The IRS settlement, where Trump settled with himself while not allowing a judge to review the settlement agreement (by dropping the case and then just announcing there was a settlement), was a flash-bang in the news cycle. It was everywhere. And now, it's not. There were two main provisions of this so-called settlement. What received the most attention was the slush fund. It was such blatant self-dealing. Almost 2 billion dollars would be doled out, allegedly to J6 insurrectionists, but with zero transparency so no one would actually know if the funds went to those criminals or the ones running the government like Trump himself. It just so happened that when organizations started suing and filing FOIA requests to force transparency, the administration dropped the fund all together. I think they always knew how explosive the slush fund would be. And I think it may have been intentional; call it a win-win—either Trump and his friends get to rob the treasury of billions of dollars, or…
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