Hey, everybody. It's Alison Gill from the Daily Bean's podcast, and as I'm sure you've heard by now, Donald Trump is attempting to settle a lawsuit that he filed, which he basically filed against himself, to create a $1.7 billion taxpayer slush fund to pay off his political allies, including, but not limited to the 1600-plus January 6th

insurrectionists who attack the Capitol, and potentially himself and his two adult sons through

their business. He's about to turn the January 6th defendants into millionaires. To say nothing of the

likes of John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani,

Kenneth Chesbrose, Sidney Powell, Boris Epstein, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, the Oathkeepers,

the proud boys, and anyone else who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election, anyone else

who helped him with his coup. Now, millions of dollars of our money could go to them.

Our taxes that we thought we were paying to support things like food assistance and Medicare

and environmental protections and veterans benefits.

Nope.

1.7 billion straight into the pockets of his criminal co-conspirators to be distributed by a panel

of five people he picks and who he can fire without cause and have no oversight.

Now, this all started with a lawsuit filed back in January, January 29th, by Donald Eric and Don Jr.

In their personal capacity, not in the, you know, Trump in his personal capacity, not as president. And that lawsuit is against the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service for damages resulting from the release of his tax returns during his first term. They filed their suit in the Southern District of Florida because they live there, but also

probably because they were hoping to get Judge Eileen Cannon, the corrupt judge that dismissed

the Mara Lago documents case against Donald and his co-conspirators. But instead, they got Obama

appointee Kathleen Williams. That's the judge in this case. Now, after some legal back and forth since

January, Judge Williams wondered if she had jurisdiction to hear this case at all. Not because

of where it's filed, but because Article III of the Constitution requires that two parties in a lawsuit

can't be on the same side. And since it was unlikely that Trump or his IRS were going to argue otherwise,

unlikely that they would be adversarial, she appointed what's called an amicus curai,

a friend of the court to weigh in, or in this case, amici curi, friends of the court.

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