Hermann Göring-level contempt

Now it’s no longer taboo, in light of mountains of evidence in support of the comparison, to refer to Todd Blanche, Stephen Miller, Lyin’ Ted, MAGA Mike, Hegseth, Lutnick, Bessent, RFK Jr,. Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, Trump and his accursed spawn, as Nazis.  Nazis will be Nazis, and they always act the same way — indomitable and contemptuous of so-called decency (Hitler called conscience a “Jewish invention”).  The contempt Trump and his best people proudly show for law and the ideals our country was founded on was not exceeded by the most infamously contemptuous of the Nazis.  Think Hermann Göring.  They have all demonstrated that they will follow any insane order from their mad leader, justify protecting a network of pedophiles, a nationwide chain of concentration camps, every voter suppression effort imaginable and the cold blooded murder of American citizens in their cars, on the street.

It’s not even a news story, apparently, when these floundering fascists (in this case Trump, Blanche and Trump’s children) openly defy a federal judge’s order to produce their argument for why their fake “settlement” of a non-case, for their sole, corrupt benefit, was not a fraud on the court. June 12 was the deadline for Trump and Blanche to defend their corrupt, bogus, self-dealing “settlements”. I was very much looking forward to reading their stuttering, incoherent arguments. No argument was submitted at the deadline.

[Correction, there was a submission, not responsive to any of the judge’s three major questions Trump/DOJ were required to answer, though it was submitted late on June 12 (after closing time, apparently). I learned this from Michael Popok on the Meidas Touch network. Bloomberg alone seems to have reported on Trump’s denial of fraud and his attack dog lawyer Alejandro Brito’s attack on the judge, as well as the 35 retired federal judge’s who intervened to remind the judge she still had jurisdiction over the “case”. I haven’t been able to find a copy of this legal masterpiece on-line.]

The Trump DOJ essentially in contempt of a federal court order produced crickets from mass media. No real update on the story since Trump and his DOJ followed federal appellate judge Emil Bove’s advice (from before his lifetime confirmation, when he was number 3 at DOJ) and told a federal judge to go fuck herself. AI had this to say (incorrectly, as it turned out, apparently they filed it late on June 12th)

Absolutely nobody but Michael Popok at Meidas Touch is reporting on this, as though this eye-poppingly criminal conspiracy to defraud the court to further enrich the historically corrupt Mr. Trump is not a subject of even minor public interest.

Of course, in fairness to everybody — there were so many other stories demanding attention in the realm of Trumpish impostures. News broke about a panicked damage control meeting in the Situation Room (secretly, and illegally, recorded by someone there) to strategize about how to protect Trump for accountability for the many wonderful secrets he shared with his best friend, suspiciously suicided incarnation of evil Jeffery Epstein. The demented birthday boy yesterday used the Lincoln Memorial, which his gigantic Arc de Trump will dwarf and obscure the view of from Arlington National Cemetery, as a backdrop for his glorious gladiator fight in a $60,000,000 (including $700,000 to restore the damage to the lawn) cage built on the south lawn of the White House to celebrate his birthday. He gave UFC fighters the honor guard pomp usually reserved for foreign dignitaries and the funerals of top military commanders.

Workers took his name off The Kennedy Center, as ordered, with Trump kicking and screaming, incoherently litigating and in the end demanding an extra 12 hours to do it, but a huge curtain remains in place so nobody can photograph the absence of the insane orange two year-old’s name. He promised, again, that a big birthday deal with Iran is being signed, He bombed Iran, a nation he bombed with no legal justification and has continually branded the aggressor, in coordination with his friend Netanyahu, who he now describes as a difficult man. Meanwhile, the troubling theocrats in Iran continue to be much more credible on the subject of “peace talks” than the Orange Polyp and his chorus of performative liars.

