Welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence.

This is Monica from the Monica Perez show.

And I'm a goodaway from geopolitics and empire.com.

And I'm parallel mic of parallel systems.

We have so much news coming out of the U.S. that I'm going to launch the discussion with just a variety of newsworthy things that happened with Trump,

almost all of which are corruption-oriented.

And I've been keeping a document of, I'm going to do a show comparing the Biden corruption,

which I used to think was the most corrupt presidency or political career ever.

And now Trump, it's like death by a thousand paper cuts, though,

because his corruption can get so petty.

I don't know if I've mentioned this to you before,

but I have met in my life three people,

whether it was working with them or going to school with them,

whose names I have seen in the news as having benefited from an obvious fishy deal with Trump,

from buying pardons to settling suits that were totally legitimate and should not have been settled.

So I've seen a lot of little things and a lot of big things.

And let's launch the discussion with a conversation about his deal that he made. This is what he did.

He sued the IRS for a contractor who leaked his tax returns. And at the same time, he was suing the government,

whether it's the DOJ or other agencies for persecution of some kind for their raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Now, the leak of the IRS documents was from a contractor, not an IRS employee, and all of this smacks like a big, fat setup that they planted that. The IRS had a very good case saying we had nothing to do with that, yet they capitulated and made a deal with him that said he, all, now the IRS has a habit of

auditing all presidents. All presidents get audited. Now, Trump is saying he cut this deal where he is

not getting audited. He will not be, no, no matters will be pursued by the IRS. And I don't know if it's

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