Jack, I have to say, that however dangerous, bold and downright evil this plan may have been.. to a degree.. it was clever. I think much too clever for Trump to have constructed it on his own.. but that’s beside the point.
The $10 Billion lawsuit itself set off all kinds of alarms for me and I’m certain, many others. The President of the United States suing his own government and he decides the outcome? Wait.. what?
Some time passes and suddenly he drops it and I wondered why. There had to be a bigger plan. Then suddenly…a $1.776 Billion compensation fund for so-called victims of government weaponization is being created for J-6 participants and it appears to be tied to the now dropped lawsuit that would’ve lined Trump’s pockets. Something wasn’t right here… but I have no legal expertise so I couldn’t put it together but something was off.
As far as the fund goes, I felt it was possibly going to be used to create his own private army… possibly for the midterms or… 2028 when a Democratic candidate wins the presidency and they refuse to certify the election… or any instance where he’s being forced to leave the White House. I’m certain he has no intention of ever leaving. He’s still terrified of prosecution and the presidency insulates him to a great degree.
What you’ve laid out so beautifully here is chilling… I can see why so many former judges and other legal minds have felt it was necessary to step forward no matter how unprecedented those actions are. At this point some damage is already done… but I hope that at least it can be prevented from happening.
I actually feel stunned. I guess what I really hope is that this time… he’s gone too far and it does real damage to his presidency… whatever that may mean.
This is going to keep me up tonight.. at least for a while. I’ll be watching it closely. I’ve already been in contact with my Republican Congressmen expressing my concerns about the fund. I’ll continue that and anything else you think we should do that might influence the outcome.
Thank you, Jack. This is a brilliant article.. so well thought out and articulated.
You did the thing most people don't: you sat with the discomfort...until the shape of it came into focus.
The dropped lawsuit and the fund appearing in its place...you saw the seam between them...and you're right...that the timing isn't a coincidence.
You don't need a law degree for that. You need the willingness to keep looking...AFTER the alarm goes off...and you clearly have it.
The instinct that something was "off" is worth trusting. So is the action you've ALREADY taken. Calling your representatives...especially Republican ones...especially about the fund....is EXACTLY the pressure point that matters right now...and more useful than most people realize.
I won't pretend I have the whole picture either...and I'd hold a few of the darker possibilities loosely until we know more.
But...you've named the stakes CLEARLY...and naming them out loud is how this stays in the LIGHT...instead of the shadows.
Keep watching. Keep calling. And...get some sleep when you can...we're going to need you sharp for a long fight.
Jack is correct that the most important element of this story is not the money. It is the sequence.
Note the structure: a president sues the government he controls. His own agencies. His own appointees. The judge presiding over the case openly questions whether a genuine adversarial dispute is even occurring. The lawsuit is then dropped. Days later, $1.8 billion in taxpayer funds is committed to a compensation structure controlled by political allies. The court is not told a settlement was in the works. Thirty-five former federal judges — Republican and Democratic appointees alike — file a motion arguing the court itself was deceived.
File the date: May 30, 2026. A federal judge has ordered Trump’s legal team to respond to allegations of fraud on the court by June 12.
That phrase — fraud on the court — is not a political characterization. It is a legal one. It means the judicial process itself may have been corrupted. Judges use it rarely and reluctantly. Thirty-five of them used it together.
History offers instructive parallels — and instructive warnings. In the final years of the Roman Republic, public treasury functions were progressively captured by powerful individuals who used legal mechanisms, debt instruments, and private armies to redirect state resources toward personal and factional ends. The Senate retained its forms. The courts continued to operate. The vocabulary of republican governance remained intact. What changed was the direction of the flows — who received public resources, and through what channels, and under whose control. The Republic did not fall in a single moment. It was hollowed from within, one exception at a time, until the forms no longer corresponded to the functions.
Closer to our own history: note what the spoils system, at its worst, looked like. Public resources — jobs, contracts, land grants — directed toward political loyalty rather than public purpose. Congress eventually curtailed it through the Pendleton Act of 1883, after a president was assassinated by a disappointed office-seeker and the country was forced to confront what the patronage machinery had become. The reform came only after the costs became undeniable.