Trump and his lackies are spraying the firehose of mendacity, with the insane Tulsi Gabbard, friend of Assad and Putin, suddenly chiming in about US biolabs in 30 countries, including Ukraine, that Fauci is somehow responsible for. Trump is madly posting gibberish every moment he’s awake, even as he continually falls asleep in public and appears to be dying — though 22 doctors recently signed off on his bill of perfect health. He has the heart of a 65 year-old, we are to believe.

His MAGA suck-ups in Congress also snuck through, at 4 a.m., another 70 BILLION dollars for his masked shock troops who will not be required to abide by the US Constitution. ICE will continue to wear masks, break car windows, illegally enter homes, schools, courts and churches without judicial warrants, indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, keep them in abusive privately owned concentration camps kept secret from the public, even murder American citizens on video, when necessary and proper.

So, I suppose we can forgive the press (and thank Bloomberg and Meidas Touch) for not taking a single note of his missed June 12 deadline for Trump to explain to the court why he should not be punished for filing a fake lawsuit against an agency he controls, and giving himself and his accursed children (and all of their associates) a preemptive pardon for all past frauds on the IRS/US Treasury in a “settlement” worth probably hundreds of millions for a long history of tax chicanery. All I can say is “USA! USA!!!” Trump looks more fucked every day.

The ear, and other Trumpish frauds

As we wait for Trump’s former criminal lawyer to explain, under oath to a federal judge in Florida, why Trump’s suit as a private citizen, against an executive branch agency he controls, was not conspiracy to commit a fraud on the court, I am reminded of a couple of Trump’s other “under the radar” frauds. This one in Florida is a huge one: $1,776,000,000 fund to pay rioters and klansmen and part two — retroactive immunity for Trump, family and all associates for any IRS audits. Today is the deadline for Blanche to put in writing how this “settlement” wasn’t a fraud on the court — and the American people. Now on to two low-flying, but stinking, Trumpish frauds nobody has done anything about.

I know it seems impossible that an American president would lie about an assassination attempt on himself, perhaps even set it up himself, but that pre-convention shots fired at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally has always had a very bad smell.   It did to me at the time, immediately.  The suspicious timing of it, itself, was highly suspicious, as was every other detail.  Of course, Trump exploited his enraged rhetorical ecosystem to ensure his fake enemies would be too cowed to publicly question, let alone denounce, the stunt that left his bullet scarred ear intact.  To suggest that a man, even Donald Trump, would stage a deadly shooting seemed indecorous and disgusting — we all condemn gun violence and have a cultural instinct to support the victims who survive it.  Trump has won many rounds of the propaganda war this way, preemptively accusing his enemies of things he’s planning, conspiring to do, carrying out secretly while crowing about the transparency of his criminal regime.

Have you looked at the ear that was sliced (or smeared with fake wrestling blood behind the podium when Secret Service took him to the ground) when God stretched out His mighty arm to spare His chosen presidential candidate by a fraction of an inch and merely kill one of the faceless supporters seated behind him?   The killing of that Trump supporter (I wonder if the dead man’s family got a fraction of what rioter Ashley Babbitt’s mom and Mike “Lock ME UP!!” Flynn got) was needed to prove deadly fire, rather than staged fake deadly theatrics, and the man’s death established the deadliness of the shots fired, without a doubt. 

Them was deadly bullets that whizzed by POTUS 45 — without touching him, of course, because God protects Christ’s representative on earth (millions of the faithful actually believe this shit with unalterable faith).  Then the young assassin, known to be a poor marksman, seconds after he fired the deadly shot, was shot multiple times in the head, blowing his head completely off his body, and shortly thereafter, cremated.  No medical records on the “near fatal” shooting of the former (and sickeningly future) president.  No investigation, nothing thing to see here.  Only respect and sympathy from his high minded opponents for a man “almost killed”.   Check out his fucking ear.

The same goes for Trump Magic Ear’s miraculous, God-delivered victory in all seven swing states in 2024. For a candidate who didn’t win 50% of the vote to take all seven swing states, by virtually identical margins just above the margin that triggers an automatic recount, would take a miracle — or some kind of high tech manipulation of electronic voting data. He won a few swing states where he was the only Republican on the ballot to win anything. The state elected all Democrats, and still, Trump, by a margin that triggered ! If that isn’t proof of God’s will, I don’t know what is.

