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UnJustified

Takes the Cake

UnJustified

MSW Media

News, History, Politics, News Commentary

4.77.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Department of Justice has established a $1.8B “anti-weaponization fund” after Trump dropped his lawsuit against the IRS. A former federal prosecutor has been indicted for sending herself copies of Volume II of Jack Smith’s final report. A federal judge has dismissed the charges against Kilmar Ábrego García on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds. The Justice Department has dropped all remaining charges against the Broadview 6 after a grand jury transcript showed gross misconduct. Plus listener questions.

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0:06.0

The Department of Justice has established a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund after Trump dropped his lawsuit against the IRS.

0:16.3

A former federal prosecutor has been indicted for sending herself copies of Volume 2 of Jack Smith's final report disguised as cake recipes.

0:24.6

A federal judge has dismissed the charges against Kilmar-Brego-Garcia on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds.

0:32.6

And the Justice Department has dropped all remaining charges against the Broadview Six after a grand jury transcript showed gross misconduct.

0:41.6

This is unjustified.

0:50.2

Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 70 of Unjustified.

0:53.7

It's Sunday, May 24th, 2026. I'm Allison Gill.

0:57.7

And I am Andy McCabe. And Allison, we're going to dive right in because we got some miles to cover here today.

1:06.5

So last week, you will recall, we briefly mentioned a potential, then potential, forthcoming

1:13.4

$1.8 billion slush fund that the DOJ is calling a settlement between Trump, his sons, and the IRS.

1:21.3

And we said last week that we'd wait until this week to see what unfolded.

1:25.4

And a lot has happened.

1:29.3

My God, the country's on fire over this,

1:35.2

as it should be. Yeah. So it's a story. It's been dominating the headlines all week. And of course,

1:40.7

since we recorded our last episode, Donald Trump filed a notice to the court that he was dropping his $10 billion lawsuit. Now, he didn't need to ask for permission to do this because

1:45.8

the IRS never answered his complaint. And so that allowed him to unilaterally drop the case.

1:53.0

He made no mention in his notice of any sort of a settlement. Yeah. And after that, the judge noticed that. She closed the case, right? But she made

2:04.0

mention of the fact that there was zero mentions of any settlement, no terms of any settlement in the

2:09.8

notice, and that there's no settlement of record. So whatever the Department of Justice would do next

2:15.9

would not be a settlement of that case that she just

2:18.5

closed. That was her purpose in saying that. And then NBC reported that the Justice Department

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