Trump pulls most CORRUPT stunt of second term
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trump is in the process of looting the federal government to the tune of $10 billion. Brian interviews Congressman Jared Moskowitz about Pam Bondi’s failure to appear for the April 14 deposition, Alex Wagner about the Republicans refusing to reign in Trump’s Iran war, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta about Ticketmaster-Livenation’s landmark loss in court.
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| 0:00.0 | Trump is in the process of looting the federal government to the tune of $10 billion. |
| 0:05.0 | And I've got three interviews. |
| 0:06.3 | Congressman Jared Moskowitz talks about Pam Bondi's failure to appear for the April 14th deposition. |
| 0:11.0 | Alex Wagner joins to discuss the Republicans refusing to rein in Trump's Iran war. |
| 0:15.2 | And California Attorney General Rob Banta talks about the Ticketmaster Live Nation landmark loss in court. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:25.6 | So Donald Trump is currently in talks to settle a $10 billion lawsuit. |
| 0:30.0 | Pretty normal. |
| 0:30.7 | Trump is always suing someone or some entity for some exorbitant amount of money, only this |
| 0:35.9 | one's a little bit different because this lawsuit |
| 0:38.2 | is against the IRS, his own IRS, the agency he oversees as president of the United States. |
| 0:45.3 | So here's the backstory. |
| 0:46.7 | A former IRS contractor named Charles Littlejohn had leaked Trump's tax returns to media outlets back in 2019 and 2020. |
| 0:53.5 | You might remember those returns revealed that Trump paid little to no media outlets back in 2019 and 2020. You might remember those returns |
| 0:55.0 | revealed that Trump paid little to no federal income taxes in many of those years. Now, little John |
| 1:00.1 | pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to five years in prison. So yes, he was caught, prosecuted, |
| 1:04.9 | punished, the system worked. But Trump decided that wasn't enough. He decided $10 billion of your money wasn't enough to leave on the table. |
| 1:13.4 | His lawyers have argued that even though Little John was technically a contractor, |
| 1:16.9 | that he acted as a joint employee of the IRS, |
| 1:19.3 | and therefore the government is on the hook for his actions. |
| 1:22.7 | And by government being on the hook, that means taxpayer funds. |
| 1:26.1 | That means your money and my money. |
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