Earlier this year, President Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of suing the I.R.S. for $10 billion dollars over the leak of his tax returns, which he had steadfastly refused to release, in 2019. This obviously created an "enormous conflict of interest," since the president was suing the very branch of government that he controls.
Predictably, Trump's lawsuit resulted in an abjectly corrupt "settlement" announced last month by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who had served as Trump's personal attorney before being appointed to the Department of Justice, creating a $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate MAGA activists who had supposedly been politically persecuted by the Biden administration.
The entire thing is so blatantly indefensible that Christian nationalist Trump cultist Lance Wallnau did the only thing he could do to justify it: Lie about it.
"The left is freaking out because Donald Trump has won a $10 billion suit against the IRS over the illegal leaking of his tax information," Wallnau declared during a recent episode of his "The Lance Wallnau Show."
"Here's what he said in classic, beautiful Trump fashion," Wallnau claimed. "'I don't want the money. I want the money to go to all the victims of the persecution that happened over the fake Russia [investigation], all the people that lost jobs under investigation by the rigged Russia collusion hoax, the way that the intelligence community went after people and targeted them. I want compensation for January 6 people that were locked up for six months, eight months, illegally, that weren't given their constitutional representation. people that suffered damages, let that money go to the victims of government persecution.'"
"That's what he did with the money," Wallnau continued. "This isn't Congress authorizing a billion dollars for people that support Trump. It's Trump taking his winnings and saying, 'I don't want the money, I want to help my people.'"
None of that is true.
Trump won no such lawsuit, and he is not giving away his own money to MAGA supporters. Rather, Trump filed a self-serving $10 billion lawsuit against the very government he runs and then had his former personal attorney announce that that government would be funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to Trump supporters and MAGA activists.