Jack is correct that this is a blueprint story, not a scandal story. The distinction matters. Scandals end. Blueprints get used again. What is being tested here is whether the machinery of litigation — the filing of suits, the negotiation of settlements, the dismissal of cases — can be deployed not to resolve disputes but to move public money through channels that bypass congressional appropriation and normal scrutiny.
Note which institutions are raising the alarm. Not activists. Not partisan commentators. Former federal judges. A sitting judge in Florida. A sitting judge in Virginia, who has already halted the fund’s operation pending further review.
Note which party is beginning to ask questions. Republican Congressman Mike Flood has already publicly separated himself from the fund. When members of the president’s own party reach for the exit, the structure beneath the story is worth examining carefully.
Hannah Arendt observed that the destruction of the public realm does not require the abolition of its institutions. It requires only that those institutions be made to serve private purposes while retaining public names. A court that is deceived is still called a court. A fund built from taxpayer money is still called public. The vocabulary persists. The function changes.
Power studies power. Every future administration is watching whether this mechanism survives judicial scrutiny. If it does, it will not be used only once. That is what every historical precedent confirms — and what is at stake before June 12.
Jane...this is the comment I'll be turning over all week.
You've named the thing precisely: the danger was never the dollar figure...it was the sequence...and...the fact that a sequence can be repeated.
The Arendt line is the WHOLE story in miniature. Institutions don't have to be abolished to be captured; they only have to keep their names....while their function quietly changes.
The one thing I'd underline is what you're already implying: June 12 isn't really about this fund. It's about whether the method is ruled usable. Everything downstream...turns on that answer.
How many times have we heard that? Grab them by the pu$$y did it for me. A few posts back, we were advised to quit doom scrolling. Substack is like having a citizens FBI and CIA in one. So many great people trying to stay on top of the craziness.
I love it that you remember a couple of posts back. Doom scrolling is one recipe assured to suck the pleasure out of life. And, I love this: "Substack is like having a citizens FBI and CIA in one. So many great people trying to stay on top of the craziness." Perfect.
Watching closely now as a stunt this bold, deceptive and dangerously unprecedented in American political history, unfolds before our very eyes in real time.
It strongly appears the ‘weaponization’ may just be another rouse to fund the ‘family’ itself in the long run. Remain aware as more astute and informative articles are published on JHN. So much to absorb and digest here.
Alexa...thank you...and yes, "steady" is exactly the right setting for this one.
You've put your finger on the part I keep circling back to: strip away the "weaponization" framing...and what's left...starts to look a lot like a funding mechanism...with the family at the center.
Whether that's the WHOLE design...or...just one piece of it is what the next few pieces will try to pin down... carefully...because this is the kind of claim that has to be AIRTIGHT to land.
More coming on JHN soon. There's a lot still to untangle...and...I'm grateful to have readers willing to sit with the complexity...rather than reach for the easy version of it.
So, once all business can be conducted by bypassing the court, or any other government requirement for permission, he wouldn't need a legal system any more. Part of his plan would be to eliminate anything, such as the entire legal system, that requires him to either get permission or that would prevent him from executing his plans. He would be the sole decision maker and there would be no "legal" means of stopping him. Wow.
Wende...you've got the DIRECTION right...it's the mechanism I'd adjust.
Almost nobody actually abolishes the courts; it's too visible and too slow. What you do ...instead...is hollow them out: ignore the rulings you don't like...stack the ones you can... starve the enforcement...and route the decisions that MATTER...through channels where no one has standing to object.
The building stays up. It just stops being able...to stop you.
That's the part worth sitting with...because it's both more plausible... and...honestly, more unsettling than outright abolition.
A court that still exists...but can't BITE... gives you the appearance of legality...while quietly removing the substance of it.
"Sole decision maker" is the right phrase. The trick...is that it can be reached without ever formally claiming the title.
Keep pulling that thread, Wende. You're reasoning about this EXACTLY the way it needs to be reasoned through.
Jack thanks for bringing all this to a clear explanation. We all knew this was very odd and most likely corrupt. Drumpf did not dream this up and his loser sons did not either. Someone else laid this out to try and see if they could get this thru the system. Thank god some of the judges had the balls to fight this. We all must see what happens before we lose our minds.
