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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Top IRS Lawyer Under Fire for Anti-Trump Bias plus POTUS Scores Major Win as NY Court Slams Excessive Fine
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But I've never received so many phone calls thanking me for what we've done in Washington, D.C. from people that haven't gone to a restaurant in literally in four years. Sarah, now I take my wife and my kids to dinner. It's a great tribute to you. And when I look at you people, I understand why. Because they there's no games, right? We're not playing games. We're going to make it safe. You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Friday morning. So nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. We've got three big stories for you this morning coming out of the White House. First up top, IRS lawyer under Donald Trump pledged to resist the president. And now we know he was a former Democratic aide. And that's not all he said. We'll give you the story of the deep state fighting back yet again. Also, in a predictable but very important move, the New York appeals court has thrown out the half a billion dollar penalty against Donald Trump and the Letitia James civil case. So is she going to back down? I'll give you the details on that as well. And finally, the Biden administration for years knew that they were packing swing states with illegal immigrants. Just how many are there in these states? We, we've got the numbers now and it's truly shocking. All right, I want to take a moment talk about the economy. You've been seeing what's happening on Wall Street. You've seen what's been happening with interest rates and you've probably seen gold prices hitting all time record highs. Why? Because there is uncertainty all over the world right now. And when there is uncertain times, you want real answers about your financial stability. Well, at Kurt Elliott Precious Metals, you get more than gold and silver. You get trusted guidance from a team that puts people first, always. 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The court argued this IRS lawyer, Anthony Sacco, he is a top IRS lawyer involved in quote, high level policy interpretations and has advocated action to resist President Trump and holds radical, far less left policy positions pushing for Democrats to abolish prisons, for example. And anytime you don't get the ruling you want at the Supreme Court, just pack the court to quote, defy Trump. Anthony Sacco is an attorney for the powerful IRS Office of Chief Counsel. He's openly advocated for far left positions for years prior to joining the agency. This coming from a daily wire review of his social media that has been found. Sacco, who holds a key role in interpreting complicated federal tax law, has called for people to quote, resist the GOP and attacked the police. Sounds exactly like what you would get in the Democratic Party from socialist communists and Marxists Right now, Sacco has co authored multiple revenue rulings, including as recently as April 17th of this year. That would be three months into the Trump administration. Revenue rulings are official IRS interpretations of how tax laws are applied in specific situations and impact how government officials or government officials, I should say tax professionals and also you the taxpayers maintain compliance with federal law. Now. Before joining the IRS In September of 2022, the by the Biden administration, Sacco worked under the Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden for the Senate Finance Committee. That's according to his own LinkedIn profile. His social media activity demonstrated a strong opposition to President Trump and his administration. In 2020, for example, he attacked Republicans ahead of the Senate vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, saying this the Republican Party has completely obliterated principles, integrity and norms. Screw going high. Pack the court, resist hashtag GOP election, hashtag vote, hashtag pack the court now. Shortly after all of this came out, the Daily Wire reached out to Sacco for comment on his previous views. What did he do? Exactly what liberals always do. He locked his X account restricted who can see his posts but not before the Daily Wire archived and saved all of them. Sako did not respond to the inquiry. Briefed on the post by the Daily Wire, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton said Saco should be fired immediately. With deep state leftists in its leadership, it's no wonder the IRS has repeatedly targeted conservatives and conservative organizations. Cotton said to Daily Wire. This individual should be fired immediately. Sacco is currently one of the main attorneys like not low level, not mid level. One of the top docs, right. The main attorneys, the IRF chief counsel office who specializes in looking to at pass through businesses a tax structure where owners are taxed at the individual rate than corporate levels. The revenue ruling he drafted in April, for example, withdrew one he had written under Biden which increased regulations on certain business partnerships. It was based on an executive order from Trump ordering his administration to cut unnecessary regulations, meaning a advocate for resisting Trump was left responsible for putting his orders into effect. Fact. According to one senior Republican aide who worked on finance issues in the Senate, Sacco's office was views as politicized as a politicized office in the financial policy world. It was for example behind plans that would supercharge the IRS beyond its curtain current form. The aid pointed to the IRS push for a quote direct file program that was approved by the chief counsel's office during the Biden administration, which Republicans argued would have turned the IRS into a tax preparer, tax collector and tax enforcer. The idea that a far left resistor who helped the Biden's IRS set policy is now setting policy for Trump is deeply concerning, the aide told the Daily Wire, adding that the treasury secretary, Scott Bessant, should clean house to get his politicization of the office out. Here's something else that was said. I'm not surprised he said those far left things because that's how this is operated, how the Chief Counsel's office has