Trump Administration Settles Trump Lawsuit With $1.8 Billion Fund for Trump Supporters
By
Chas Danner,
staff editor at Intelligencer
Earlier this year, President Trump and his sons and their family corporation filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the federal government he runs, alleging that the Internal Revenue Service mishandled his tax returns and allowed a federal contractor to leak them back in 2019. This was, essentially, a multibillion-dollar personal lawsuit brought by a multibillionaire president against himself. And for a time, there was quite reasonable concern that he would effectively award himself those damages, since the Justice Department has become Trump’s personal legal department for dispensing punitive justice, which is now being led by his former personal lawyer, acting attorney general Todd Blanche.