And...you've put your finger on the part that matters most: whoever actually drew this up... it has the look of a TEST.
A trial run...to see what the system will tolerate.
That's exactly why the design matters more than the personalities...a blueprint outlives whoever first sketched it.
You're right...that it took some nerve from the bench to push back...and...I don't take that for granted. What gives it REAL weight is that the pushback came from judges across the spectrum, not one faction.
And...yes...watch closely, but keep your head.
Steady beats frantic every time...and we're going to need clear eyes for a good while yet.
I believe that my RN training is something that has taught me how not to panic and to remain calm in times of stress. I have had to do that so many times especially when I did home health care as it requires you to make decisions based on facts during the circumstances and remain calm for family members when you have to send someone to the ER which is something no-one wants to do. All the flrufru that is out there and the ones that are giving false info. ..you have to see thru the to the facts.
Trump is not calling the shots on this one. I suspect the Heritage Foundation, especially the Project 2025 veterans that infest Trump's administration. If Trump is shown to have perpetrated a fraud against the courts, it will be interesting to see how this plays out politically. I would call to testify, under oath, Trump and Russell Vought. Then expose this for what Jack calls it, a way to bypass congress and put the entire budget into the hands of the Executive Branch.
Everybody is looking only at the money aspect of this “Settlement”.
Yes, it’s not a settlements to begin with.
It’s a buy out.
A legal settlement has to be signed off by a judge to make sure there is full agreement and understanding of the conditions by all parties.
This was a public withdraw of the Issues.
Most of the time it would be agreed to be a dismissal with or without prejudice. But still needing sign off by the presiding judge.
Then the back room quiet agreement happens.
tRump can’t keep his mouth shut and broadcasted the back room deal so that he would get back his MAGA voters with payouts.
***** BUT *****
We are ALL missing the one page MEMO snuck into the Agreement.
The page that gives:
Donald j trump, his family, companies and associates IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FROM THE IRS AND ALL OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES FOR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PROSECUTION OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
Thank you Hexxen. The immunity from prosecution from the IRS is the crux of the story for me.
The balls…
So I called my Republican Senator and left a message, if Trump doesn’t have to pay taxes then neither do I. Then who is going to pay your salary? And where do I file for my piece of the $1.8B?
That strengthens your point all the more. Trump is doing a great job of following the path of strongmen before him who think they are above the law and entitled to plunder.
Hey Jack…. I think this might be a Christ on a bicycle moment?? Damn.
That said, say what you will about t and his minions…. hafta give them credit for exposing all kinds of loopholes big enough to throw the whole GD galaxy through. To date, the US has relied on individuals holding office to practice at least a modicum of integrity. We’ve had mixed results over time but….. nothing like this. It defies belief and exhibits a level of evil genius heretofore unseen in such a high position.
Most people will look at something and say wellllllll….. it’s not ‘technically’ illegal but it’s really unethical and back off. The old just because I can does not mean I should convo with oneself. These people are missing those mindsets. And so…. here we are.
One of the 35 judges is Michael Luttig, I believe. Please, please tell me just why he is not on SCOTUS?? Along with any number of the others pushing back on this sleight of hand?
I have to say I’m at the point where little surprises me any more but I sure can be stunned by the brazenness and outright depraved indifference these sociopaths exhibit. I’m there and kinda angry, too. MY tax dollars fund this, the destruction of the US??? Damn it all to hell, not if I can help it!!
Jack, my immediate impression is that this situation comes down to initial lack of integrity on the part primarily of the person taking the oath for the top executive position, and then of each person, whether appointed, elected, or holding a position by any means. The first time an act of breaching the oath takes place, the Constitution has not been upheld, and proper steps must be taken immediately to officially, as per the Constitution, remove that person from office while barring any future official role ever.
Surely each individual, in each branch of government, can see where his or her own integrity failed to prevail and was lost. Anyone failing to maintain integrity should be put out of office by official means. As you said, “The toothpaste is out of the tube.” What can we do now? Who will own up? Who will hold other individuals responsible as the position held requires? Where do we go from here?
Ken Burns was interviewed recently on MS Now. As he likened our situation to a dog chasing a school bus, indicating that we will survive this situation, he said, “The school bus always wins.” If our Constitution is the school bus, how can we go about winning? We definitely need the highest grade fuel and a strong accelerator with an expert driver full of never ending integrity!
