.
12:17Old fogey.
12:18I don't get it.
12:19I have zero desire to see stupid shit like that, but Hey, you know, if it floats your
12:27boat, if it's your cup of tea, knock yourself out.
12:31I watched one season actually of, well, a couple seasons and episodes of the Jersey Shore.
12:38And you know, it was okay.
12:40It was okay.
12:41I mean, it portrayed like the typical environment of, you know, clubbing and bar hopping on the
12:48Jersey Shore.
12:49That thing is new and original.
12:51I guess I could get people tuning in that first season.
12:56Okay.
12:56This is different.
12:58Let's see what it's about.
13:00But to watch season after season, you know, it's the bread and circus thing.
13:06People are lazy.
13:08They don't want to deal in important stuff, you know, politicians fucking them over on a
13:16daily basis.
13:17No, I just want to watch mindless TV 24 seven and let them fuck me over.
13:25Oh, well, you know, okay.
13:26It's your life.
13:27Joe, it seems like your life has been fucked over by a bearing with this type of shit.
13:33Well, I'm definitely raging Joe today.
13:36Right.
13:37Yeah.
13:38We haven't seen comical from Joe in like, well, jokester Joe appeared earlier with the
13:43rose garden joke that you didn't get.
13:46So I know seven 47 went right over the head.
13:49Didn't even stop for, uh, for pleasures, older country music fans.
13:54Got it.
13:55The younger people, who the hell is Loretta Lynn?
14:00So, so, so let's talk a little bit.
14:02Let's, let's, let's dive into this, uh, the show guys.
14:04If you're not well aware of, uh, the Chrisley's, uh, you know, both, um, Todd and Julie, uh,
14:11both husband and wife, uh, literally have been in prison for quite some time.
14:16Uh, and they were in prison.
14:18If I have correctly, Joe, with my notations, uh, in prison for tax evasion.
14:24Oh, yes.
14:26Yes.
14:27Yeah.
14:27They, they, they, they were, they, they, they supposedly were convicted in 2022 of fraud,
14:38tax evasion, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
14:42Now, a lot of people, obviously right from the IRS, you said they're a reality.
14:46So, I mean, they probably with reality shows, they tend to pay pretty good.
14:55They probably came into some money, didn't know what they were doing.
15:00They may have hired a shady accountant to deal with their, you know, book work and their
15:07money and their taxes.
15:09And, you know, you're the one that signs on the bottom line on the taxes.
15:14The accountant isn't on the hook.
15:16You are.
15:17Yeah.
15:17Well, according to their, uh, you know, the, the attorney there, Alex Little, uh, he had
15:24also said that he supplied president Trump with a binder filled with court documents and
15:30testimonies to convince him to release the couple.
15:32Uh, but I mean, obviously, you know, president Trump in his own nature, uh, seeing the documents,
15:40obviously looked at the set of evidence and thought that it was necessary to, to, to basically
15:45set the pardon.
15:46Yeah.
15:47Yeah.
15:47So, I mean, my question, Joe would be like, you, you just mentioned like shady, shady people,
15:52right?
15:52Uh, shady tax accountants, probably, uh, people that were handling, uh, you know, obviously their
15:59show, the production, all that stuff.
16:02So, I mean, you can't, I don't know, I don't know how much of it's their fault for not, but
16:09again, you don't pay attention.
16:11You don't keep up with it.
16:12Again, the bottom line is you're the one on the hook and ask Wesley Snipes, how well that
16:19sovereign citizen shit goes over.
16:22Oh God.
16:23He got to pay your taxes or you go to jail.
16:26You're just ask Wesley Snipes.
16:28Wesley Snipes even said that in the latest expendables, expendables movie with, uh, Stallone.
16:34He's like, uh, what are you in for?
16:36He's like tax evasion.
16:37He said his own, they made a joke out of it.
16:40Right.
16:41Right.
16:41Yeah.
16:42And I mean, I don't blame, I don't blame Julie and Todd Chrisley, uh, even though all the
16:50outlets out there, including NBC news, uh, MSNBC, uh, they're calling them disgrace reality
16:58TV star, how they disgrace.
