An appeals court Tuesday sided with a lower court judge who determined Trump colluded with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in bringing and later dismissing a case seeking $10 billion in damages from the IRS.

Florida-based U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in July found that the lawsuit that served as the hook for the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund amounted to collusion as the two parties were never truly averse. She also sanctioned two Trump attorneys in the process.

The president, who sued his own administration in January over the leak of his tax returns, struck an agreement with the IRS in late May to dismiss the case, with the DOJ then creating an “anti-weaponization” fund to provide payments to those who claim to have been wronged by the government.

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      6 hours ago

      Indeed. Saying that kind of thing only helps to validate morons like donnie claiming 2024 (or 2016) were a “landslide” for donnie.

      What actually happened was all kinds of fuckery by Republicans (they have done this for decades) and foreign actors to get just enough people to sit out or be disenfranchised, then drive just enough dumbasses to go vote for donnie (or, just as idiotically, some useful idiot like Stein. 🙄 ) to have just enough of an edge over normal Americans that do show up to vote, especially in “battleground” states.

      This idea that donnie ever had majority support is retconning. He’s never reached 50% in job approval and that’s not surprising.

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        5 hours ago

        Thank you for expressing a reality based take. Sometimes I feel like I’m the crazy one for being in touch with reality