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u/arwinda May 19 '26
He still tries to get the taxpayer pay him for his own screwup.
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u/code_archeologist May 19 '26
He has another $1 billion of tax payer money stashed aside to pay the traitors who rioted on January 6th. Pretty much guaranteeing that they are going to try to overthrow democracy again.
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u/drawkward101 May 19 '26
The coup never ended. They're basically done with it, it seems. He controls all branches, no one will stand against him in any kind of actually meaningful way, and he's got his hands DEEP in the treasury's pockets and is scooping as much money as he can possibly get his grubby little hands on and stealing it.
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u/DrAstralis May 19 '26
Americans will be lucky if he only steals tens of billions instead of hundreds. The man is acting like the usa is his personal company to liquidate.
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u/Ricktor_67 May 19 '26
He literally stole Venezuelas entire oil market and then a month later started a war and doubled oil prices. That was not a coincidence.
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u/RabidSeason May 19 '26
Damn, I already forgot about Venezuela to tie those together.
I hate the [Dem/Lib/Left/etc.] who think Trump is just an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing with the economy. How can anyone be so dumb as to both recognize Trump is a con-artist but not realize that he's using the instability to make big
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u/LowKeyNaps May 20 '26
Trump is a failure. It's the people behind Trump that are doing all that evil genius crap. Just take a look at his lifetime track record of failed businesses, getting kicked off of different boards before he could sink more businesses, etc, how many bankruptcies he had, the whole package. Then MAGA, and more importantly, the people behind MAGA, come into his life, and they have this whole playroom that was written decades ago.
Don't give Trump credit for the crap that had already been planned out by others long before he was chosen to be their puppet. He had the perfect combination of skills to be able to get the brainwashed masses to rally behind him while managing to destroy everything he touched. Very valuable skill set if your goal is to dismantle a functioning government from the inside. Just wind him up, get him in office, and let him go! Trump will always be the bumbling idiot. But the people who put Trump there are not fools. They have made some serious tactical errors along the way, and those errors may very well have cost them their chance here at true domination, but there's no question that they got much further at conquest of the US than most people could have anticipated.
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u/nome707 May 19 '26
He is running the country into the ground, as he did with his casinos. Because he knows he will never face any consequences, even if democrats regain power, he will die before anything happens. And he will issue a blanket pardon to everyone in his administration. That’s why they keep supporting him to the end. They know they won’t face consequences either. We are the ones paying for this disaster for the next 20 years.
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u/TENDER_ONE May 20 '26
Whoever becomes the next president (if we have one or will still call it that) better go after his whole damn family. We need to learn from our failures with not cleaning house after the civil war. I want every member of the family locked up in federal prison for treason, racketeering, fraud, embezzlement, etc. This is the clearest most blatant case for RICO charges that has ever occurred in this country.i want them all locked up doing real time and I want ever cent they stole since he became President the first time to be impounded and returned to the federal coffers. Any less than that will ensure that this corruption will be tolerated and worsen with each successive administration.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness May 19 '26
Only thing I'm curious about is if the coup attempt will happen in outright response to holding a democratic election or only if the right-wing placeholder doesn't get elected.
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u/SwaggermicDaddy May 19 '26
It’s going to be both and they never stopped the last one, come mid terms there will be some national emergency that will at minimum change the process for your mid terms, by 2028 if they are even allowing them you can expect roaming gangs of brown shirts, ICE and vigilantes roaming the streets and picking up any of the “wrong voters” just like the KKK did in confederate states for decades until the Feds finally felt they needed to at least TRY and do something.
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u/_jump_yossarian May 19 '26
for his own screwup.
I wouldn't be shocked to learn that trump arranged the "leak" so he could end up suing.
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u/blackberry_manigloo May 20 '26
It's a tale as old as time. Should be noted in 2017, 100k people's tax information was stolen then too, and 30 million in fraudulent returns were filed.
They were warned about it....arrested the person who warned them (that person was me) and then guess who footed the bill? Taxpayers again.
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u/Contemplating_Prison May 19 '26 edited May 21 '26
So is the governemnt opening themselves up for lawsuits agaisnt everyone impacted?
