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So there's this concept of willful ignorance. And I've had to stop and ask myself if Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn are being willfully ignorant here. I saw all the headlines, Blanche agrees to kill the slush fund and the IRS immunity is limited, blah, blah, blah. Let's be clear. John Cornyn, lawyer, who I gave a lot of credit to, because when Blanche was going through his Senate Judiciary questioning, Cornyn really honed in on a critical issue from the settlement agreement. And I had to put it in quotes. Right. Settlement agreement. Cornyn really honed in on the issue about any modification of the settlement agreement must be in writing and agreed to by all the parties. And he asked Blanche about this. And I was like, look, finally somebody who's really kind of getting into the weeds on this to show that you can't just say, oh, there's no more slosh fund or whatever. And yet this dog and pony stupidity that I am seeing now with Blanche posting this on X, saying, oh, I met with them, we've worked it out, everything's kosher, you know, nothing to see her people move on. No, there's a lot to see here. And we're going to talk about it right now because it's just offensive to think that, you know, Cornyn and Tillis are putting blinders on about the fact that none of this shit means legally what people are talking about. Okay, so let's start with what Blanch posted. Let's go to Twitter. This is what he posted. He said, my team and I have met with committee members and senators over the past several weeks, addressed any concerns or outstanding questions, and here's the following order and update with regard to the May IRS settlement. Okay, so let's start with the first thing here. It's dated August 2, 2026, which was yesterday. And it says, the May 18th order establishing the anti weaponization fund is rescinded and shall have no force or effect. So what are we going to do, folks? Let's go to the May 18, 2026 order. Now, first things first, dated May 18, I'm gonna go to the very last page of it. It's signed by Todd Blanche as the Acting Attorney General. It ain't signed by the lawyers for private citizen Donald Trump or his fail sons or his business entity. It's not signed by anybody else. It's only signed by Todd Blanche. This May 18th piece of paper basically specifies the $1.776 billion slush fund, which was to fund insurrectionists. And it talks about how the funds are going to be deposited and all that other caca. Right, okay, fine. And it says here, this order, as he's calling it, even though it doesn't have any order enforcement, from a legal perspective, this document purportedly sets up the anti weaponization fund. And so now according to Todd Blanche, that May 18 piece of paper I just showed you on the screen is, quote, rescinded and has no force or effect. Okay, fine. Now here's the problem. I don't even have to go beyond that one letter A on that August 2nd memo. Why? Let's go to the settlement agreement itself. And again, I got to stop. There's no settlement of any litigation because as Judge Kathleen Williams made a determination, there was collusion from the get go because Trump was suing his own Treasury Department and his own irs. And so because Trump was controlling the outcome of the litigation from the beginning. It was collusion and it was perpetration of fraud upon the court. Now why may I. Why is Trump appealing Judge Williams order if there was only some specifics that came out of that settlement of that bullshit lawsuit, one of which was this slush fund which is now dead. Okay, because we all know that's bullshit, right? Okay, so let's go to the settlement agreement because this is really important. The settlement agreement, again in quotes, is multi page. It's nine pages. Okay, going to start with Roman numeral one. It says this is a civil lawsuit brought by President Donald J. Trump, Don Jr. Eric Trump, two fail sons and the Trump Organization LLC. That's it, people. There's only four plaintiffs. Trump, Trump Jr. Don Trump Jr. Eric Trump and the Trump Organization LLC. No other people. And it was against the IRS and the Treasury Department, nobody else. Okay, you have four plaintiffs, you have two defendants. Remember, these are the operative parties to this settlement agreement. Now let's go to the second page. Roman numeral 3b. In exchange for the relief provided in this settlement agreement, the plaintiffs, just those four, remember Trump. The two Fail Sons and Trump Org, LLC release the IRS and the Treasury Department from any claims that they could seek against the IRS and the Treasury Department arising out of or relating to any of the claims that they have made regarding, quote, ready regarding the search warrant being executed on Mar A Lago and his allegations of a, quote, Russia collusion hoax, which was not a hoax. Okay? To provide a systematic process. This is C letter C. To hear and redress claims of others who have suffered harm from similar, quote, lawfare and