Trump DOJ Settlement Sparks Abuse of Power Firestorm

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What the f- Sorry. Yeah, I didn’t. Anti-weaponization fund. Let’s go through this. Trump and his kids and their family business moved to dismiss. Dismiss their federal lawsuit against the IRS. We report on this here on the program. This was in regards to the leak.

of Trump’s tax returns. Trump was the only one, a little under 500,000 people had their tax returns leaked. The Justice Department said, this is the deal, said it would create a $1.776 billion fund to compensate targets of government weaponization.

Now, just so you know, okay, the Trump lawsuit was just about ready to be thrown out.

That’s right. His lawsuit was going to be thrown out. So before it was thrown out, he directed his own justice department, his own justice department to settle.

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Yeah, again, there’s really, I don’t know of any words to really describe this. Some five member commission to run this fund, there was various members of Congress were flipping out yesterday. They wanted to put amendments to this and who could receive.

the money at least, you preventing child molesters from getting it. Yeah, in case you’re not aware, I mean, here in the state of Florida, there’s been several, several people from the whole January six fiasco that have gotten arrested for child porn and other nonsense. And that that amendment was shot down, just so you know.

that amendment to prevent your tax dollars part of this $1.776 billion anti weaponization fund that that amendment was shut shut down.

Really hard, really hard to cover this story. It really is. I gotta grab some points that were made by Jonah Goldberg.

1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new US Constitution that was put together in Philadelphia the year before. The pardon power proved to be a sticking point for some delegates. George Mason, primary author of Virginia’s own Constitution, was among those worried that the unchecked ability to unilaterally pardon criminality

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could lead to abuses of power. Man, these founders were smart. What if the president, quote, may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself?

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Again, we just, you know, Biden pardoned everybody, walking out the door, right?

James Madison acknowledged that this would be serious abuse, but argued, don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it, George. We got that covered. We got a remedy for that. There’s one security in this case to which gentlemen may not have adverted. If the president be connected in a suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him and they can remove him if found.

guilty.

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Yeah, British statesman Edmund Burke famously argued that one of the fundamental rules of a decent society was that no man should be judged in his own cause. And again, fundamental rule, you know, all due respect to Edmund Burke.

You know, thank you, Master the Obvious. I mean, it is. It’s as obvious as obvious can be.

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You’ve got Trump’s personal lawyer who is now the attorney general writing this on behalf of we the taxpayers and settling with the Trump family.

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For the founders, this insight, Burke’s insight, informed the logic of the entire constitutional project. Burke’s observation was so universally agreed upon, it often came up sometimes without attribution in debates at the constitutional and ratifying conventions. Madison invokes the idea in Federalist 10 in the context of faction and the need to have separation of powers. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause because his interests would certainly bias his judgment.

and not improbably corrupt his integrity. Hamilton cites it in Federalist 80 as a reason why federal courts should adjudicate disagreements between states. It was assumed that state judges might be biased toward their own side of the dispute.

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I add to this as well.

that basically there is a one page document that was attached on the Department of Justice website early yesterday, which states that the IRS is forever barred and precluded from pursuing examinations of Trump related or affiliated individuals and related trusts.

and businesses.

the only person, again, this is under the purview, normally under the purview of Congress, or the Attorney General. So he basically said, you can’t audit me, you can’t look at my books, you can do nothing forever.

I watched them try to swallow this this morning on CNBC, and I’m I’m watching, listening to it at the gym. Try to make heads or tails out of this. Joe Kernan is a big super Trumpster here, and he didn’t even know how to handle it. Some of the people are just saying, well, Trump feels that he can just do whatever he wants, and he’s gonna do whatever he wants.

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Everyone kind of just accepted that.

Like that, it’s okay. I thought it was okay. It’s just that like, all right, that’s just the reality.

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Ben Franklin said, you know, it’s a republic if you can keep it. This is Nothing of a republic. This is something that you would see in some sort of tin pot third world Dictatorship Okay, and you know it and I know it. I don’t care who you voted for and I voted for the guy Watchdog on wall street calm