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May 20, 2026
Stephen Holmes
President Donald Trump has dropped his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns in exchange for a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate Americans who claim persecution by the previous administration. The point is no longer to conceal corruption but to flaunt impunity.
BERLIN—The king has two bodies: a mortal one that eats, sleeps, and dies, and an immortal political one that persists as the state. US President Donald Trump has not revived this medieval doctrine so much as turned it into a joke—one played on the law itself. His private body sued his sovereign body, and the two coordinated the outcome in advance.
