Our current POTUS has clearly done some very bizarre things since he’s been in charge this second time around. One of those things is the continuing attempt to “sue himself” to create a $1.776 billion slush fund of taxpayer money–the 1776 name was not accidental– that he can tap into whenever he chooses to send taxpayer-funded money to many (if not all) of the January 6 rioters he has already pardoned.
Also, to use with and for his own family fortunes, essentially, permanent avoidance of income tax audits for the Trump family. It is one of the most bizarre and brazen attempts ever made by a governmental official to steal money from the American public.
Even though several judges have already ruled to kill the project, like a “Bizarro” Superman, the project is apparently not yet dead and gone. There is a strong chance it will be aggressively salvaged as one of the new assignments for the just-approved U.S. Attorney General, Todd Blanche.
Apparently, the days of chasing master criminals like Al Capone, etc., are long gone, and the Department of Justice is being turned into President Trump’s personal law firm, according to many current political analysts.
Specifically, the POTUS is having the Justice Department go to court to sue the U.S. government he is in charge of for $10 billion.
And then directing the DOJ to settle the case and to establish a billion-dollar payout fund (slush fund) he can use to send money to former January 6 rioters.
Another end result of the suit is supposed to be no future tax audits and investigations of Trump family finances. This is an attempted corruption scheme of the first order; it’s like never before seen in American history.
Mr. Trump and his people have kept so many public irritations going on at the same time that there seemed to be a decent chance that this wholesale theft of the public purse would slip by unnoticed. This was – and is – a “Keep the Customers’ Eyes” on the sleight-of-hand movements so they won’t notice at least one of your hands in their pockets.
Well, fortunately, there has been some judicial astonishment and response, not just of the scheme itself, but its bravado and its scale, including a federal judge strongly admonishing the Justice Department for attempting a “fraud on the court” (presenting a case in which the plaintiff is identical to the defendant, and then asking for a summary judgment to reward both). In fact, one federal judge submitted Todd Blanche’s (the new Attorney General) name to a legal ethics committee for an investigation of whether the new Attorney General should lose his law license for being in charge of presenting such a (fraudulent) case in federal court.
Clearly, while there is still real fear that Mr. Trump will use an executive order to send federal troops (or I.C.E. police) into states to seize ballots and interfere with the November 2026 elections; a continuing set of attempts to force his name and likeness onto prominent American buildings; a continuing attempt to subvert famous American institutions like the Smithsonian Museum into deleting all references to important Black and Latino contributions to American history; a consistent attempt to decrease major federal funding to HBCUs, and other continuing high-jinks, as part of a wholesale assault on American progress, it all sometimes just seems to be a giant Ponzi scheme to make more and more money from American taxpayers. Mr Trump more and more seems to be projecting the image of a super con man out to fleece the American public, and also the image that this time he cannot be stopped.
