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Perception is Everything; Reality is Nothing :: :: Common Sense Died With Common Courtesy :: :: "I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people"

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Newsroom

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I think the world needs to hear this AGAIN.

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@krassenstein @DougWahl1 Trump Swamp

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.

Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.

In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.

The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?

The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.

Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.

Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.

Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.

Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.

She listened.

"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.

Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.

If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

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@AdamKinzinger And you trust #tRUMP's DOJ to investigate corruption?

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@SaraForTexLege "...the GOP has been able to hoodwink people for decades into thinking that they the party of “fiscal responsibility”..."

#tRUMP has finally, clearly, shown that the @gOP is the party of nothing but LIES & GRIFT

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@Lina_rays1ya Ya, then look at the net wealth gained during the presidencies - #tRUMP out grifts them all.

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@gtconway3d We knew way back then that #tRUMP & #jD were 'not serious people' with 'brain worms'
https://t.co/Ll66xCgei3

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@JfkPascalNajadX Grok: ...“What a pansy” is a slang insult meaning:
• “What a wimp”, “What a weakling”, or “What a sissy”. It’s used to mock someone (usually a man or boy) for being seen as cowardly, overly sensitive, timid, or unwilling to do something tough, risky, or “manly.”

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@JfkPascalNajadX Ya, #tRUMP '86'd it'

Grok: ....No major mob movie features a gangster saying “86 him” (or “eighty-six him”) to mean “kill him.”

“86” is real slang that generally means “get rid of,” “remove,” “cancel,” or “eject” something/someone. It originated in restaurant/bar contexts...

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@IndianaGPA Had one - the hand crank was a real pain-in-the....one day, some how, the mower caught fire and that solved the problem.

But you are otherwise right; EVERYTHING older was better built - washers, dryers, motors, engines - they say 'over engineered' but they worked and lasted.

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@Jim_Jordan Jim Jordan = fraud

Got that? @Jim_Jordan one of the most ignorant @gOP fraudsters.

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@Cernovich Yep, there has to be a better way - hurts when it is done to you instead of with you, doesn't it - thank to Tx that finally got the Dems to 'fight fire with fire'

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@nicksortor ooops,

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@JamesTate121 @anders_aslund

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@hinds_mela61795

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@GuntherEagleman And the price of home heating oil just hit $5.99 a gallon - yep, that is totally due to #tRUMP and his wack-a-mole wars on the American people

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@sciencegirl Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) compounds — the dominant concern in traditional plating — are highly hazardous. They are classified as known human carcinogens by agencies like OSHA, EPA, IARC, and NTP.

Life expectancy for the worker doing this like the person shown?

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@j0ker937 BULLSH*T - the BuB no tax on SS is a flat out LIE by #tRUMP and the @gOP

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@Milajoy Zero times - yes ZERO times!

The United States Constitution does not use the exact term "Election Day" (or "election day") anywhere in its text, including the original seven articles or the 27 amendments.

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@LangmanVince 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #tRUMP did that all by himself

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@TheSCIF BULLSH*T - Origin and denial: The numbers trace to an anonymous pro-Trump blog post amplified by OAN in November 2020; Edison Research president Larry Rosin confirmed the company produced no such report or analysis and found no evidence of voter fraud.