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In the dead of night, the Trump Justice Department executed an agreement with Republican senators to move Todd Blanche's confirmation forward. But the agreement as being reported on by the mainstream media and the press. Well, it's a sham and not many people are talking about it. It's highly concerning to me and I'm going to show you, I'm going to break down piece by piece for you in this video of exactly how this agreement is really nothing. It's not an agreement at all. And yet it's going to be used to push Todd Blanche into the highest law enforcement position in our nation. See the headlines today? Are Senators execute deal with Todd Blanche to kill the weaponization fund? But the underlying deal is much more sinister. And I think it's important in this respect to have lawyers look at it, not just journalists. And I'm going to look at it from a legal perspective and from a journalistic perspective. And I think you're not going to get this perspective really anywhere else. Hit that subscribe button if you can. I'm going to go to Mitch McConnell's facility today and there's going to be some Epstein news this week. We're on the road to a million subscribers. If you can support this work like comment Share, get the word out, because I think the American people really need to know the truth about the fact that right now, in my opinion and based on what I see in the documents, the Department of Justice is pulling a fast one on you and on senators in Congress. So if you don't know and if you haven't been tracking everything that's happening with Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, well, there's been a hiccup, a holdup in his confirmation. Two senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thom Tillis from North Carolina and John Cornyn from Texas, say they will not confirm Todd Blanche unless the weaponization fund, which is the $1.8 billion taxpayer fund, to give to January six defendants and other individuals who felt aggrieved by the Biden administration unless that in writing was killed. And they also had issues with an audit immunity agreement that would have given Trump and his family and his companies immunity over tax related audits for any year prior to 2026. Well, after a bunch of haggling over the weekend, Todd Blanche said they have a deal, they have a deal. He put out this statement overnight while most folks were asleep, saying, my team and I have met with committee members and senators over the past several weeks and addressed any concerns or outstanding questions. We have enjoyed good faith conversations and as a result issued the following order, an update with regards to the May IRS settlement. The department always welcomes and appreciates productive engagement with all members of Congress. And I'm going to show you the order that he was given. But this is how the mainstream media is reporting on it right now. Todd Blanche Terminates Trump's Anti Weaponization Fund From Reuters to the AP to the New York Times, npr, cnn, every media organization is saying they reached a deal. He's rescinds the Anti Weaponization fund. It's scrapped. But if you actually look at the documents from a legal perspective, I don't think that's the case. And I think a lot of media is just missing the forest from the trees here. So let's look at the order that was issued, quote, The Attorney General's May 18, 2026 order establishing the Anti Weaponization fund is rescinded and shall have no force or effect. For the avoidance of doubt. Nothing in this order is intended to contradict or otherwise be contrary to prior representations by the Department of Justice that the fund is not operative. No members were appointed, no funds were transferred. No process for receiving claims was established. No claims were paid. Nevertheless, several frivolous lawsuits have been filed challenging the fund, and at least one court has declined to dismiss those claims as moot. The order establishes beyond any doubt that there is no fund signed by the acting Attorney General. This is the order that he issued. There's one glaring issue in this order. It was only signed by the acting Attorney General. If you go back to the settlement agreement and I went back to the settlement agreement that was originally executed between Donald Trump, his sons, his company, and the IRS and the Department of Justice, it has a key line in it. To modify the settlement agreement, it has to be modified only, quote, with the written agreement of the parties, not of one party, but of the parties. In legal terms, this sentence means that all parties must agree to modifications of the original settlement agreement, and overnight, only one party put in writing their agreement to this modification. For the modification to be fully valid, Donald Trump would have to sign it. Eric Trump would have to sign it. Don Jr. Would have to sign it. A representative of the Trump Organization would have to sign it. A member of the Department of Treasury would have to sign it. The IRS representative would have to sign it. Or theoretically, the Justice Department could sign on behalf of IRS and Treasury, but Trump himself would have to sign any modification because any modification can only be executed per the terms of the settlement agreement with the written agreement of the parties. But that's not all modification. This clause right Here means that even last night's written order, this one right here, could be modified by agreement of the parties. If in a year's time from now, Donald Trump no longer has Republicans in the Senate willing to oppose him. He let's say in the off chance he grows his Senate majority, he keeps the House of Representatives and he wants to establish a weaponization fund. Again, they can just modify this. They can amend the amendment, they can amend the settlement agreement. They can do it by agree there's nothing that prohibits another modification from occurring the moment John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are no longer in office. They can just say, you know what, we're going to back out, we're going to modify the modification and we're going to do it by agreement of all the parties. They can theoretically do that. There's nothing prohibiting that in this order. And also this order isn't even, potentially even valid given the fact that only one of the