16:59Come on.
17:00Again, you don't know the whole inside stuff.
17:03Yeah.
17:03Bottom line though, is still your name goes on the taxes.
17:08You can bring in the tax accountant if you get audited to try and justify.
17:13But if you didn't read your return before you sign it and say, yeah, I approve all this stuff.
17:23You are on the hook.
17:25So yeah.
17:25How much fault they bear or not?
17:30I don't really know.
17:32Well, according, according to the article that I wrote, uh, I read, uh, this morning
17:37on NBC news, uh, they literally put that header on their disgrace reality TV stars of
17:44Todd and Julie Chrisley convicted in a scheme to squindle banks out of tens of millions of
17:49dollars, literally walked free from prison, uh, yesterday, Wednesday morning after we're
17:56pardoned by president Trump.
17:57Did they?
17:58I don't know, uh, this reporter might be right, but you know what I also suspect since they're
18:05Trump supporters is they were targeted.
18:09Well, they, I mean, obviously, I mean, you know, these, these, these natives of Nashville,
18:15uh, you know, uh, which the law firm, uh, came out of Lidson, uh, PLLC, uh, that actually
18:23handled this case, uh, is saying that the Trump's of the South, I love that little header, by
18:31the way.
18:31Yeah.
18:31Again, that makes my point.
18:33If these people were liberal cock can cackling the Kamalunist, the Kamalunist supporters,
18:41probably no charges, just nothing to see here.
18:47Nothing to see here, folks.
18:48Because they're Trump supporters, they maybe even fabricated additional charges like they
18:55did with Trump and the tax, you know, it's a high possibility.
19:01The same thing secretions.
19:03James is likely going to go to jail for.
19:07She, without a doubt, without a doubt.
19:10I mean, you talk about like rageful heat and anger against the president with, with, with
19:15her.
19:16Trish and James signed paper saying her father was her husband.
19:21Uh, what?
19:22Her brother was her husband.
19:24I think, was it the brother?
19:25No, her father, her father in that case, right.
19:28It's Ilan Omar who married the brother, but yeah.
19:32Now once could be a mistake in paperwork and you just overlook it twice.
19:38Then it's suspicious.
19:40Three different cases where she's, she lied and claimed a primary residence that's not
19:49in New York, but claimed to be then a New York resident when she ran for office.
19:56Once a mistake, twice gets suspicious.
19:59Three times, uh-uh, three strikes, you're out.
20:02You're a liar.
20:03You're a fake.
20:04You're a fraud.
20:05I don't need to see more evidence.
20:07Well, Joe, check, and guys, check this video out.
20:10This is actually the daughter of, uh, Julie and Todd Chrisley, uh, that is actually speaking
20:15out and a, and I, and I, and I, and if I may, a very large, uh, Trump and MAGA supporter,
20:22guys, uh, check this.
20:23I am absolutely freaking out.
20:26I was walking into Sam's con today and I get a text that says, do you have a minute?
20:33And I'm like, yes.
20:34And like, I just felt in my soul that something was going on.
20:38Something was different.
20:39Something was wrong.
20:40She's certainly not horrible to look at.
20:42And I get a text that says, all right, we're calling from the office line.
20:46I'm like, okay.
20:47And I answer the phone and they said, hi, um, the president would like to speak with you.
20:53And I literally, my whole body went numb.
20:56I'm freaking out.
20:57Like the president of the United States of America wants to speak with me.
21:00Donald J.
21:01Trump freaking out.
21:02I start sweating profusely all over, literally.
21:05Um, and I answer the phone and it's the president and I'm freaking out.
21:11I just immediately started crying.
21:13I'm sitting in my car, bawling my eyes out.
21:15Grayson actually has a video of it.
21:17And I didn't know what to say.
21:20All I could say was, thank you.
21:22All I, and if anyone knows what we were going through, it was the president.
21:26The president was.
21:27Yeah.
21:28Let me stop it right there.
