re: U.S. creates $1.7B ‘lawfare’ fund in exchange for Trump dropping $10B IRS suit

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If government is ever used in that way again, there should be a price to pay.

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Do tell.

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I do know I'm pissed at what seems to be non-stop graft at this point.

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Don’t you live in…Chicago?

Sounds like a good deal for the IRS if they were anywhere near likely to lose the $10B suit.

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Sounds like a good deal for the IRS if they were anywhere near likely to lose the $10B suit.

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They were never in any real danger of losing any kind of suit. Trump knows this, which is why he told them to settle, and they did.

It's just textbook corruption out in the wide open, plain and simple.

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Then it gives it back to the American people. In particular, those who were selectively targeted and damaged.

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You're not a Jedi man, and you're not going to change anybody's mind with that BS – reframe it and end with a "that's what he really meant." A charity is a defined thing and not some general concept. So why even try?

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You mean like the Democratic NGOs?

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No, this new fund is legitiamtley unprecedented.

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So corruption matters only if it's Trump?

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No, not even a little bit.

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Then it gives it back to the American people. In particular, those who were selectively targeted and damaged.

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Ends justify the means, amirite?

What we have here is POTUS - without consulting congress - taking money from the Congressionally appropriated IRS budget, and, presumptively, giving it to his sycophants who he believes were mistreated by the legal system

And you support this because:

A. You think his legally specious and time barred lawsuit against the IRS is actually worth $10 BILLION in damages;

B. You believe him when he says he will give the settlement to "charity" which benefits his supporters; AND

C. You want to see his supporters compensated, and you actually think this will somehow curtail future political retribution instead of substantially increasing bad behavior.

Does that about cover it?

Stealing money from taxpayers to own the libs!

Cry harder losers!

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Then it gives it back to the American people. In particular, those who were selectively targeted and damaged.

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Yeah, but who decides that?

This is exactly why populism is for losers.

All these government expansions "to help the Little Guy."

Y'all could see the bullshite in these things for decades when it was just the Democrats doing it. Why are you blind when it's Trump doing it?

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Looks to me like he just made the republican party financially rich. MRRA. Make Republicans Rich Again. Mean while the Dems. are broke and still owe for heels up campaign.

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Same country, a-hole. It's not sports. Take off your blinders. This is good for very few folks, and it certainly won't make the Republican Party "rich."

That party will be left with so much contingent liability out of its relatively recent loss of moral center, that it will continue to spend so much just to stay in power that it would make a Democrat blush.