Trump’s latest scheme will go down as the most disgusting in American history
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Because it is such an open sewer of an arrangement, this is the most soul-sucking, despicable, and scandalous transaction ever conducted by a head of state not named Borgia. It dwarfs all the scandals in this country’s history—Whiskey Ring, Crédit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran–Contra. It puts in the shade all the grifting and double-dealing and outright theft that democracy is heir to. Boss Tweed was a piker compared to this guy, and John Mitchell was a Franciscan monk. Most of the crooks and bounders doing their crimes under the color of public office have had the decency to commit them sub rosa and to use (at most) one institution of government at a time. From Politico:
President Donald Trump and the Justice Department have reached a settlement of a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns, ending a case that both perplexed and outraged critics as the president sought to sue the government he runs. Under the deal announced Monday, the Justice Department is setting up a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay claims to people acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called “victims of lawfare and weaponization.” Blanche did not elaborate on who will be eligible for the compensation, but some people who were convicted of crimes in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot have already sued the government. The fund, to be overseen by a five-person commission, will process claims through mid-December 2028—about a month before Trump’s term is set to end.
And, of course, the revisionism is ramped up as well.
Under the settlement, Trump also agreed to drop damages claims he filed against the federal government over investigations into his 2016 presidential campaign’s ties to Russia and the court-approved FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022 as part of a probe into the handling of classified documents, a DOJ statement said. Trump and his family members “will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind,” the statement said.
The statement was silent about whether the IRS had agreed to waive any past or future claims or to end past or future audits of tax returns filed by Trump, his family or his companies. The department acknowledged that language it released Monday detailing the anti-weaponization fund was only “part of the settlement agreement” resolving Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.
I’m sure the other parts of the “settlement agreement” are as sodden as rancid sponges themselves. Sleaze with every squeeze. In addition to the completely corrupt financial elements of the deal, it also is the most lucrative, grift-ridden element of the constant revision of the 2020 election results and the insurrection of January 6, 2021. There will be more of that with the phony “investigations” of 2020 that are going on right now. I mean, my God, Sidney Powell is back in the news flow. I thought we left her about 15 looking glasses ago.
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This travesty is the best indication we have ever gotten into a) how rotten MAGA is to the core, and b) how much the media has capitulated to Trump. 15 years of constant lying and gaslighting , combined with the profit motive, have neutered the media into accepting this. It probably is a great achievement in the annals of the history of evil for him to make such criminal behavior seem normal.
It has a precedent. I warned people about setting precedents.
Obama Foundation Sent Millions Of Dollars To Known Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Network - AOL
Your link does not show Obama sued the IRS and took a settlement.
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How does the Obama Foundation, an organization almost devoid of any federal funding , correspond to a sitting president creating a fund (from US taxpayers) out of thin air in order to reward people who wanted to overthrow our government?
More total failure from you Vic.
How about the other abuses:
GOP: Banks pressured to donate to liberal groups
Holder Cut Left-Wing Groups In On $17 Bil BofA Deal | Investor's Business Daily
spend it as fast as you can maga scum ...
And... The looting of the treasury continues... File an outrageous lawsuit and get Credit Patel to settle before the courts have a chance to throw it out..
What if he doesn't pay the J6ers? What do you think the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers will do?
Trump told a reporter that he "had nothing to do with" the creation of this fund.
that's a big fat lie
Trump says this money will go to people who were "horribly treated" including those who broke into the Capitol and tried to prevent the vote count. The "reparation" these people got and deserved is that they were not shot dead by the Capitol police at the time.
"horribly treated"??? HORRIBLY TREATED?????
Let's ask the Capitol Police who horribly treated. As far as I'm concerned they should all be sitting in a prison cell. For the rest of their lives
And Ashley Babbitt had it coming. There I said it. As far as I'm concerned she lost her right to call herself an Air Force veteran the day she decided to go to DC to overturn an election. She was no fucking patriot. Sure glad I never served with her
Ashley Babbitt climbed through the broken window of a door that was locked and barricaded which her mob mates had tried to bash in . That window was literally 25 ft away from the entrance to the floor of the House of Representatives . If she had gotten in she could have walked to the House floor in five seconds.
Of course the cop was going to shoot her at that point. Period, end of story.
Trump believes that he can do whatever he wants, and his base will continue to support and enable him.
Looking around empirically, that seems to hold water. Every day, we see feeble, sickening attempts to defend this irresponsible charlatan.
There are still a few people here who think Trump will go down in US history as one of the greatest presidents.
The level of irrationality in that boggles the mind.
Legally only parties of the lawsuit can collect settlement funds. Trump & his sons would personally be on the hook for income taxes on the whole $1.8B whether they keep it or not.
Stand by for lawsuits to challenge the legality of a settlement, that's not a settlement.
The ignorance from the left about how they've done this very thing to reward their base is laughable.
If this bothers you, look into your local blue city state machine all the way to the obama/biden presidency.
Yet again, the thing democrats hate most about Trump is uses their tactics.
A fine example of a feeble attempt to defend even this blatant corruption. Vague claim and, of course, purely partisan. With some it is always about partisan politics.
Will you ever recognize wrongdoing by Trump and not deflect to the Ds?
Show us which former PotUS engaged in the equivalent of personally suing the DoJ, as a sitting PotUS, and then settling for almost $1.8 billion which Trump then controls?
Without rampant "whataboutism" some of these people would be entirely speechless.
Is this comparable to your claim yesterday that blue anon was covering up the "progressive" identity of the mosque shooters ?
ouch
Who were the shooters?