Jack, the new Democratic president on 01-20-2029 will have Jack Smith ready to become his attorney general. He will then take apart the Trump crime syndicate brick by brick! I am hoping the Orange Idiot is still alive but it will be incredible to see Don Junior and Eric and the rest of the parasites end up in prison. I am betting that they will end up in the Middle East in a vain attempt to avoid incarceration!!!
Holy Shit Jack.. the sequence.. once you understand you see clearly what’s happening.. and then you can’t unsee it. Every single day thru this shitshow of a presidency.. thank you Jack for teaching me what to look at and what to look for..
Collusion. Conspiracy. Both sides lying to the court, in tandem. Did the IRS ever file an answer to the original complaint? Or didn't it get that far? Did trump, through his personal attorneys, the DOJ, ever file an actual complaint that had actual claims? Who signed it? Blanche? Old boiled and skinned nuts, himself, who proclaimed to the world that he "loved" trump?
If this was all above board, why didn’t Trump sue Biden’s DOJ? This smells like dead fish because it is. While the courts haven’t said anything is illegal, yet, it’s only a matter of time. Regardless of that, it’s still hinky as hell and is just wrong.
Jack, I have to say, that however dangerous, bold and downright evil this plan may have been.. to a degree.. it was clever. I think much too clever for Trump to have constructed it on his own.. but that’s beside the point.
The $10 Billion lawsuit itself set off all kinds of alarms for me and I’m certain, many others. The President of the United States suing his own government and he decides the outcome? Wait.. what?
Some time passes and suddenly he drops it and I wondered why. There had to be a bigger plan. Then suddenly…a $1.776 Billion compensation fund for so-called victims of government weaponization is being created for J-6 participants and it appears to be tied to the now dropped lawsuit that would’ve lined Trump’s pockets. Something wasn’t right here… but I have no legal expertise so I couldn’t put it together but something was off.
As far as the fund goes, I felt it was possibly going to be used to create his own private army… possibly for the midterms or… 2028 when a Democratic candidate wins the presidency and they refuse to certify the election… or any instance where he’s being forced to leave the White House. I’m certain he has no intention of ever leaving. He’s still terrified of prosecution and the presidency insulates him to a great degree.
What you’ve laid out so beautifully here is chilling… I can see why so many former judges and other legal minds have felt it was necessary to step forward no matter how unprecedented those actions are. At this point some damage is already done… but I hope that at least it can be prevented from happening.
I actually feel stunned. I guess what I really hope is that this time… he’s gone too far and it does real damage to his presidency… whatever that may mean.
This is going to keep me up tonight.. at least for a while. I’ll be watching it closely. I’ve already been in contact with my Republican Congressmen expressing my concerns about the fund. I’ll continue that and anything else you think we should do that might influence the outcome.
Thank you, Jack. This is a brilliant article.. so well thought out and articulated.
#Holdfast
~Susan
Susan...this means more than you know. Thank you.
You did the thing most people don't: you sat with the discomfort...until the shape of it came into focus.
The dropped lawsuit and the fund appearing in its place...you saw the seam between them...and you're right...that the timing isn't a coincidence.
You don't need a law degree for that. You need the willingness to keep looking...AFTER the alarm goes off...and you clearly have it.
The instinct that something was "off" is worth trusting. So is the action you've ALREADY taken. Calling your representatives...especially Republican ones...especially about the fund....is EXACTLY the pressure point that matters right now...and more useful than most people realize.
I won't pretend I have the whole picture either...and I'd hold a few of the darker possibilities loosely until we know more.
But...you've named the stakes CLEARLY...and naming them out loud is how this stays in the LIGHT...instead of the shadows.
Keep watching. Keep calling. And...get some sleep when you can...we're going to need you sharp for a long fight.
#HoldFast.
-Jack
Thank you, Jack.
~Susan
And thank goodness he chose to address this. It’s been niggling at me.
Same here.
Jack is correct that the most important element of this story is not the money. It is the sequence.