parties has signed it. But that's not all. I think a lot of people and a lot of media have missed the fact. And this is when you don't look at something like this from a legal perspective. They missed the fact that January 6th defendants can and have already received taxpayer payouts through other means. The weaponization fund can be dead. But there are multiple avenues by which January 6th defendants and anyone who has felt aggrieved by the Biden administration or is in support of the Trump administration can ask the Department of Justice for funds. For example, Ashley Babbitt's family sued the federal government for wrongful death and the Trump administration paid out millions of dollars to her family via a settlement that's separate from the weaponization fund. There's also something called the Federal Tort Claims act, which many January 6th defendants have already tried to seek payouts under, arguing that the prior Department of Justice or the United States government violated the Federal Tort Claims act as it relates to January 6th defendants. There are other ways individuals can get payouts and they have already gotten those payouts. And so the killing of the weaponization fund doesn't actually end, at least in the short term. And I say killing because it could be revived, but in the short term, it doesn't end payouts to January 6th defendants. Oh, and by the way, I mean, setting all of this aside, if tomorrow the Trump Department of Justice wanted to execute the anti, anti anti weaponization fund, a brand new fund, completely separate and apart from this lawsuit, they could do that. They could execute another agreement. They could find money and transfer money. They can ask The Congress here. And I think a lot of people are missing that when they're just reporting that the weaponization fund is dead. But that's not the only part that I think a lot of people are missing, because in this same order, the Department of Justice announced, quote, further, the May 19, 2026 order regarding a mutual release of claims applies by its terms only retroactively. Additionally, the terms lawfare and or weaponization, in that order, were already defined in the settlement agreement as the use of government power to target individuals, groups and entities for improper and unlawful political, personal and ideology, ideological reasons. The acting Attorney General stands by all of his statements. So that right there is in relation to the audit agreement. Remember, there was the weaponization fund and then there was an audit agreement that prevented the IRS and the Department of Treasury from auditing Donald Trump, Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization for years prior to 2026. They executed this in May 19, 2026. And the audit agreement essentially says for any year prior, they can't face a audit. Well, this confirms that not only is it retroactively, which we already knew, I don't think anyone read it to mean that it meant all future audits as well. You can't really do that legally. You can't immunize someone for future conduct, for future criminal conduct or future civil violations. That's not how it really works. This isn't like a pardon. So that's number one. And number two, if you read the original agreement, you, you also pretty much knew that it applied to the parties in the suit. And so John Cornyn's office put out a statement today saying, we're grateful that they came out, essentially that it only applied to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. But we knew that. And the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the President of the United states, the president's two sons, not including Barron, so Don Jr. And Eric, and the Trump Organization. And so they remain immunized from any audit in 2025, 2024, 2023. I mean, you go back, they are immunized. Now, there are some statute of limitations as it relates to certain IRS audits, but for tax fraud generally, there isn't a statute of limitations when you go far back. But now they are immunized. In essence, this is a self pardon and a pardon of his kids from IRS audits. But you can't pardon someone from an IRS audit because it's not a criminal, it's not a criminal violation, or it's not a criminal action, it's a civil enforcement action. If that. It's an audit, it's not really even an enforcement action. And so this is a workaround around him having to potentially try to immunize himself and his kids. And so when you look at this agreement, here's where things stand. Todd Blanche is going to get confirmed as Attorney General of the United States, at least through the Judiciary Committee. He may have trouble on the full Senate floor as it relates to other senators like Bill Cassidy, like Murkowski, like Collins. They could theoretically sink his confirmation. I don't have high hopes. They're concerned. Great. Be concerned. They're always concerned. Until they're not. But let me just break down what this means. In simplest terms, the weaponization fund is dead for now, only based on an agreement that wasn't signed by all the parties, which doesn't make it actually a valid agreement. The audit, while the audit agreement is still in place, Trump cannot be audited. Don Jr. Cannot be audited. Eric Trump cannot be audited. The Trump Organization, which arguably is where you would find all the skeletons if you're looking as you would go through their business dealings, not even their personal finances. The business finances cannot be audited for years past. And also, once again, there is nothing stopping, say, the Trump Organization from committing tax fraud in its filings next year. Let's say Trump getting upset, filing another sham lawsuit and executing another sham. Agreed. Right. For so long as the Department of Justice is under the purview of this administration and Todd Blanche is the attorney General, Donald Trump is immunized from any conduct, Any conduct. And I think that's what a lot of media today is missing in its reporting. And that's why I think this video is so important. Because when you look at what happened overnight from a legal perspective, we're not in a much different position today than we were yesterday. And that right there is the problem in all of this. Make sure to hit that subscribe button. Get us to a million subscribers, like comment, Share, get the word out and I'll have another update for you very soon.