The problem in the fight between decent people and indecent ones is that cheating psychopaths have a huge public perception advantage. You can’t question a fake assassination, or a highly suspicious rigged election, without looking like the very psychopath you oppose, somehow. I don’t really get it at this point, when the man who told 30,000 documented lies during his first administration now hits that total every week, but there it is, somehow.

You don’t fight bullies by becoming like them, you fight them by standing up, looking them in the eye, calling them out for the violent cowards they are.  The bully’s terror is being unable to get people to fear him.   I understand the fear of a powerful bully with an army of heavily armed goons and a goon squad of debased, unethical lawyers and other enablers.  I get the reluctance of good people to be subjected to the hideous reprisals, including lawsuits designed to target you as an enemy and bankrupt you.  Having these petty, illegal, occasionally murderous, acts done in his name delights someone like Trump.  He can dish them out in massive portions, with no fear for himself since lackeys are always in the line of fire, physically and metaphorically, and the only bullets that will ever come near him are the ones he himself arranges in his pro-wrestling fake “Reality TV” presidency.

Another recent shot of the ear, and America’s incredibly weak “strong man”:

In the words of the great George Lopez — fuck that puto.

Sports in a corporate culture

Trump sat behind bulletproof glass at Madison Square Garden with his fellow self-made son of a billionaire James Dolan. The cheapest seat in the building, outside of the suite of free luxury box seats provided to Trump, Lutnick and co., was the $1,500 standing room ticket NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani bought for himself. The average ticket price was over $10,000, maybe over $20,000 — VIP courtside seats were over $50,000 each.

The NBA championship brings in obscenely HUGE dollars for the owners and their corporate alter-egos. The NBA commissioner himself welcomed Trump’s visit that closed down ten square blocks around MSG, imposed TSA restrictions on the fans wealthy enough to attend the game and created even more traffic pressure and chaos in the already choked center of downtown (not to mention the loss of a ton of money for local businesses). Here’s NBA commish Adam Silver, from a blandly apolitical take on ESPN (owned by Dolan?):

Though Trump and high-profile basketball stars such as LeBron James have exchanged social media barbs over the years, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the president was a “genuine Knicks fan” who was “welcome” at the most-anticipated NBA game in New York since the Knicks’ last Finals appearance in 1999.

“What makes sports so special, especially when there’s so much that divides people, is that it’s something we have in common,” Silver told ESPN’s “Inside the NBA” during a pregame interview. “We should look for those things we have in common and build off that.” source

Inspiring words from this handsome corporate rascal:

Son of a billionaire invites another son of a billionaire to shit on New York

Self-made billionaire genius James Dolan, whose billionaire father, Charles, bought him the NY Knicks [1] and made him the head of his business empire (think young Donald and his dad, Fred) invited Donald J. Trump to be his guest in a luxury box in Madison Square Garden to watch game three (and maybe four) of the Knicks-Spurs championship series. The Knicks are chasing history, in position to tie the longest postseason winning streak on the way to winning a championship for the first time since 1973. The Knicks franchise has been handicapped by the idiotic and impulsive Dolan’s epic failures and tantrums over the last thirty years or so.

Security for game three at Madison Square Garden will be a nightmare for Knicks fans tomorrow night (paying fans — tickets for the cheapest seats are $9,000 — are already being rapaciously gouged by Dolan, of course [2]). Those with tickets to see the game are advised to arrive at least two hours early and carry nothing with them. A throng of joyous New Yorkers won’t get to watch the game live on a giant screen outside the Garden on Seventh Avenue where thousands have assembled for each of the first two games — out of security concerns for Trump and his entourage. New Yorkers have been celebrating, as their team has been dominant in the postseason and a championship is in reach for the first time in more than half a century.

