No, the US Army’s Delta Force did not seize an ‘IRS Weapons Shipment’ in DC

Fact check

On August 8, 2022, the Real Raw News website published an article claiming that Delta Force, a US military special operations detachment, seized a truck full of firearms bound for the headquarters of the United States. IRS in Washington, DC:

Delta Force seizes arms shipment from IRS

Delta Force operators intercepted an 18-wheeler loaded with guns Monday morning bound for the Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington, DC, a source in Gen. David H. Berger’s office told Real Raw News.

Hours after Kabula Harris’ decisive vote on the regime’s climate, health care and tax bill allowed the IRS to hire and arm 87,000 new agents – to the tune of $80 billion. dollars – a low-profile tractor-trailer left a government-leased warehouse in Jessup, Maryland.

This “report” is a work of fiction, not fact. Real Raw News, which regularly publishes conspiracy-themed fantasies in near-current format, describes its own content as humorous and/or satirical, as follows:

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