Heads, Trump Wins
When you wake up on the day of your first appearance on America’s favorite quiz show, you will have more knots in your stomach than a quipu, the tied-string recordkeeping device used during the Inca empire. You will take a nervous walk through beautiful, weatherless Culver City, California, where the title song of Singin’ in the Rain was shot during a water shortage. Perhaps you will stop for a $14 juice at the boutique grocery store Erewhon, telling yourself that you have to spend money to make money. From the entrance of the Sony Pictures lot, you will be conveyed to the “check-in area” in the back of a dim parking garage; you will wonder whether this is actually some sort of hostage situation that is going to end with you at the bottom of a tar pit or, worse, on Wheel of Fortune.
TL;DR
- Donald Trump's personal lawsuit against the IRS has been settled by the Department of Justice.
- A new $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund will be created using taxpayer money from the Judgment Fund.
- The IRS is now barred from auditing previously filed taxes of Trump, his family, and his companies.
- The Anti-Weaponization Fund may compensate individuals involved in the January 6th Capitol riot, among others.
- Trump has claimed he was not involved in the fund's creation, despite his lawyers negotiating the settlement.
- The settlement is seen as a way for Trump to allocate funds for his political and personal aims, potentially rewarding allies and supporters.