operated, the aid added. We shouldn't trust left wing ideologues at the IRS in light of their weaponization of the agency during the Obama and also the Biden administrations. Now outside by the way of social media, Sacco helped prepare a lengthy academic article arguing that prison should be abolished. It was published by the Harvard Law Review. In the forward, the primary author argued that, quote, white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric of every legal institution in the United States of America. America. So in other words, if you're black, you should be able to commit any crime and not have to worry about the consequence. Apparently, based on what the Harvard Law Review has In a post discussing his work on the project, Sacco contemplated the future of criminal justice in America by writing this it was truly amazing to work with Professor Roberts and my fellow RAs on this piece over the past summer. It's not easy to imagine society without prisons, but I look at the prison system and mass incarceration completely differently now after this experience. The author of the article also wrote that there is, quote, good reason to renounce the Constitution because constitutional law has been critical to upholding the interests of the radical capitalist regime while advancing legal theories that justifies its inhumanity. The article that he was a part of also said this. Indeed, it is the realization that white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric of every legal institution in the United States and upheld by the US Constitutional law that made me an abolitionist in the first place, the author added. Sacco, by the way, also frequently posts anti police messages on his account, including a call for the Colin Kaepernick Neil guy. Remember that guy? Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback that Neil during the national anthem? Yeah, that guy. To, quote, abolish the white supremacist institution of policing. And another post that claimed policing is based on race and that the job itself is racist if you are a policeman. So how does that work? Just out of curiosity, if you're like Asian or Hispanic or black, like, are you a racist cop if you were those races? Like, I'm just asking for a friend, I want to know Saco's account, by the way, now locked. Because this is what the left does, right? They get caught saying what they believe and then they shut it down. They don't stand by it. No, no, we're gonna, we're gonna lock it down. And states he's currently focused on tax policy, racial and criminal justice. The irs, by the way, has not respond to requests for comment on SACCO status at the end at the agency. And this goes back to the point that I said earlier in 2016. I don't think Donald Trump understood just how many people hated him. I don't think he realized how much the deep state had dug into our government. This guy's a great example of that. And how many people are like, oh, we can just undermine Donald Trump anytime we want to, like, we don't have to, to worry about Donald Trump. We will just wait him out. We'll undermine every single thing that he does. And when we do that, then we will still win eventually because we're not going anywhere. That, my friends, is the problem with all of this. Next story number two. All right, an appeals court, and this is big news. A New York appeals court has thrown out a $500 million penalty against Donald Trump. Letitia James, that crazy, insane civil case, it's another story and another big victory for the President, United States of America. The court ruled that this was an excessive fine that actually violated the Eighth Amendment. Yes, it violated it. And that's exactly why they said no. The appellate court throwing out the 500 million dollar civil fraud penalty against the sitting president in this, quote, high profile case brought by that radical leftist New York Attorney General. Now, remember when she was running for office, what did she say she was going to do? She was going to make sure that Donald Trump knew her name. She said, if you vote for me, I'm going after Donald Trump. And that's exactly what she did. And when she went after Donald Trump, she also fundraised off of it, saying, give me your money. I'm the one trying to lock up Donald Trump. Well, now we have real justice. The New York Appellate Division overturning the penalty ruling that this was egregious, it was an excessive fine that clearly violates the 8th amendment. The five member panel all upheld findings that Trump and his companies were liable, affirming that James acted within her authority and that this, you know, injunctive relief to curb Trump's organization practices as they described it, were appropriate. Now, remember, this is a liberal court, but here's the other part you need to understand. The ruling leaves liability intact, but eliminates the massive financial penalty of 364 million-plus interests, which actually rises to around 500 million. Trump took to Truth Social to declare, quote, a total victory and railed against James and the original trial judge, you may remember him, as Arthur James. Claimed a win too, of course, because the left always does that. Noting that the appeals court upheld the findings of fraud and restrictions on Trump's businesses and she pledged to appeal the penalty decision. Total victory, she said, is fake news. Yes, Trump, there you go. That's who she's going after. Here's the other thing that was interesting. Listen carefully. Quote, I greatly respect the fact the court had to the courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful decision was hurting businesses all throughout New York State. Others were afraid to do business there. The amount, including interest and penalties, was over 550 million. It was a political witch hunt, the President said, in a business sense the likes of which no one has ever seen before. The court, by the way, agreed with the President on that. Trump also blasted the case as election interference, saying it was tried during the 2024 presidential campaign, locking him up in court instead of out on the campaign trail. He also praised Justice David Friedman, who issued a partial dissent. Friedman wrote that James true aim was political and argued the entire case should be dismissed. He said her ultimate goal was