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The Trump administration is overhauling the Internal Revenue Service’s crime investigation unit to better focus on left-wing groups and donors, people with knowledge of the plan told The Wall Street Journal in an article published Wednesday.

The report lends credence to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat on “The Charlie Kirk Show” to go after dissident political groups, much as the Treasury Department pursued terrorists through its financial networks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bessent called Kirk’s assassination an “internal 9/11.”

The Journal, citing insider information, wrote that a top IRS official has already drawn up a list of potential donors to investigate, including George Soros.

To facilitate the search, officials told the WSJ that allies of President Donald Trump would be installed in the IRS Criminal Investigation division to undermine the work of IRS lawyers in the investigations. Bessent adviser Gary Shapley has said he will replace former IRS-CI chief Guy Ficco and is compiling the list of targets, according to the newspaper.

The operation would bolster overall efforts by Trump and his administration to go after left-wing organizations that the president says are creating chaos in blue cities, the WSJ noted.

Bessent seemed ready to launch such an operation on “The Charlie Kirk Show.”

Citing the pro-Palestinian protests, the secretary said on Tuesday’s episode: “Many of these organizations have been funded by nonprofits, and this will stop. And, as they always say, we’re going to follow the money.”

Neither the IRS nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment from News themezone.

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