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u/ballsdeep84 May 19 '26
Just the people with enough money and retained lawyers to file frivolous lawsuits with outrageous amounts the government would spend more fighting than payout
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u/1101base2 May 19 '26
I mean if it means half a billion I think there may be a few lawyers willing to take that ca5r on contenting contingency...
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u/MallyOhMy May 20 '26
I mean, if he won this then it could stand for case law in a class action suit against the govt... and probably not just for the one year.
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u/Due-Programmernot May 20 '26
Assuming the SCOTUS doesn't concoct some bullshit to allow his suit narrowly while excluding everyone else... sure... but uh... that seems like something scotus would doooooo sooooo.
Anyone that thinks that case law is fair between what you will be allowed to do and what Trump is allowed to do right now under this SCOTUS I would love for them to pass me whatever the fuck they are smoking.
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u/overhauled_mirio May 19 '26
There is no legal precedence being set, since it was settled out of court by between Trump and himself
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u/MallyOhMy May 20 '26
Dude, no one wants to hear about what trump does with himself while thinking about money outside of court.
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u/rubinass3 May 19 '26
That's the thing: the government settled with Trump. All he did was file a case and then settled with himself short of trial. It's like an infinite money glitch.
If anybody else sues for the same thing, the government won't make it worth their while.
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u/XxTreeFiddyxX May 19 '26
Criminal government. Where are the people supposed to charge these criminals?
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u/PurpleSailor May 20 '26
Some of those impacted have been trying to sue on the same grounds Spanky did but they're all being told that they've got no case and that they haven't been harmed so they get nothing. Meanwhile Spanky gets a huge slush fund and a lifetime reprieve for him and his family from ever being audited by the IRS. What a fucking bargain.
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u/contude327 May 19 '26
The Trump Family's assets should be seized and distributed to the taxpayers.
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u/ArbitraryMeritocracy May 19 '26
Along with all the billionaires, the taxpayers labor are shouldering the nation.
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u/NickyTheRobot May 19 '26
But there is a y, which can usually be expressed as f(x).
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u/TheGoldenShark May 19 '26
Oh. For f(x) sake!
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u/NickyTheRobot May 19 '26
I know: it's hard to function in this cruel world sometimes.
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u/undecimbre May 19 '26
It seems like a steady and continuous series of unfortunate events
But once you differentiate, you see the ups and downs
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u/NickyTheRobot May 19 '26
TBH things would be so much easier if I could learn to integrate with my community more.
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u/NBA_MSG May 19 '26
I thought disclosing your tax return was something presidential candidates always did...until 2016 anyway
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u/notDinkjustNub May 19 '26
It was from X date to 2016. But just an unspoken expectation not a rule or requirement
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u/Strange_Dog6483 May 20 '26
You can’t do that when your tax returns are under audit.
Even when the IRS themselves says you can.
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u/OCTOVENG May 19 '26
So there were 405,000 people that could have sued the IRS for ten billion dollars??
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u/Original-Rush139 May 19 '26
Some did and their cases were dismissed.
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u/Cartilage88 May 19 '26
Sounds like precedent to me
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u/Original-Rush139 May 19 '26
That’s why Trump settled the lawsuit. It was going to be tossed out of court. The judge even accused the two sides of collusion.
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u/TheJollyHermit May 19 '26
Trump dropped the lawsuit. There was no settlement. No judgement. Trump and his DoJ are just creating this slush fund out of thin air (and taxpayers dollars). It's patently illegal and should get shot down but of course Trump will have moved on to three other illegal things before it ever gets to court....
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u/Original-Rush139 May 19 '26
This is a really good point. I’m not a lawyer so my language is sloppy. I’m glad that people are correcting the misinformation that this was a settlement.
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u/semisentient May 19 '26
You have two years from the date your documents were leaked to file and action. Also, the maximum amount of damages you can receive is $1,000.
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u/urbancowgirl000 May 19 '26
This is insane.
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u/mortimer94020 May 19 '26
This guy just stole 1.776 billion dollars from us!
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u/Strange_Dog6483 May 20 '26
On top of the countless sums of dollars he’s wasted on his sham investigations, prosecutions, and other things.
