Democratic senator wants IRS to investigate conservative student group for holding large event

“According to press reports and social media posts, many participants gathered and mingled indoors without wearing masks, in violation of Palm Beach County’s COVID-19 regulations,” Whitehouse wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig on Tuesday.

Whitehouse is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight of the IRS.

“In holding these ‘superspreader’ events, Turning Point USA knowingly exposed hundreds of young people and staff working at the events to serious risk of infection,” Whitehouse said. He also referenced a fundraising event at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Club hosted by Turning Point.

“In light of these actions, the IRS should review whether Turning Point USA should continue to enjoy its tax-exempt nonprofit status,” the Democratic senator.

An article by The College Fix noted that zero coronavirus cases had been reported three weeks after the event. Palm Beach County officials and the convention center that hosted the student activist conference still have not responded to our requests for information on if the event turned out to be a superspreader event.

The letter to the IRS cited no evidence that the event turned into a superspreader event nor that anyone was harmed by the event. It only cites an article saying that the event could lead to a spread of coronavirus infections.

Whitehouse said that the conservative group violated its nonprofit policies by putting “children and others at risk” by allegedly violating coronavirus regulations. The event “was clearly contrary to the public good.”

The letter does not describe how children were put at risk at an event aimed at high school and college student activists, nor at the fundraising event aimed at adults.

I thought they would have Lerner^H^H^H^H^H^H learned something from the last time they tried this nonsense.