The smart, selfless play of this well-balanced, indomitable Knicks team, their collective cool under fire, is a living illustration of the power of teamwork and trust in your abilities as a group, has brought great joy to New York City during very ugly times for our country. This team embodies the best in us, smart, calm, skillful, each doing their part to help their teammates and advance their mutual goals.

Dolan and Trump are built differently, being both born very stable hereditary geniuses who rule their kingdoms with a mighty, supremely entitled, hand. They don’t believe in community, teamwork, the common good, sound advice or anything else. They believe only in their own abusive quest for glory and immortality. It is natural that the hated son of billionaire Charles Dolan would inflict something as disgusting as Trump on New York City at this exciting moment for New Yorkers. No joy is too small for a billionaire egomaniac to shit on by publicly licking the ass of another billionaire egomaniac. Dolan cut to the front of the line of those billionaires ready to pleasure the demented president. Whatever happened to “fuck you” money if you can’t ever have enough not to line up to blow an insane autocrat in hopes of a few million more bucks?

Trump, who will be greeted with thunderous boos from the crowd he is fucking by his attendance, is always delighted for the chance to slip his puckered mushroom into a willing, wealthy receptacle. He’s indicated that he’s tickled by Dolan’s invite and intends to go to game three of the NBA championship, and maybe game four as well.

Leave it up to fucking James Dolan, hated by Knicks fans for his decades of disastrously stupid decisions sabotaging the Knicks and betraying their fans. A series of impulsive, boneheaded decisions, temper tantrums, idiotic hirings and firings, all based on billionaire James Dolan’s belief that he was born for greatness, his wealth is proof of his genius, and that his excrement is delicious. You can look this piece of garbage up on the internet for the details of what a supreme asshole he is in his personal and professional life. Here’s a word about how much this despicable blowhard is hated by Knicks fans:

Knicks fans have called for Dolan to sell the team, and Dolan banned one fan from attending games for imploring him to sell the team.

He has also used facial recognition to prevent those involved in litigation against him or his companies from attending events at venues he runs.

ESPN reported in November [2023] that Dolan resigned from the NBA’s finance and media committees, saying in a memo, “Given all that has occurred lately, I have come to the conclusion that the NBA neither needs nor wants my opinion.” source

So, naturally, Dolan saddles up in his private bomber, tanks filled with excrement, and, at the perfect moment, unleashes a tide of liquid shit on Knicks fans, on all of New York, because that’s what self-made billionaire geniuses always do, don’t they? Somebody give this asshole a chainsaw to swing over his head at the celebration of his glorious Knick championship. I wonder if they already have the next Trump “assassin” in place at the Garden to make this community-bonding moment during game three about who it is really about — two fly-encrusted turds, born to rule.

The despised Dolan invites America’s Hitler (according to JD Vance, before his temporary, transactional conversion to MAGA) as the living repudiation of what sports fans all over the country are watching. This Knicks team represents camaraderie, teamwork, calm under pressure, nobody trying to be The Man, trust in teammates, a sense of balance, getting timely, important contributions from all. What do Trump and Dolan represent? Spoiled, disgustingly wealthy (based on their inheritances) brittle, “self-made” “rugged individuals” who rule by sheer will, impervious to good advice and blaming everyone else for the predictable results of their stupid decisions. These are two of the most thin-skinned, incompetent jackasses ever to disgrace their respective positions.

Dolan’s grotesque invitation makes perfect sense in the morality play we are all doing our best to survive. Dolan and Trump certainly deserve each other, but New York and the world don’t.

[1] AI is good enough for this assclown:

[2]

Hannah Arendt speaking to this moment

Nothing is more dangerous to nature and humanity than an inability to think.    This inability to think is deliberately, mindfully fostered by those who make the most money, and seize great power, when  people can’t think.  Without critical thinking it is impossible to choose well between complex alternatives, to accurately identify problems in the first place, to protect ourselves from predators. 

A populace that can’t think is ideal for manipulation, many of them will be ready to tolerate or commit atrocities for an incoherent “cause”.  The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, as Francisco Goya the painter observed.   Here’s Hannah Arendt, who clearly identified this central villain of human history, from a few generations ago.  