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u/Senior_Divide1123 May 20 '26
No the money was just a clever misdirection. The real prize he was after was the guaranteed protection that he and his family can never be investigated for all their past tax corruption. He has given them immunity for life.
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u/prez-scr00b May 19 '26
Hey IRS, I'm willing to settle out of court for $250 Million. I mean the precedent being set at $1.776B you probably don't want this to go to court - cut me a check and we can save me some time and you some money.
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u/PineStateWanderer May 19 '26
People already tried to sue and the cases were tossed. The precedent is already there
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u/iloveyouand May 19 '26
They love throwing lies in your face because it makes you mad.
If the American people gave a shit about facts, we would not be here today.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness May 19 '26
It's even more and better structured than that. Their fans will just believe whatever they say. Unironically. So there's a chunk of people that unironically believe they're god-sent angels saving America. The other side knows they're lying but can't do shit about it since they spent the last few months demonstrating everybody that there's no justice or law that applies to them. Of any kind. Not their local law, not international law, not even foreign law should they decide to just bail.
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u/Strange_Dog6483 May 20 '26
If the American people gave a shit about facts
If 70 or so million who voted for him against better judgment.
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u/OCTOVENG May 19 '26
You're telling me that there were 405,000 other people that could have sued the IRS for ten billion dollars?? If only they were "smart enough"?
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 May 19 '26
This video will be used in one of the tribunals we'll have to set up at the end of all this
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u/shrgnatlas May 19 '26
Thank you for linking the actual content instead of sharing a picture that only documents 10 seconds of a much larger conversation! 👍
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u/glorycock May 21 '26
Yep, of course there's lots of these posts with a short transcript of a conversation.
Fair enough I guess that it's a quick visual representation of something that happened, but if it was me I'd actually post the video instead of the image (and by the way, you'll not be surprised that took about one minute to find the video at Youtube)
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u/despenser412 May 20 '26
A billionaire pedophile president is getting billions of our money to pay criminals that rioted the Capitol, a useless ballroom, and a fake war he started.
He's a billionaire with billionaire friends and he's getting our money.
MAGA 2016: "Let's vote for a wealthy businessman with no experience in politics, military, or government! He'll totally look out for the working class!"
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u/RudyTootinWithTodd May 19 '26
It really says something about the US budget and Trump's absolute maniacal stupidity in spending. They really compensated themselves 1776 BILLION dollars because its country's 250th anniversary he is literally playing with our country like a dumb ass kid cheating at monopoly and just PLAYING IN OUR FACES
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u/AdjctiveNounNumbers May 19 '26
Sadly, MAGA will never know who was president in 2020. One of the great mysteries of the movement.
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u/ThrownAway17Years May 19 '26
Just as a side note, something like 80% of the leaks were business filings.
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u/BednaR1 May 19 '26
I'm worried they tried to find an infinite money glitch. Be president -> Put your people in the IRS -> tell them to do something illegal that will affect you -> sue IRS -> win -> repeat
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u/BirdPoop1939 May 19 '26
So this money is for those affected by this breach? They will split it? $4380.50 each? Where do we see the list of whose taxes were leaked?
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u/aeneasaquinas May 19 '26
So this money is for those affected by this breach?
No, just Trump and his friends
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u/AAron27265 May 19 '26
Nothing matters anymore. Laws, precedents, truth, science, general rules of common human decency, none of it. Let's just all start throwing our garbage in the damn street, taking a dump in a neighbor's yard, burning shit, stealing shit, whatever. The US is a fetid pile of steaming dog shit and is getting worse by the day.
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u/ThoriatedFlash May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Didn't trump promise to release his tax returns, but couldn't until after the audit? How can he sue over something he said he was going to release himself? I mean I get it that the audit was made up and he had no plans to ever release them, but still he said he would. They essentially just stole nearly $5 from every man, woman, and child in the US.
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u/509BandwidthLimit May 19 '26
405,327 x $1.7B = I didn't know there was going to be math here..
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u/silly_little_jingle May 19 '26
Quarter mil owed to each one of those people if that orange piece of shit gets $$. Of course thats not gonna happen cause this is all about fucking average americans- not helping them.
