Robert Reich: Here's How To Counter Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS

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Link: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-counter-trumps-10-billion

Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion.

He accuses the IRS of not doing enough to prevent a former IRS contractor from leaking Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in 2020. (Using those tax returns, The Times published a series of articles revealing that Trump had paid little or no income tax for many years.)

On February 18, Trump’s lawyers served the government with the lawsuit, giving the Justice Department 60 days to respond — a deadline that will be reached, ironically, just around tax day, April 15.

So who’s representing you and me and other American taxpayers in this lawsuit? After all, if he wins, we’ll be the ones to have to fork over the $10 billion to him.

This is beyond bizarre. Trump heads the executive branch of the United States government. And since being installed as president for the second time, he’s consolidated that power into the closest thing to a dictatorship we’ve ever had in this country.

He’s decided on his own to wage a war in Iran, decided on his own not to spend money that Congress has appropriated, decided on his own to move money from one purpose to another, decided on his own to shut down entire federal agencies without Congress’s okay, decided on his own to fire the heads of “independent” agencies and to fire “independent” inspectors general.

He’s also taken over the Justice Department — instructing his attorney general to prosecute particular people he deems to be his enemies and to pardon those he believes are his friends and supporters (including 1,200 people jailed for rioting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021).

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Wow, Robert Reich makes a very good point here.... The "immunity" that the Supreme court gave Chump doesn't cover Chump's nuisance lawsuit against the US Government. So he can be countersued and taken to court! Please read the rest on Reich's daily blog.