American children raised watching TV, and devices, see more than 10,000 hours of advertising, tailored to their baby minds, before they learn to read. Today attention spans are shattered, brains and social interactions rewired, by constant smartphone notifications from people trying to sell something, push some idea, inoculate the “user” against critical thinking by amplifying their own prejudices and likes and silencing opposing ideas. The algorithms that cater to our personalized prejudices are making a small number of neuroatypical men unlimited billions of dollars as they emotionally and intellectually immiserate billions of vulnerable human beings.

We are at the “mercy” of psychopaths at the moment. Only we, by acting together and thinking as critical problem solvers, can stop these merciless, insane bastards who would have everything. They will own everything even if it takes destroying the earth itself, the biosphere, all the animals and all but a handful of specially selected humans who will live on militarized luxury islands, in outer space or in well-furnished spas deep under the ground. Fuck those putos.

Trump’s legal talent, and deal making brilliance

The proud, the few, the fewer and fewer, Trump’s increasingly less competent Department of Justice. Trump’s childishly vindictive reign — he is our retribution, after all, as promised — (and, arguably, America’s punishment for centuries of racism, slavery, mass murder of the indigenous people, sexism, tolerance of pedophilia, consequence-free rape and so on) requires the unquestioning loyalty of unprincipled men and women (almost overwhelmingly white and almost all born male) who will do literally anything for proximity to power.

If a law needs breaking, they must be prepared to defiantly break it. If an honest answer to the court will make the boss look bad, and hamper “his” vengeful, cruel and illegal “agenda” — lie. As federal appeals judge for life Emil Bove instructed his attorneys going into court to defend the illegal detentions and deportations of several hundred men, be prepared to say “fuck you” to nosy federal Judge Boasberg if he tries to push back against illegal government tactics. Thousands of career lawyers in the Department of Justice have either been forced out, fired (scores for prosecuting January 6 rioters or working with Jack Smith — same with FBI agents) or demoted for lack of, I don’t know the German word for it, unlimited zeal for the Leader’s every corrupt and vicious whim. The New York Times notes:

Things have gotten so ugly with the openly corrupt Trump/Charles Koch/Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society agenda, and its in-your-fucking-face AI generated dump of tons of excrement on America, that even the NY Times has felt empowered to be a little saucy with her headlines. Picture the clucking, matronly tone of voice delivering, after the pause indicated by the comma, ” and it stings.” Shaking her head, pitying you: “it stings, doesn’t it? I know, the truth hurts…”

Any judge ruling against the president’s/Project 2025’s “agenda” is deemed a dangerous, sick, partisan hack activist judge. Here’s former Krisi Noem spokesperson, from a few months back, when she defended the unconstitutional practices of the Department of Homeland Security:

In February, then–DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin explained away the administration’s dismal record by saying that “many activist judges have attempted to thwart President Trump from fulfilling the American people’s mandate for mass deportations.” source

We, you and I, elected Mr. Trump (by a landslide and, coincidentally, a victory, by almost identical margins, in all seven swing states) and gave him a mandate to open a nationwide system of brutal concentration camps to house millions of “illegals” of all ages (and the five year-olds are as dangerous as the 75 year-olds, aren’t they?).  That’s exactly why we put the man in power, isn’t it?  That’s democracy and if you don’t like it, GEO group has a nice, damp cement cell you can share with twelve other cucks, with a nice bowl of maggot-filled mush twice a day if you’re hungry.

You see, people like Trump, Koch, the insane chainsaw wielding Musk, hate fueled zombie Stephen Miller, can NEVER BE WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING.  You must understand this.   They are capable of committing unthinkable acts to never be wrong, to prevail, to try to bring about the triumph of their will.  

Trump can muse at a news conference about how weird it would be to sue himself, then a few months later he can sue himself, settle with himself (with a deal that ends all IRS investigations into years of his tax fraud, and his family’s — retroactively, prospectively and in perpetuity) and attack the judicial process that calls bullshit on his bullshit. 

