President Trump’s supporters have won Donald Trump’s legal fight against the Trump-controlled Justice Department. Congrats to everyone.
against the federal government he runs, alleging that the Internal Revenue Service mishandled his tax returns and allowed a federal contractor to leak them back in 2019.
This was, essentially, a multibillion-dollar personal lawsuit brought by a multibillionaire president against himself. And for a time, there was quite reasonable concern that he would effectively award himself those damages, since thehas become Trump’s personal legal department for dispensing punitive justice, which is now being led by his former personal lawyer, acting attorney general It turns out that those concerns were misplaced.
Trump’s DOJ isn’t giving him an enormous taxpayer-funded payoff, it’s giving it to Trump’s most committed and beleaguered supporters — like the ones who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump already bulk-pardoned his loyal insurrectionists, and now they may get paid for their trouble, too. , the Trump family’s feud with the Trump-controlled federal government is officially over.
The president has dropped his $10 billion IRS lawsuit, as well as two civil claims demanding $230 million in compensation over the special-counsel-led investigations into his mishandling of classified documents after his first term and the whole Russia saga of his 2016 presidential campaign before that. In exchange, the DOJ is creating up a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” settlement fund to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.
” In other words, it looks like a massive slush fund for people who allege the justice system was weaponized against them, and it just so happens that a lot of those people are allies of President Trump who claim they were targeted over their conservative views.on the settlement and fund that “It remains unclear if the announcement represents a serious effort to disburse cash or a provocative distraction intended to provide the president with political cover as he retreats from a dubious lawsuit he was about to lose, or some combination of both.
”also reports that “it was an apparent effort to skirt oversight by the judge in the case who had expressed concern that the suit represented self-dealing”: The tandem moves amounted to an end-run that stripped Judge Kathleen M. Williams, who had been overseeing the I.R. S. case in the Southern District of Florida, of her appointed role in approving a formal settlement agreement.
By dismissing the case in its entirety, Mr. Trump was able to reach an agreement with his own appointees without risking the rebuke of an impartial and independent arbiter. , Williams, who was appointed by President Obama, had pointed out that the plaintiff, Trump, “is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction.
” Last week, attorneys advising the judge raised concerns about the “fidelity” of the DOJ, andthat the DOJ was working on the settlement fund and a “Truth and Justice Commission” as an alternative way of ending its fight with the president who tells it what to do. , the fund will be pulled from existing funding allocated to the DOJ for settlements; it will be managed by five people appointed by the attorney general and subject to the approval of Trump, and the fund will shut down a little more than month before Trump leaves office.
Trump and his family can’t claim any of the funds. Who else submits claims, and how transparent Trump’s DOJ is about who is deemed eligible to receive them, remains to be seen . House Democrats are already vowing to fight it. It’s just another day in Donald Trump’s America.
Is the president trying to tell us aliens are real by posting inscrutable AI-generated memes to Truth Social? The truth is in here. In the most expensive House primary ever, Trump continues his efforts to crush intraparty opposition despite his general problems with the electorate. Like countless other tacked-on AI chatbots, it repeatedly offered help few people wanted that it was barely equipped to provide.
Representative Tom Kean Jr. hasn’t voted on Capitol Hill since March as he deals with an unspecified medical issue. People at Trump’s Doral golf course better assume a more worshipful attitude, lest he move this thing to his D.C. sculpture garden. Admiral and urologist Brian Christine platformed far-right conspiracies about COVID and the 2020 election on his podcast, per a new report.
The president personally pressed Paramount to revive the buddy-cop comedy franchise and even took Brett Ratner to China to scout locations.published a detailed and unflattering account of Schlossberg’s congressional bid, claims that the political scion says aren’t true. How does the incoming Fed chair’s background signal his approach to inflation, interest rates, and dealing with you know who? How did New York come to spend over a billion dollars a year settling special-education lawsuits brought, mostly, by white parents? *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up.
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