'Stinks to high heaven': Chris Hayes connects the dots on Trump's brazen slush fund
Source: Raw Story · Bias: Far Left
Summary
Donald Trump is attempting to pull off what MS NOW's Chris Hayes described on Friday night's edition of "All In" as "a slow-motion heist in broad daylight of billions of dollars."Now a group of court-appointed legal experts is revealing how it "stinks to high heaven," he said.The scheme centers on Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, an agency he controls. Initially, Trump claimed "whatever money his government gave him would go to charity," Hayes said — but that changed quickly.According to ABC News sources, Trump's actual demand is far more audacious: drop the lawsuit in exchange for "total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by Biden's administration's weaponization of legal system."As far as Hayes is concerned, that "sure sounds like a slush fund filled with almost $2 billion of your taxpayer money to pay out his MAGA buddies, including, God, I don't know, the ones that beat up the cops and concussed them."The assigned judge has expressed warranted skepticism — and taken the highly unusual step of recruiting six outside legal experts to advise her. As Hayes noted, the Constitution requires cases to involve actual disputes between adversarial parties — but here, "it's Donald Trump on one side demanding your money and Donald Trump on the other side in charge of your money. Is that adversarial?"A separate filing by the court-appointed attorneys argues that the lawsuit is unconstitutional in the first place, raising questions about whether the judge has the ability to block a settlement from happening. - YouTube youtu.be
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