If it comes out of your ass, sir, and it smells like shit, and when you smear it on the wall it looks like shit, it’s unlikely to be anything else.  The same goes for the excrement that pours out of your pie hole, sir.

When the judge in Trump et al v. The Internal Revenue Service saw Trump quickly withdraw the baseless, fraudulent lawsuit the day before the judge would have dismissed it as a baseless, fraudulent lawsuit — and thrown out the clearly fake “settlements” that Trump claims ended the suit, she noted in her decision that no settlement had been filed with the court, as is required. The two-part “settlement” only came out after Trump dismissed the case against himself.

Undaunted Trump’s lawyers, the Acting Attorney General most prominent among them, insisted over and over, in public, that the illegal seizure of almost two billion dollars in taxpayer funds to compensate Trump allies and innocent victims of Biden’s DOJ vindictively prosecuted and convicted, or forced to plead guilty, to Trumped up charges of breaking into the Capitol, assaulting police, respectfully defecating in the halls of Congress, chanting “Hang Mike Pence” after constructing a gallows outside the Capitol, assaulting those defending the joint session of Congress as members and their staff fled for their lives, conspiring to bring weapons across from Virginia for a fully armed assault, etc. was completely above board, He also defended the second half of the “settlement” released the day after the slush fund was created, the one that said the IRS can never investigate Trump for anything, ever. Blanche claims that his order that the IRS will never investigate any person or entity associated with Trump, his children or the Trump organization is 100% legal and binding, now and forever. He also claims it does not give anyone “blanket immunity”. I have to say, Blanche is a fucking moron, though one must admire his doglike brazeness, I suppose.

When the judge reopened the case to hold a hearing on the clear fraud on the court and the conspiracy to bring about these fake “settlements”, after a filing by 35 retired federal judges of urged her to do so [1], TACO Trump immediately withdrew the slush fund — though Blanche, as pathetic a suck up as I’ve ever seen in politics, insists his order that the IRS never investigate anyone related to Trump will stand for all time, and that there is nothing foul or in the least bit irregular or suspicious about the order.   Just don’t hold it too close to your nose.

[1]   35 retired federal judges were not having this shit, and their motion to the judge who consented to dismissing the case is worth reading in its entirety.  It is beautifully written and perfectly argues a flawless point, the judge who dismissed the case is legally permitted to, and must, reopen Trump’s fake case for a hearing on a fraud against the Court.  The next day she did.  Trump’s “answer” to conspiracy to commit fraud on the court is due on June 12, two days before the handsome rascal turns an athletic eighty years old.  I told a nurse yesterday that I plan to celebrate my birthday by hosting a cage match on somebody else’s lawn. Hey, if you can do it, why not?

If you work for a cheating psychopath…

People have to do things they may not want to do to please their boss, particularly if your boss is an unreasonable, demanding asshole. When your boss is Donald Trump, you sometimes are asked to do extreme things, illegal things. If you do them, you keep your job (for the moment). So you do things like this:

Federal judges have been accusing [Trump DOJ] prosecutors of misconduct, most recently in a case last week in Chicago in which a grand jury indicted six people, including a Democratic congressional candidate, for interfering with a federal agent and conspiring to interfere with a federal agent at a protest at a detention facility.

As Julie Bosman of the New York Times reported, U.S. District Judge April Perry dismissed the case after she discovered that prosecutors had talked to individual grand jurors outside the courtroom and removed those jurors who refused to indict, as well as apparently overstating the strength of the evidence against the defendants. After making these maneuvers, the prosecutors then tried to hide evidence of them by redacting the transcripts from the grand jury. source

In an extremely rare DOJ case ruled vindictive prosecution, the court found that the Trump DOJ had brought a baseless criminal prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in order to punish him for exercising his rights in court, and beating a team of Trump’s lackies to vindicate rights they clearly violated.  Here is former DOJ prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explaining vindictive prosecution to Dean Obeidallah.

