it is an interesting concept of filing a lawsuit against the government and then negotiating with the people you hired
bet WE lose?
The scale of this President's Corruption
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bet WE lose?
amazing how much our system has changed over the last 50 years...not necessarily for the better.
Well it's not so much that the system has changed but the expectations have. We've relied on politicians acting in good faith for a long time and we're seeing now what can happen when the President just doesn't care about decency/legality and we have a Congress who's unwilling to do anything about it.
This could have all happened at any other point in our history, it just didn't.
Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?
Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire confidence.
After the companies agreed to these shakedowns—sorry, settlements—the fund created to receive donations was dissolved last September. Since then, Senate Democrats have been asking: What happened to the money?Indeed, the library saga combines many of the worst elements of Trump’s imperial presidency all in one project: his use of lawsuits to extort private entities for tribute, his garishly awful decorative and architectural taste, and his Nero-scale megalomania.
Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?
Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire confidence.
newrepublic.com
Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?
Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire confidence.
After the companies agreed to these shakedowns—sorry, settlements—the fund created to receive donations was dissolved last September. Since then, Senate Democrats have been asking: What happened to the money?
Indeed, the library saga combines many of the worst elements of Trump’s imperial presidency all in one project: his use of lawsuits to extort private entities for tribute, his garishly awful decorative and architectural taste, and his Nero-scale megalomania.
Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?
Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire confidence.
$63M is pocket change in the Second Reich's grift game.
It's no longer a swamp ... it's an ocean.
You know it's bad when $63 million looks like chump change compared to the 3+ billion he's already grifted and then the $10 billion he's going to reward himself from the IRS coffers (our money).
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct probe
Chavez-DeRemer is the third Cabinet member to depart during President Donald Trump's second term.
www.nbcnews.com
Ossoff says the new Congress will investigate if the SEC won't. Karma is coming...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
"Fifteen minutes.
That’s how much time passed between the moment somebody dumped more than $500 million in crude oil futures and the moment the President of the United States posted on Truth Social that he was pausing military strikes on Iran. Fifteen minutes. You’d need to be very lucky, or very well-informed, to make that trade. And you’d have to be naïve to think it was luck.
I’ve spent a lot of time in my life around people whose job is to keep secrets, defend them, and — when necessary — die for them. The idea that the movements of a president, the timing of a strike, the decision to call off a war, could be rented out to the highest bidder is not a financial story. It’s a betrayal story. And the evidence keeps piling up.
Let me walk you through what we know, because I don’t think people outside of finance Twitter appreciate how brazen this has gotten.
On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump announced what he called “Liberation Day” tariffs. The market response was immediate and catastrophic. U.S. investors lost $3.1 trillion in a single day. Over the following week, roughly $11 trillion in market value evaporated — an event the history books will record alongside 2008 and 1987. Retirements vanished. College funds evaporated. Small businesses watched their credit lines tighten overnight.
One week later, on April 9, with portfolios still bleeding out, Trump posted the words “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!” on Truth Social and signed it “DJT” — which, by a happy coincidence, is also the ticker symbol for his own company. A few hours after that post, he announced a 90-day pause on most of the tariffs. The S&P 500 rocketed more than 9% in an afternoon, one of the largest single-day gains on record. Trump Media closed up nearly 23%. The President’s personal stake in Trump Media, now held in a trust controlled by his oldest son, gained something on the order of $415 million on a single day.
That’s one day. One post. A half-billion-dollar swing in the family fortune."
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
www.adamkinzinger.com
I wonder why this crap doesn't bother fatpussy the same way Lutnick's sons do?
Glaring lack of posts from the usual maga dullards
in normal circumstances, whatever is awarded to trump will be part of a lawsuit by the Treasury against the company whose employee leaked the tax return. I would imagine there is some kind of clause in the Treasury contract requiring secrecy/privacy.
In normal contractual circumstances like this the S--t normally flows to the "guilty" party. Of course, this isn't a normal circumstance, so who knows.
He isn't suing a company, he's suing the IRS for a leak of his tax returns by an ex-IRS contractor who was already sentenced to five years in prison and whose consulting firm lost all their contracts. This is simply another one of his vengeful grifts to get his greedy hands on OUR money.
Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging fraud
Sun alleges that World Liberty Financial froze the digital tokens he had purchased, locking him out of assets worth as much as $1 billion.
www.cbsnews.com
I don't think you understood...the IRS has a contract with a commercial firm. If that firm does something illegal than Irs has recourse against that firm. Trump does not have privaty against the firm because he filed his return with the IRS..so he has to sue the IRS. But the IRS has privaty of contract with the firm, So the IRS could use the firm for whatever they have to pay trump...
The contractor and his firm have already been severely punished so there is no reason for Trump to sue the IRS to take our money. The contractor will not be paying the IRS back for Trump's greedy theft of our taxes so even if he feels he deserves it, he should be more responsible to the taxpayers - US.
"If Donald Trump wins or settles his lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury, the contractor (Charles Littlejohn) is unlikely to personally pay back the $10 billion, as any payout would come from the Treasury Judgment Fund, funded by taxpayers. The lawsuit focuses on the IRS’s failure to prevent the leak, not restitution from the contractor.
Key Details Regarding the Case:
- The Lawsuit: Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion, claiming they failed to stop a contractor from leaking his tax returns.
- The Contractor: Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, was already sentenced to five years in prison for the leak, which included thousands of wealthy individuals' tax returns.
- Payer Liability: If the lawsuit is successful, the settlement funds would likely come from the Treasury Judgment Fund, effectively making it a taxpayer expense, not a direct reimbursement from Littlejohn.
- Conflict of Interest: Concerns have been raised because, as President, Trump has authority over the agencies (IRS and Treasury) he is suing.
- Settlement Status: As of April 2026, reports indicate that the Trump administration and the IRS are in talks to settle the $10 billion lawsuit.
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This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.
A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.
In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.
Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.
This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
I was just impressed that you were aware of the legal principle of privity of contract. Your analysis would probably be right on the money, although I suppose that Trump might somehow argue that he was a third party beneficiary of that contract between the IRS and another party. It is typically tough to prevail upon such an argument.
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used to run a Defence contract management area office. We managed the contacts for DoD in the Midwest...had to learn about contract law as first words in any conflict were "what does the contract say?"
Saw that in a thread but couldn’t find a source elsewhere FYI. Wouldn’t surprise me for it to be true but just sayin
he was embarrassed by how much he paid in taxes...it's against federal law, his finances were exposed...I don't know. Why is it illegal to release someone's tax returns?
What to Do If Information is Released
If you find your tax information has been disclosed without your consent, you can sue the government for civil damages (minimum $1,000 per violation.
I don’t think he should have had them exposed, it was private. But to argue for more than that 1,000 in civil damages, you have to actually have…been damaged in some way
I know nobody bats an eye at the corruption oozing out of this White House anymore, but that’s ******* insane, and we shouldn’t ignore it.
do you actually follow all these people who you repost or do you search for posts that support your positions?
I've never heard of these people who you repost...am I living in a shell?
Funny how the same people crying Trump is corrupt are the same ones that turned a blind eye and defended Clinton, Obama, and Biden corruption. How many times have you tards claimed he did or said something that wasnt true now? Thousands of times at this point so you are like the kids that cried wolf so many times we wont just believe you because you say so. Ok Ill say it, "maybe you got him this time"?
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This a question specific to him or to the broader board? I ask bc there are MAGA folks on here who spam post absolute nonsense at o dark thirty. Just making sure we are questioning/holding everyone to the same standard.