21:29I mean, first of all, before you go there, Joe, I, I, you know, I, I understand you guys
21:34are, you know, well-known now popular here in the United States because of this incident,
21:38but, uh, uh, sweetie, get rid of the duct tape.
21:42That's on your microphone there on, on your jacket.
21:45You see the duct tape, Joe?
21:46Yeah.
21:46She's got duct tape, man.
21:48The duct tape.
21:48Is she supposedly a reality TV star?
21:52Joe, Joe, she was probably looking for something like to improv something last minute.
21:57I get it.
21:57You know what?
21:58You know, to my point earlier, Nicolas Cage is another classic example.
22:05Got himself into IRS trouble because shady accountants, he signed off on it and he got
22:14charged with tax evasion.
22:16He settled out of court to not go to jail.
22:20And, you know, that's why now he does virtually any script that comes his way.
22:26He says in part because he really loves acting.
22:29And the other reason is he still holds millions of dollars in back taxes.
22:34He holds a lot, Joe, of back taxes.
22:40I mean, you know, that's another one.
22:42I mean, but like, let's play, you know, let's play fair here.
22:46I don't want to be too biased and show two, you know, two forms of favorability to one set
22:51of actors and reality TV shows.
22:53But like all these people, like what the hell's wrong with them?
22:57They're going crazy.
22:57Like they're going mad, you know?
23:00And again, if you're on the right, and especially if you're rah, rah, rah Trump all the time
23:08out there with the MAGA hats and the MAGA shirts, you know damn well you're going to be a target,
23:16dumbass.
23:17Make sure all your I's are dotted and your T's are crossed.
23:21Yeah.
23:22Well, like look at what more she's saying here.
23:26I mean, she's ecstatic that her parents are, you know, free from prison.
23:30Obviously, you know, the charges were not heavy enough to stick, but this is more of what
23:35she has to say, guys.
23:36Check more of this out.
23:38It's pretty fascinating.
23:39When he's making a decision, he looks at the case and he looks at the facts of the matter
23:44and sees injustices or doesn't, and then makes his decision.
23:50And I am forever grateful for the decisions that he has made.
23:54And I just, I can't, I'm still on cloud nine, trying to get all my thoughts together, trying
24:00to figure out when I'm going to pick up my parents.
24:03I want to say that the fight doesn't stop now.
24:07Trump signed the pardon, unlike Biden and the auto pen.
24:12Trump, but Trump appointed a black woman, as well as some other attorney that he was
24:22going to, Ed Martin, that was going to appoint to something else.
24:26Him and her are the pardon czars who go through all, review all the potential pardon cases and
24:35then send them to Trump.
24:36Trump then makes a final decision, but, you know, he takes their word.
24:43I can't, I'm sorry.
24:44I can't remember.
24:45You got the, you got the bubble stuck up there, Joe?
24:48You can't.
24:48Yeah.
24:49It was a black woman who he pardoned in the past for something.
24:54He, you know, cause she was saying, you know, I'd love to be involved cause other people
25:01deserve pardons also.
25:03So him and I think it was Ed Martin are the pardons czars.
25:08Yeah, I know.
25:08I know who you're talking about now.
25:09And they're constantly reviewing.
25:11Oh God.
25:11Yeah.
25:12Yeah.
25:12Yeah.
25:12I mean, they're, they're right on the, on the track, but you know, here's something
25:15that we could say about the Chrisleys, right?
25:18The TV show guys, Chrisley know best.
25:22Obviously they know best because the pardons worked out great for them, you know?
25:26So they should, they should, okay, joke, jokester, Joe, you're going to chime in.
25:32Chrisley.
25:32It sounds like Nestle.
25:34They should come up with their own chocolate milk.
25:39Yeah.
25:39Yeah.
25:40Or water.
25:41Well, we've got to be careful with that show.
25:43You know, copyright, yeah.
25:44Copyright infringement.
25:45They got to be careful.
25:46Chrisley, Herschley.
25:47Right.
25:48I mean, it does kind of Nestle.
25:50Yeah.
25:50Nestle.
25:51Yeah.
25:51Yeah.