So it’s no surprise when ambitious scumbags, working for a criminally insane boss, file a fake lawsuit and make a fake “settlement” (as the fake lawsuit is about to be dismissed as a fraud) to defraud US taxpayers out of almost $2,000,000,000 and finance an army of loyal violent white men who have already demonstrated their willingness to gouge the eyes out of police officers to serve the illegal wishes of the man who brought the fake lawsuit and established the slush fund to pay them.

35 retired federal judges were not having this shit, and their motion to the judge who consented to dismissing the case is worth reading in its entirety.  It is beautifully written and perfectly argues a flawless point, the judge who dismissed the case is legally permitted to, and must, reopen Trump’s fake case for a hearing on a fraud against the Court.  Here’s the introduction:

On May 18, 2026, this Court dismissed this action with prejudice in response to Plaintiffs’ Notice of Voluntary Dismissal with Prejudice, filed earlier that day. The Court expressly noted in its Order dismissing the case that “the Notice does not reference any settlement or include a stipulation of settlement,” and thus “there is no settlement of record.” The Court further noted that Defendants “neither submitted any settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed.”

The Court was deceived. Despite Plaintiffs not having mentioned any settlement in their Notice, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) publicly announced a “settlement” of this action shortly after Plaintiffs filed their dismissal. That “settlement” commandeers the contrived sum of $1.776 billion from the United States Treasury, to be handed out to recipients chosen by a commission effectively controlled by the President. The DOJ is calling this the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

The day after the “settlement” containing the Anti-Weaponization Fund was announced, the DOJ announced that it had subsequently agreed to release “any and all claims . . . whether presently known or unknown, that—as of the Effective Date of the Settlement Agreement—have been or could have been asserted by [the United States] against any of the Plaintiffs or related or affiliated individuals . . . or parties . . . by reason of, with respect to, in connection with, or which arise out of . . . any matters currently pending or that could be pending . . . before Defendants or other agencies or departments.”4 The plain language of this extremely broad provision sweeps in Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) audits of Plaintiffs’ tax returns and all other claims the United States might have against Plaintiffs—extraordinary benefits for which no consideration was provided to the government.5

The parties to this case are using this lawsuit as the legal justification for these actions. This is not speculation; the parties themselves have proclaimed it, repeatedly. For starters, the DOJ implemented all of the actions described above via a document expressly titled “Settlement Agreement,” captioned with this case’s caption, plus a three-paragraph addendum that references that “Settlement Agreement” in its first paragraph and in its third paragraph purports to “forever bar[] and preclude[]” the United States from pursuing claims that could have been asserted “by Defendants against any of the Plaintiffs” in this case.6 The “Settlement Agreement” was signed by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward the same day Plaintiffs filed their Notice; in fact, Plaintiffs’ filing of the Notice was expressly required by the “Settlement Agreement.”

The addendum granting the extraordinarily broad releases to the President and his family and businesses was signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche the next day, May 19. Yet none of the parties filed either of these documents with the Court. In addition, shortly after announcing the “settlement,” the Acting Attorney General issued an order creating the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” That order—which references the “Settlement Agreement” in this case—explicitly identifies the Judgment Fund statute, 31 U.S.C. § 1304, under which Congress has authorized appropriations for payments of settlements against the United States, and 28 U.S.C. § 2414, which authorizes payments of “final” judgments against the United States including compromise settlements and “imminent” claims, as the statutory bases for the creation of the AntiWeaponization Fund. Payments purportedly made pursuant to these statutes in the absence of a genuine case or controversy are not authorized. Movants submit that this “settlement” is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the
Court.

The initiatives  [see below] are part of an effort by Mr. Trump to honor himself while commemorating the nation’s 250th birthday.

(great line from today’s NY Times, referring to Trump’s glaring face on the new $250 bill, his signature on all paper money, more sycophants lapping from his capacious tush)

E.J. Carroll at the time of the sexual attack Trump lied about and defamed her over