Note the structure: a president sues the government he controls. His own agencies. His own appointees. The judge presiding over the case openly questions whether a genuine adversarial dispute is even occurring. The lawsuit is then dropped. Days later, $1.8 billion in taxpayer funds is committed to a compensation structure controlled by political allies. The court is not told a settlement was in the works. Thirty-five former federal judges — Republican and Democratic appointees alike — file a motion arguing the court itself was deceived.
File the date: May 30, 2026. A federal judge has ordered Trump’s legal team to respond to allegations of fraud on the court by June 12.
That phrase — fraud on the court — is not a political characterization. It is a legal one. It means the judicial process itself may have been corrupted. Judges use it rarely and reluctantly. Thirty-five of them used it together.
History offers instructive parallels — and instructive warnings. In the final years of the Roman Republic, public treasury functions were progressively captured by powerful individuals who used legal mechanisms, debt instruments, and private armies to redirect state resources toward personal and factional ends. The Senate retained its forms. The courts continued to operate. The vocabulary of republican governance remained intact. What changed was the direction of the flows — who received public resources, and through what channels, and under whose control. The Republic did not fall in a single moment. It was hollowed from within, one exception at a time, until the forms no longer corresponded to the functions.
Closer to our own history: note what the spoils system, at its worst, looked like. Public resources — jobs, contracts, land grants — directed toward political loyalty rather than public purpose. Congress eventually curtailed it through the Pendleton Act of 1883, after a president was assassinated by a disappointed office-seeker and the country was forced to confront what the patronage machinery had become. The reform came only after the costs became undeniable.
Jack is correct that this is a blueprint story, not a scandal story. The distinction matters. Scandals end. Blueprints get used again. What is being tested here is whether the machinery of litigation — the filing of suits, the negotiation of settlements, the dismissal of cases — can be deployed not to resolve disputes but to move public money through channels that bypass congressional appropriation and normal scrutiny.
Note which institutions are raising the alarm. Not activists. Not partisan commentators. Former federal judges. A sitting judge in Florida. A sitting judge in Virginia, who has already halted the fund’s operation pending further review.
Note which party is beginning to ask questions. Republican Congressman Mike Flood has already publicly separated himself from the fund. When members of the president’s own party reach for the exit, the structure beneath the story is worth examining carefully.
Hannah Arendt observed that the destruction of the public realm does not require the abolition of its institutions. It requires only that those institutions be made to serve private purposes while retaining public names. A court that is deceived is still called a court. A fund built from taxpayer money is still called public. The vocabulary persists. The function changes.
Power studies power. Every future administration is watching whether this mechanism survives judicial scrutiny. If it does, it will not be used only once. That is what every historical precedent confirms — and what is at stake before June 12.
#HOLDFAST
Jane...this is the comment I'll be turning over all week.
You've named the thing precisely: the danger was never the dollar figure...it was the sequence...and...the fact that a sequence can be repeated.
The Arendt line is the WHOLE story in miniature. Institutions don't have to be abolished to be captured; they only have to keep their names....while their function quietly changes.
The one thing I'd underline is what you're already implying: June 12 isn't really about this fund. It's about whether the method is ruled usable. Everything downstream...turns on that answer.
Grateful to have you reading!
#HOLDFAST
-Jack
Finally; a bridge to far!
Crazy, eh, James?!
-Jack
How many times have we heard that? Grab them by the pu$$y did it for me. A few posts back, we were advised to quit doom scrolling. Substack is like having a citizens FBI and CIA in one. So many great people trying to stay on top of the craziness.
I love it that you remember a couple of posts back. Doom scrolling is one recipe assured to suck the pleasure out of life. And, I love this: "Substack is like having a citizens FBI and CIA in one. So many great people trying to stay on top of the craziness." Perfect.
-Jack
Watching closely now as a stunt this bold, deceptive and dangerously unprecedented in American political history, unfolds before our very eyes in real time.
It strongly appears the ‘weaponization’ may just be another rouse to fund the ‘family’ itself in the long run. Remain aware as more astute and informative articles are published on JHN. So much to absorb and digest here.
Thank you Jack. Steady as we go.
Alexa...thank you...and yes, "steady" is exactly the right setting for this one.
You've put your finger on the part I keep circling back to: strip away the "weaponization" framing...and what's left...starts to look a lot like a funding mechanism...with the family at the center.