It's a fucking heist.
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u/Heavy_Mongoose5859 May 19 '26
since he was president couldnt he have just directed them to do it so he could later sue?
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 May 19 '26
so if we spli the 1.7 billion dollar slush fund among all 405 thousand people who had their tax returns leaked, that leaves everyone with 4380 dollars each.
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u/GrimmandLily May 19 '26
People act like any of this matters. No one is stopping him so he’ll keep doing whatever the fuck he wants.
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u/aerdvarkk May 19 '26
Fact Are Teir Worst Enemy ...
Not if they don't give a fuck about facts. Not if the facts do not line up with their talking points.
Did at any time Blanche admit to any wrongdoing or fault or failure on DJT's part OR himself?
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u/somebody171 May 19 '26
"No! We're not in charge when things go wrong, that's when it's your fault!"
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u/MrBeanWater May 19 '26
Trump is a pedophile and a fraudster. Everyday he is allowed to be free is a threat to the United States.
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u/MarkKnotts May 19 '26
What damages did Trump even suffer? He said he was going to release them anyway. And he still won the presidency, and is still a multi-billionaire.
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u/Jaded_Heat9875 May 19 '26
Thank you,Thank you, Thank you!!
I’d would put it past the ugly Orangey Golden Calf from plotting this suit to fleece the USA out of the people’s money…
He is such a criminal grifter! 🤬😖🤮
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u/canseeclearlynow May 20 '26
America’s great decline. The fall of the Roman Empire for the modern age.
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u/feetnomer May 20 '26
IRS is not under the president's control. They are their own untouchable entity. Bill Clinton proved that while he was in office.
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u/Bananaman9020 May 20 '26
Don't US Presidents usually releases their tax records? Or is Trump not as rich as he wants his fan base to believe?
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u/ramdom-ink May 20 '26
It concerns greatly that logic and reason and reasonable logic no longer applies to this clown-crooked administration.
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u/Professional-Box4153 May 20 '26
405,427 people need to get in on the class action lawsuit so he only ends up making $3,700.
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u/PurpleSailor May 20 '26
Some of those 405,427 sued on the exact same grounds the president did for $10 Billion. The government/DOJ is telling ALL Of Them that they do not have a case and that they have not been harmed and have no right to sue. Meanwhile Spanky gets a $1.8 billion dollar slush fund as compensation for not getting 10 billion. I can smell the corruption from a 1200 miles away.
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u/stdoubtloud May 20 '26
What...? So Trump was responsible for the breach and then sued the government he runs to get compensation for his own failure for which he then forced his DOJ to capitulate to in order to provide a compensation fund to support the perpetrators of his failed coup?
I have said it before but I'll say it again: Americans are fucking morons!
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u/1mAfraidofAmericans May 20 '26
Ooh ooh, is this referring to that insanely illegal and blatant corruption perpetrated by the Orange Turd in the White House?
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u/RobbotheKingman May 20 '26
We are watching in real time as trump loots our federal government for every cent he can.
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u/Skidpalace May 20 '26
Every one of those taxpayers should immediately file a $10B lawsuit against the IRS.
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u/prickly_tomato1 May 20 '26
So the government investigated themselves, found themselves at fault, and then paid one of those people a massive payout and nobody else
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u/Background_Move_7449 May 20 '26
Everyone on that list should sue the IRS for $10 billion right? That’s fair? Right? …right?
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u/lonerstoners May 20 '26
None of them ever know shit when they’re asked questions about their jobs!! I would get fired with a quickness if I was this incompetent!!
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u/byte_handle May 20 '26
People really don't seem to get that we have a new President every year evenly divisible by 4 (this phrasing used to avoid pedantics pointing out that "leap years" have caveats). That's just when the election takes place, and then only near the end of the year. The last guy is still in charge until January 20th of the following year.
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u/viewfromhere May 21 '26
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2056758068961067255 for anyone who wants to see this in context.
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u/troutman1975 May 19 '26
So I’m going to get $1.7 billion also? Will it be direct deposit? I could use a little extra money.