The Washington Post calls the looting of the Treasury a "deal" and an "agreement."
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It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.
In unusual deal, a $1.8 billlion fund that could help Trump allies is created.
The agreement to end the Trump family’s lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority …
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3:55 PM · May 18, 2026
It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.†The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.
— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T19:55:25.068Z
The deal, laid out in a document signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, could result in taxpayer payouts to the president’s allies.
May 18, 2026 at 7:20 p.m. EDT Yesterday at 7:20 p.m. EDT
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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
By Jeremy Roebuck, Mark Berman and Perry Stein
President Donald Trump has agreed to drop his family’s lawsuit against the IRS as part of a highly unusual agreement that establishes a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate those who, like him, have claimed they have been targets of a “weaponized” justice system.
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Of course.
because Biden's DOJ investigated him. 
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