Whether that's the WHOLE design...or...just one piece of it is what the next few pieces will try to pin down... carefully...because this is the kind of claim that has to be AIRTIGHT to land.
More coming on JHN soon. There's a lot still to untangle...and...I'm grateful to have readers willing to sit with the complexity...rather than reach for the easy version of it.
Steady as we go.
-Jack
So, once all business can be conducted by bypassing the court, or any other government requirement for permission, he wouldn't need a legal system any more. Part of his plan would be to eliminate anything, such as the entire legal system, that requires him to either get permission or that would prevent him from executing his plans. He would be the sole decision maker and there would be no "legal" means of stopping him. Wow.
Wende...you've got the DIRECTION right...it's the mechanism I'd adjust.
Almost nobody actually abolishes the courts; it's too visible and too slow. What you do ...instead...is hollow them out: ignore the rulings you don't like...stack the ones you can... starve the enforcement...and route the decisions that MATTER...through channels where no one has standing to object.
The building stays up. It just stops being able...to stop you.
That's the part worth sitting with...because it's both more plausible... and...honestly, more unsettling than outright abolition.
A court that still exists...but can't BITE... gives you the appearance of legality...while quietly removing the substance of it.
"Sole decision maker" is the right phrase. The trick...is that it can be reached without ever formally claiming the title.
Keep pulling that thread, Wende. You're reasoning about this EXACTLY the way it needs to be reasoned through.
-Jack
Right??
#HoldFast
A circus and a banana republic going on with the regime.
Truth, CC...truth.
-Jack
Jack thanks for bringing all this to a clear explanation. We all knew this was very odd and most likely corrupt. Drumpf did not dream this up and his loser sons did not either. Someone else laid this out to try and see if they could get this thru the system. Thank god some of the judges had the balls to fight this. We all must see what happens before we lose our minds.
#HOLDFAST
Teri
Teri...thank you.
And...you've put your finger on the part that matters most: whoever actually drew this up... it has the look of a TEST.
A trial run...to see what the system will tolerate.
That's exactly why the design matters more than the personalities...a blueprint outlives whoever first sketched it.
You're right...that it took some nerve from the bench to push back...and...I don't take that for granted. What gives it REAL weight is that the pushback came from judges across the spectrum, not one faction.
And...yes...watch closely, but keep your head.
Steady beats frantic every time...and we're going to need clear eyes for a good while yet.
#HOLDFAST
-Jack
I believe that my RN training is something that has taught me how not to panic and to remain calm in times of stress. I have had to do that so many times especially when I did home health care as it requires you to make decisions based on facts during the circumstances and remain calm for family members when you have to send someone to the ER which is something no-one wants to do. All the flrufru that is out there and the ones that are giving false info. ..you have to see thru the to the facts.
#HOLDFAST
Teri
Trump is not calling the shots on this one. I suspect the Heritage Foundation, especially the Project 2025 veterans that infest Trump's administration. If Trump is shown to have perpetrated a fraud against the courts, it will be interesting to see how this plays out politically. I would call to testify, under oath, Trump and Russell Vought. Then expose this for what Jack calls it, a way to bypass congress and put the entire budget into the hands of the Executive Branch.
FULL STOP.
Everybody is looking only at the money aspect of this “Settlement”.
Yes, it’s not a settlements to begin with.
It’s a buy out.
A legal settlement has to be signed off by a judge to make sure there is full agreement and understanding of the conditions by all parties.
This was a public withdraw of the Issues.
Most of the time it would be agreed to be a dismissal with or without prejudice. But still needing sign off by the presiding judge.
Then the back room quiet agreement happens.
tRump can’t keep his mouth shut and broadcasted the back room deal so that he would get back his MAGA voters with payouts.
***** BUT *****
We are ALL missing the one page MEMO snuck into the Agreement.
The page that gives:
Donald j trump, his family, companies and associates IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FROM THE IRS AND ALL OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES FOR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PROSECUTION OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2026/05/forever-barred-and-precluded-trumps-irs-settlement-and-the-architecture-of-federal-immunity/
Copy of actual memo:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl
Meaning he gave himself a Pardon to continue his pillaging.
He thinks this will give him immunity from impeachment if the blue wave happens.
