Episode Details

The New York Times reported that the Justice Department, run by the President's former personal defense attorney Todd Blanche, is in active internal discussions about whether to settle the President's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. A settlement that would effectively give the man who runs the executive branch a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer payout, with his own former personal lawyer signing the check. And one of the options on the table is for the IRS to drop all audits of Donald Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization. Forever. If this goes through, it will be the largest financial con ever pulled on our country.

Based on the events of 5-13-2026

The Breakdown:

• Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns, and the DOJ is now in active settlement talks
• The largest administrative settlement the DOJ has ever paid was roughly $138 million, split among 139 women in the Larry Nassar case. Trump is demanding more than seventy times that, for himself
• Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin sued over the same leak and received zero dollars
• One settlement option would have the IRS drop all audits of Trump, Don Jr., Eric, and the Trump Organization forever
• Trump could owe more than $100 million from audits already underway, according to a 2024 Times report
• The federal judge has ordered briefs by May 20 questioning whether the President can even sue agencies he controls
• Why the DOJ is racing to settle before the May 27 hearing where the case could be thrown out
• The money would come from the Judgment Fund, a permanent pot of taxpayer dollars that requires no congressional vote
• Who is sitting at the negotiating table: Todd Blanche, Stanley Woodward, and Trent McCotter, all former defense attorneys for Trump and his inner circle
• Trump on camera: "I'm suing myself" and "I'll work out a settlement with myself"
• The IRS workforce has been cut by roughly 25 percent since January 2025, with 45 percent of the cuts coming from the enforcement division
• The Treasury Department projected a $500 billion drop in tax revenue this year
• Why this fits the textbook definition of kleptocracy, and the historical parallels with Putin's Russia and Yanukovych's Ukraine
• Why adding Don Jr. and Eric to the lawsuit is dynasty-building, paid for by us
• The Stop Presidential Embezzlement Act introduced by Senator Wyden, and why every 2026 election matters
• Someone inside the Justice Department picked up the phone and called the New York Times. People like them are still in there.

This is a theft. A theft of public money by a public official, from the public, for his own family. That is what is being negotiated inside the Justice Department. That is the deal on the table. And the part we hold onto is that career civil servants who took an oath to the Constitution, not to a man, are still doing the right thing even when the president will not.