In the span of 48 hours, the U.S. government acting on orders from the Trump Justice Department

did something no administration in American history has ever done before.

It created a nearly $1.8 billion fund, drawn from taxpayer money designed to compensate allies of the president

who claim they were mistreated by the Biden Justice Department.

Then the administration permanently banned the IRS from ever examining President Trump's

prior tax returns, or those of his sons, his company, or any affiliated trust.

That move was quietly announced a day later, tucked into a DOJ press release.

And there is a third development.

New federal ethics disclosures reveal more than 3,700 stock trades made under President

Trump's name.

And companies like META, Amazon, and Disney, among others, worth up to around $750 million

in just the first three months of this year.

That's on top of crypto ventures tied to the Trump family

that have reportedly made more than $1 billion in profits so far.

We're going to focus now squarely on that IRS settlement

with former IRS Commissioner John Koskinan,

who ran the agency in the Obama and

First Trump administrations. Thank you for being with us.

Happy to be here.

So let's back up a bit, and we should say that this original grievance stemmed from a leak.

An IRS contractor stole President Trump's tax returns during his first term, leaked them to

reporters. That contractor was caught. He went to prison for it. Given that he was caught and

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