25:51Yeah.
25:51It's got the L at the L E Y.
25:54The Lee.
25:55Right.
25:55Yeah.
25:55But, but listen to this, listen to this after, uh, you know, Alex little, the attorney for
26:01the Chrisley said in an interview that he did not know why Trump chose to pardon his clients
26:07this week, but as part of his pitch, little also went into saying he supplied Trump's
26:14pardon, uh, for the, the, the pardons, uh, czar, right?
26:19Alex Johnson, which is the pardon czar of the department with a binder full of those court
26:25documents.
26:26Yeah.
26:26And it also states this, Joe, that president Trump also feels focused on the issue of criminal
26:31justice because he has been a focus of investigations that were directed at him.
26:37We know what wasn't a factor.
26:40Yeah.
26:41Quid pro quos.
26:44Unlike president auto pen by dumb who staffers were lining their pockets, selling pardons
26:53that they then auto penned in.
26:55Well, yeah.
26:57Spare me that that didn't happen.
26:59That's a conspiracy theory.
27:02Well, it will take a few years to iron out.
27:06Well, Joe, evidence is there.
27:08Joe, Joe, remember everything we discussed here earlier in the program, right?
27:12With Trump being that target.
27:13Right.
27:14I mean, obviously he was a convicted felon who was found guilty last year by a New York
27:20city juror of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up his hush money, uh, payments
27:27to stormy Daniels.
27:28So I, and still we're not getting legal, you know, it is legal, but we're not getting the
27:32end of it.
27:33We're not getting the end of it.
27:34Remember John Edwards.
27:36Remember Bill Clinton, all paid mistresses, hush money campaign funds.
27:43Yeah, yeah.
27:44So despair me.
27:48Thank you for having tuned in for Christatushalist Politics season three, episode 105, airing
27:59June the 21st, 2025.
28:03Uh, as I said, at the top of the show, clearing up my season, uh, folly and confusion, but I
28:15wanted to at least give you a snippet of it to see the full Savaged Unfilter Chris Lee
28:23Knows Pardons episode, season six, episode 60, go to my YouTube channel or to savagedenfilter.com.
28:35See the catalog, see that whole show.
28:39I didn't want to air the whole hour and balloon this episode, but thank you for tuning in.
28:46And I hope you understand why I felt it was important for political targeting and weaponization
28:53of offices.
28:55And they may have been guilty of tax evasion, but there's some gray areas, you know, you
29:01take bad advice.
29:02At the end of the day, you're still the one responsible for the taxes that you owe.
29:10Whether someone tells you, gives you bad advice, oh, no, you don't owe them.
29:15We're going to, right?
29:16The wealthy all have tax attorneys that shelter a lot of their income, but they can afford to
29:24pay a team of attorneys if audited.
29:28That's why usually it's the poor and the middle class.
29:32Those 87,000 IRS agents that were hired by the Democrats weren't to audit rich people because
29:43the rich people can afford teams of attorneys to wiggle out of things and squeeze every penny
29:50of tax deduction they can get.
29:53You and I can't hire thousands and, you know, spend tens of thousands of dollars on attorneys
30:01to avoid paying a few thousand dollars in taxes.
30:05So when they audit us, they target us because they know we'll have to knuckle under.
30:11We either pay 2,500 more in taxes or pay $10,000 to an attorney.
30:17Well, it's more economically viable, even though I don't really owe the taxes to just say,
30:24okay, I'll pay or I'll pay $1,500 as a settlement, right?
30:31At any rate, that's why I felt it important, and I should have said this before the episode,
30:38to air part of that episode again, savagedarmy.com, Savaged Unfiltered on Spotify, iHeartRadio.
30:46You can find Season 6, Episode 660, Christie's Knows, Pardons, play off their reality show,
30:55apparently, which was Chrisley Knows Best.
30:59I'd never seen the show.
31:01I'd never heard of them before.
31:04It's not really about them why I talked to you about them today.
31:10I just explained why this relates to us average people.
31:16We could be targeted like they were.
31:19At any rate, thank you all for tuning in.
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