weaponization. The Attorney General agrees to create the Anti Weaponization Fund, which now according to Top. Blanche is dead. Okay, and then Roman numeral four, A, an accompanying order of the Attorney General shall be established within 30 days. And that was that piece of paper I showed you at the beginning of this episode. Now, let's go to page four of the settlement agreement. Let's go to Roman numeral six, enforcement. This settlement agreement is enforceable and challengeable. That word. Solely by the plaintiffs, the defendants, and the United States. Not quite sure about the addition of the United States here, but four plaintiffs, two defendants. We've already gone through this. Right. Let's go to Roman numeral 7, integration and counterparts. This is an important thing, too, because it says here that the settlement agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties, and no prior statement, representation, agreement, or understanding, oral or written, that is not contained within the settlement agreement will have any force or effect. Modification. Now, this is the Provision. Roman numeral 8, entitled modification. Quote. This settlement agreement may be modified only with the written agreement of the parties, plural. Not one party. Not Attorney General Todd Blanche. It's the parties, plural. If the intent of the settlement agreement was to only allow one party to be able to modify it, then it would have said it, but. But it doesn't. It says written agreement, which means all the parties have to sign off on any modification of this settlement agreement. And then on the final page, Roman numeral 10, there's a provision called severability. If any provision of the settlement agreement is deemed to be invalid or unenforceable, then the validity of the other provisions of this agreement actually will not be affected or impaired, and those provisions that survive shall be enforced to the maximum extent possible. Now, let's go back to what Blanche posted on Twitter. So now Blanche says this Aug. 2 piece of paper says slush fund has no force or effect. Then it says that for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this order dated August 2 is intended to contradict or be contrary to any prior representations by the DOJ that the fund is not operative. It's like the belt and suspenders. Just making sure you understand that we made prior representations that the slush fund was dead, and now it's dead. Fine. But what about the tax issue? Because the tax issue is the one that obviously gives people a lot of cause for pause. And you may say, Katie, will you refresh my recollection about the tax issue? Gladly and willingly. Let's go to the tax issue. That's from a May 19th piece of paper signed again by Todd Blanche, Acting Attorney General. Did he use. Did he use an auto pen? Because that signature looks very different than the other signatures. I'm just saying, because, you know, God forbid Joe Biden used an auto pen. But of course, Todd, Blanche can. Anyway, May 19, it says here in number C or letter C that the United States government. Last I checked, the US Was not a part of any lawsuit here. But whatever, the United States releases and forever discharges each of the plaintiffs. Now remember, who were the plaintiffs, Trump? The two failed sons and the Trump Organization llc. So the United States government releases those four plaintiffs from any claims that have been or could have been asserted by the defendants. Oh, well, that's the Treasury Department and the irs, right? Okay, so now we're back to just those defendants. So they're saying we're not going to pursue against any of those four plaintiffs any claims that could have been brought against. But then here's where it goes off the rails, this May 19th document, because now it says against any of the plaintiffs or related or affiliated individuals, including without limitation, family or others filing jointly, meaning wives, children, you know, dog walkers. And then it says, or parties, including trust, parents, sister or related companies, affiliates, subsidiaries. Get the fuck out of here. Now it's everybody and literally their mother. And then it's not the claims about the Mar A Lago search warrant and the quote, Russia collusia hoax. Now we're saying any lawfare and, or weaponization and oh, hey, any matters currently pending or that could be pending, including tax returns that were before the IRS or the Treasury Department or other agencies or departments. So this obscene piece of paper signed by Todd Blanche on May 19 was giving quarter, safety, safe space to Trump, his family, his business entities for literally everything under the sun involving the federal government, not just the IRS and the Treasury Department. And the fact that nobody picks up on this drives me nuts. Let's go back to Blanche. So now Blanche has this other posting on Twitter that says that the May 19th order that I just walked through with all of you fine people, the mutual release applies only retroactively, meaning Blanche