not market hygiene, but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump's political career and the destruction of his real estate business. Freedman also blasted James use of section 6312 of New York's executive law, which gives the state attorney general broad power to pursue civil fraud claims. He wrote that it was unprecedented and political, giving James essentially limited less power to prosecute her political opponents, which if you go back to her own words, that's what she said she was going to do. Elect me, vote for me, keep me in office, send me your money, and I'm going to lock up Donald Trump and his family. Friedman wrote that Trump's business deals involved sophisticated parties who by the way, profited without harming the public and concluded he would reverse the judgment and dismiss the complaint. Now, section 6312 has never been used in the way it is being used in this case, he continued to write, namely to attack successful private commercial transactions, negotiated arms links between highly sophisticated parties fully capable of monitoring and defending their own interests. Friedman continued, all parties to these private transactions profited handsomely from the deals from which there were no negative effects on the public interest. So this was one of Those like victimless crime. No one was hurt. Everybody made money. And what did they do? They went after the President of the United States of America instead. It's disgusting. And finally, story number three, the Biden administration. We're now learning. PAC swing states with over 1 million illegal aliens. Why? Solely for a power grab. In just two years into his first term as president, President Joe Biden's border policies helped welcome more than a million illegal aliens to the nation's electoral swing states and additionally some 450,000 illegal aliens into Texas alone. The latest Pew Research center estimates. Specifically, look at the rate at which Biden increased the illegal alien population in a two year window from 2021 to 2023. Notably, the Biden administration packed swing states with more than a million illegal aliens during those two years, with likely many more resettling in such states from 23 through 2024. In particular, the swing state of Florida saw its illegal alien population grow BY A staggering 700,000 in just two years under President Biden. Another example of just how much they wanted to pack this country with illegal immigrants to change the electoral map completely is Georgia. Georgia, not even close to the border with Mexico. Well, their illegal alien population grew by more than a hundred thousand. Pennsylvania and Michigan each added at least 80000 illegal aliens to their resident populations in 2021 and 2022. North Carolina is another great example as a swing state added a hundred thousand plus illegal aliens from 2021 and 2022. And Ohio adding almost 75000 more as well. Arizona added 50000 illegal aliens in the two years of the first two years of Biden administration. Nevada and Wisconsin each absorbed 30000 illegal aliens during that first two years. Colorado, which has rapidly turned blue in the last decade, saw more than 40000 illegal aliens added to its population in 2021 and 2022. If you look at the total population of some of these states, this is a massive increase. And then look at New Hampshire for example. They have a population of 1.4 million. They added more than 10,000 illegal aliens in the first two years of the Biden administration. Now, why is this so significant? The Biden administration knew what they were doing and they knew they were overseeing a massive surge of illegal aliens in non border states that would help them when it came to redistricting and to how many representatives different states receive based on population. They knew that illegal immigrants were going to be counted in the census. And that's exactly why when the barbed wire was put down at the Southern border. In Texas, Joe Biden sent in what, forklifts to raise it up to allow more illegals into the country. You look at illegal aliens in New Jersey, for example, which election predators say could become a swing state over the next 10 years. In Texas, a GOP stronghold, the Democrats have long sought to flip to their side. Texas alone, during the first two years, the Biden administration absorbed about a half a million illegal aliens in just the first two years under Biden. Now, New Jersey saw an influx of more than 150,000 illegal aliens during that same period. The Pew Research center estimates that the illegal alien population also had a record in 2023 under Biden at more than 14 million. Now, again, this was in 2023. Scholarly estimates from years prior suggest the illegal alien population today in 2025 is well above 22 million. Which brings us back to reality. Why is Donald Trump doing so much to secure the border? And why is Donald Trump doing so much to make sure the census doesn't count illegal aliens? And why is Donald Trump doing so much to make sure that illegal immigrants are not given the right to vote? So they alter and change our elections? Because he understands what the Biden administration was trying to do. They were trying to pack swing states with well over a million illegal aliens from day one of the Biden administration within the first two years. And what happened after we had an open border policy during those first two years. They then rolled out the red carpet for illegal aliens. They started giving them hotel rooms and credit cards and cell phones and food. They started giving them everything to entice them to flood America. Now, you may ask yourself this question. Why do we not have the numbers after 2022? Because there's so many people we're trying to count. There are so many illegal immigrants that are in this country, which goes back to what Donald Trump has been saying since the very beginning. If you don't have a secure border, you don't have a country. And now we understand the plan. The Biden administration said, let's pack the swing states, just like we want to pack the Supreme Court, and then we'll give them amnesty and they'll vote for us forever. And that's exactly why Donald Trump is fighting it so hard right now. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. 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