A federal judge Monday said a controversial lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against the IRS sought to “manipulate the judicial process” and that he acted in bad faith in bringing it.
US District Judge Kathleen Williams is ordering sanctions for the attorneys involved in the lawsuit, which led to an attempt to create the now-defunct $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for allies of the president. It was also used to justify a Trump administration order giving Trump and his businesses amnesty for any past tax issues.
If only “acting in bad faith” actually meant something.
Another impeachable offence. Let’s add it to the pile…
Doesn’t seem to matter. They have disabled the checks and balances, if they were ever there to begin with.
The mountain of terrible is only starting to grow. At some point this all comes to a tipping point and then we’ll see. Either it becomes totalitarian, or the people rise up. This doesn’t end well either way if history teaches us anything.
Hopefully sanctioning the lawyers will lead other attorneys to think long and hard before they do any work for this admin.
Unless the sanctions include shit like losing fingers it will not stop them at all.
They say President Trump wants to get rid of checks and balances. It’s not true. Fake news. They say it, they want you to believe it. Believe me, it’s not true. Nobody loves checks and balances more than me. I get the biggest checks—you’ve never seen bigger—all the time, from Jeff, from Vlad, from Pete. They say, “Donald, you’re doing an amazing job.” Those checks, my checks, make HUGE balances. Big checks, big balances, I love all everything big—but not women, don’t want em. Anyone who says President Trump doesn’t want checks or balances is lying. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
PRESIDENT DJT
/satire
I feel terrible for you having to go there in your brain to just write this, but it’s terribly good lol
They havent disabled the checks and balanced entirely. They still exist, but Republicans refuse to use them. Democrats had 4 years to fix it, though, and didn’t. If they do gain an advantage in Congress in the midterms, I hope they can use it.
Wait, so the disgusting orange gonorrhoea riddled thing that has 30ish sexual assault accusations, who is an adjudged rapist, who’s named more times in the Epstein files than Epstein, who is an unregistered child rapist, a 34 times convicted felon, and who was fined for stealing from a children’s charity and who is famous for being a pathological liar and narcissist was being manipulative and wasn’t acting in good faith?
Wow, who would’ve guessed that!!!This took too long. Get working on disbarring every legal representative who touched this ASAP.
Yep. The Nuremberg Trials began or at least affirmed the very important precedent that “I was just following orders” is not a viable defense against being a fascist piece of shit.
I got sick and tired of this idiot over a year ago … I don’t blame him for all his stupidity. I can only point out the stupidity of an idiot for so long before I start thinking and wondering why I keep having to listen to their stupidity. I now get sick and tired of hearing these headlines because it’s the American public, American political system and American culture in general that keeps normalizing all this stupidity. They allow him to represent their country. And if they want to be represented by a deranged orange orangutan, that’s their problem.
You forgot the American media landscape.
Trump still got the sweetheart deal: the IRS can never investigate him again.
If you read the article you’ll see that the judge also tossed that as grossly illegal and a violation of the offices’ responsibilities.
A deal which is basically worthless. The next administration can ignore it and the most Trump can do is sue. And that negates the whole point of the deal which was to avoid needing to defend the scheme in court. Since the deal is legally indefensible, he’s very unlikely to win that case.
My hope is that can be nullified or at least ignored by the next administration (if we have one). I’m hoping that it isn’t getting much attention because Trump pretty much has the power to direct the IRS to terminate any investigations that he wants. But trying to rope it in with this “settlement agreement” perhaps makes the corruption seem a tiny bit less obvious because then it’s not Trump’s executive order but, rather, a settlement negotiated by his legal team. A stupid distinction, but his administration frequently looks for ways to paint a turd so that his supporters will gobble it up without question.
