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.
Clickbait title, with a massively editorialized article. The only thing of substance is the multi-paragraph quote from politico.
Still shit, but nowhere near the hyperbolizing superlative that the article/title frames it as.
Edit: one thing I notice is that since they set the claims process to end in December 2028, that indicates that they know there’s at least a possibility they won’t be reelected.
Maybe they haven’t rigged the elections as much as they want us to believe?
Thanks for that. Most commenters (me too) got totally triggered by that stupid headline, but this is fucking disgusting. But I’m getting tired of going into details with this admin, because even if one or two things it does aren’t completely evil, that cannot change my final judgement. But having somebody extract the main points helps, thank you again.
Also for ending on a positive note. It’s not naive to believe this shitshow will end rather sooner than later, and doomerism doesn’t help.
Yeah, it really bothers me. Especially stuff like the DailyBeast and MidasTouch. They’re just so clickbaity and editorialized, hyperbolizing and spinning and just in general not being good journalism.
Like, there are so many factual and accurate ways to criticize the current administration. Let’s just stick to the facts and avoid reactionary sensationalism, because that just discredits all the legitimate critique. It’s a lot harder to argue with someone when they’re used to hearing that kind of bullshit and tuning out anything that sounds remotely similar.
And then whenever I call out bad journalism, disinformation, logical fallacies, or other bad-faith arguments, people attack me as if I’m attacking the position itself and not the presentation of it. I might support socialism, but if someone frames it in a way that does more harm than good I can critique their framing of it without disagreeing with the overall conclusion.
But a lot of people really seem to lack that nuance. It makes it really hard to have an intelligent discussion without being flooded with strawman arguments in response, arguing against points that I didn’t make.
I guess it’s the price we all pay for getting our news for free. And I don’t say that lightly.
But a lot of people really seem to lack that nuance.
Yeah I feel you. But hasn’t that always been the case with people?
As far as politics go it’s always going to be worse in a 2-party system, though. Around here, most people are used to having different-but-not-completely-different opinions. But many hunger for American-style gamified politics regardless. Once again, I blame Big social media and its algorithms.
I’ll save you a click:
Clickbait title, with a massively editorialized article. The only thing of substance is the multi-paragraph quote from politico.
Still shit, but nowhere near the hyperbolizing superlative that the article/title frames it as.
Edit: one thing I notice is that since they set the claims process to end in December 2028, that indicates that they know there’s at least a possibility they won’t be reelected.
Maybe they haven’t rigged the elections as much as they want us to believe?
Thanks for that. Most commenters (me too) got totally triggered by that stupid headline, but this is fucking disgusting. But I’m getting tired of going into details with this admin, because even if one or two things it does aren’t completely evil, that cannot change my final judgement. But having somebody extract the main points helps, thank you again.
Also for ending on a positive note. It’s not naive to believe this shitshow will end rather sooner than later, and doomerism doesn’t help.
Yeah, it really bothers me. Especially stuff like the DailyBeast and MidasTouch. They’re just so clickbaity and editorialized, hyperbolizing and spinning and just in general not being good journalism.
Like, there are so many factual and accurate ways to criticize the current administration. Let’s just stick to the facts and avoid reactionary sensationalism, because that just discredits all the legitimate critique. It’s a lot harder to argue with someone when they’re used to hearing that kind of bullshit and tuning out anything that sounds remotely similar.
And then whenever I call out bad journalism, disinformation, logical fallacies, or other bad-faith arguments, people attack me as if I’m attacking the position itself and not the presentation of it. I might support socialism, but if someone frames it in a way that does more harm than good I can critique their framing of it without disagreeing with the overall conclusion.
But a lot of people really seem to lack that nuance. It makes it really hard to have an intelligent discussion without being flooded with strawman arguments in response, arguing against points that I didn’t make.
I guess it’s the price we all pay for getting our news for free. And I don’t say that lightly.
Yeah I feel you. But hasn’t that always been the case with people?
As far as politics go it’s always going to be worse in a 2-party system, though. Around here, most people are used to having different-but-not-completely-different opinions. But many hunger for American-style gamified politics regardless. Once again, I blame Big social media and its algorithms.