He thinks this will remove the 39(?) felony counts from NY.
No this does not expunge his record.
So YES settlements bad…. But keep pushing the immunity clause too. It’s not bad.
It’s worse.
This is what SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY looks like.
and on July 4th 1776 we told a Sovereign good King George where to put it.
He’s building his HitlerHussein hidey hole in the East Wing for his illegal stay past January 20 2028.
And he will attempt to use this Sovereign Immunity document to place him
ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION.
Thank you Hexxen. The immunity from prosecution from the IRS is the crux of the story for me.
The balls…
So I called my Republican Senator and left a message, if Trump doesn’t have to pay taxes then neither do I. Then who is going to pay your salary? And where do I file for my piece of the $1.8B?
It’s immunity from federal prosecution. Not just taxes.
He and his family and friends get away with everything done, planned and yet to be dreamt of.
That strengthens your point all the more. Trump is doing a great job of following the path of strongmen before him who think they are above the law and entitled to plunder.
Hey Jack…. I think this might be a Christ on a bicycle moment?? Damn.
That said, say what you will about t and his minions…. hafta give them credit for exposing all kinds of loopholes big enough to throw the whole GD galaxy through. To date, the US has relied on individuals holding office to practice at least a modicum of integrity. We’ve had mixed results over time but….. nothing like this. It defies belief and exhibits a level of evil genius heretofore unseen in such a high position.
Most people will look at something and say wellllllll….. it’s not ‘technically’ illegal but it’s really unethical and back off. The old just because I can does not mean I should convo with oneself. These people are missing those mindsets. And so…. here we are.
One of the 35 judges is Michael Luttig, I believe. Please, please tell me just why he is not on SCOTUS?? Along with any number of the others pushing back on this sleight of hand?
I have to say I’m at the point where little surprises me any more but I sure can be stunned by the brazenness and outright depraved indifference these sociopaths exhibit. I’m there and kinda angry, too. MY tax dollars fund this, the destruction of the US??? Damn it all to hell, not if I can help it!!
Jack, my immediate impression is that this situation comes down to initial lack of integrity on the part primarily of the person taking the oath for the top executive position, and then of each person, whether appointed, elected, or holding a position by any means. The first time an act of breaching the oath takes place, the Constitution has not been upheld, and proper steps must be taken immediately to officially, as per the Constitution, remove that person from office while barring any future official role ever.
Surely each individual, in each branch of government, can see where his or her own integrity failed to prevail and was lost. Anyone failing to maintain integrity should be put out of office by official means. As you said, “The toothpaste is out of the tube.” What can we do now? Who will own up? Who will hold other individuals responsible as the position held requires? Where do we go from here?
Ken Burns was interviewed recently on MS Now. As he likened our situation to a dog chasing a school bus, indicating that we will survive this situation, he said, “The school bus always wins.” If our Constitution is the school bus, how can we go about winning? We definitely need the highest grade fuel and a strong accelerator with an expert driver full of never ending integrity!
#Holdfast!
Jack, the new Democratic president on 01-20-2029 will have Jack Smith ready to become his attorney general. He will then take apart the Trump crime syndicate brick by brick! I am hoping the Orange Idiot is still alive but it will be incredible to see Don Junior and Eric and the rest of the parasites end up in prison. I am betting that they will end up in the Middle East in a vain attempt to avoid incarceration!!!
Holy Shit Jack.. the sequence.. once you understand you see clearly what’s happening.. and then you can’t unsee it. Every single day thru this shitshow of a presidency.. thank you Jack for teaching me what to look at and what to look for..
Collusion. Conspiracy. Both sides lying to the court, in tandem. Did the IRS ever file an answer to the original complaint? Or didn't it get that far? Did trump, through his personal attorneys, the DOJ, ever file an actual complaint that had actual claims? Who signed it? Blanche? Old boiled and skinned nuts, himself, who proclaimed to the world that he "loved" trump?
And you wonder, which of the evil ones devised this? I don't think Blanche has the brains to come up with it.
If this was all above board, why didn’t Trump sue Biden’s DOJ? This smells like dead fish because it is. While the courts haven’t said anything is illegal, yet, it’s only a matter of time. Regardless of that, it’s still hinky as hell and is just wrong.