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There also is, as you say, an equal protection component about the type of victim. That, I think,

is probably uphill battle because the government, as I said, is allowed to pick and choose

about what types of victims it wants to, harms that wants to remedy. We're talking presidents who sue themselves today.

Donald Trump has done the impossible.

He has settled litigation with himself on the basis of the creation of a slush fund

to pay off political supporters along with a shocking immunity agreement by which the government

never seeks to sue him again. Eric and Lawfare senior editor Anna Bauer have written a lengthy

examination of this whole mess of issues. We go through it all.

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