is like. It only applies from all the criming that was done by all the people up until May 19th. Additionally, the terms lawfare and or weaponization is only people that were subjected to the use of government power to be targeted for unlawful political, personal and or ideological reasons. What? Okay, so still doesn't cure, doesn't cure the broadness, the over breath of that May 19th piece of paper. That was done. Now here's the thing. It says here. Who. Who else? What are you talking about? How does it say here in this piece of paper that it's only limited to Trump, the Fail Sons and the organization doesn't say that. I don't say that. I don't see that. Nothing here. I don't see that. He says here at the very end of the third paragraph. The DOJ's interpretation of the May 19th order is that it only has effect on the named parties in the lawsuit reference in the order. Here is the pardon my French people. Here's the clusterfuck from this. And this is why I started this conversation with you asking are Cornyn and Tillis just willfully ignorant right now? Because the language of the order, as Tom Blanche is saying in his Twitter post, the parties are beyond in that May 19th order, just the people in the lawsuit, remember, it was Trump, the Failsons and the Trump Organization LLC. This May 19th order is every single fucking person and the business entities and it involves the Treasury Department, the IRS, and any other federal agencies and departments. The language of the May 19 order is very clear. I don't need Todd Blanche's interpretation. What I need is what the quote, settlement agreement required in Roman numeral 8 for modification. I need a written agreement agreed to by all of the parties and signed off by them. Let me be explicitly clear here. Todd Blanche does not represent anybody in this lawsuit. If you look at the notice of appearance, number one, you had private counsel for private citizen Donald Trump, the Failsons and the Trump Organization llc. That was not Todd Blanche. Number two, no lawyer ever signed a notice of appearance on behalf of the Department of Treasury or the irs. Number three, the people who signed that settlement agreement on behalf of the IRS and the Treasury Department, they're not signing on behalf of Donald Trump, the Fail Sons and the Trump Organization. They're signing on behalf of the IRS and the Treasury Department. This is Basic Law 101. Blanche has just tried to pull a fast one. And listen, maybe he has succeeded to pull the wool over the eyes of Cornyn Antilles. But I am still stunned that any other lawyer who serves on Senate Judiciary, of which there are several, would ever think that this is an enforceable piece of paper. Here's the other shit. Is it posted on Twitter? Am I supposed to be able to reference it now in the legal filing and Twitter? Why are we still appealing? What are we appealing? Trump, Remember, Trump brought this lawsuit in its private capacity. He didn't bring it as the President of the United States. And despite his emphatic impression, emphatic swearing and protestations otherwise, we all knew that this asshole was trying to use his job as president to be able to influence the outcome of this. So this is what I am. My mind is boggled at how completely fakacta this all is. And yet what? This is now enough. What about the Epstein files? Senate Judiciary Republicans? Have we forgotten about that? Thom Tillis, Were you really just so okay with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sitting there and being a disrespectful asshole to the Epstein survivors and the advocates saying, get to your or. I have nothing to investigate. Nobody has given me any evidence. Why are the Epstein files suddenly not an issue for this confirmation of Tob Blanche? Why? Because we know that Republicans are balless wonders. They have no spines. And stop making Cornyn and Tillis profiles and fucking courage, because they're not. None of them are. Unless you vote. No, you are not a profile in courage. Putting aside the next thing, Todd Blanche, as I've explained here, was Senate confirmed last year. He's the Acting Attorney General after he was Senate confirmed as a Deputy ag. He can serve as the Acting Attorney General. You do not have to vote him through. It is just the stupidity. The stupidity just abounds. It just really does. I could send so much time talking about this, but I won't because I think I got my point across. What Todd Blanche has posted on Twitter and whatever piece of paper this man has generated is insufficient for purposes of legal enforceability. And they know it. They know it at the doj. They know that on the Trump end, they're all laughing, laughing at these senators, thinking that they've negotiated something, that the Senator got something out of them. Stop the stupidity. Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability. You know I am. You know I don't give a shit about what Tom lynch posts on Twitter because this is ridiculous, absurd. 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