She also noted that only #ToddBlanche signed the tax audit provision. The separate, 9-page agreement laying out the $1.8 billion #SlushFund was signed by Woodward & Frank Bisignano, who is serving as the “chief executive officer of the #IRS”, a newly created role [created by the #Trump admin in October 2025] that is not subject to #Senate confirmation.

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…Trump’s suit, as IRS officials laid out in their memo & other lawyers have noted, had clear legal flaws. Potential defenses against it include that it was filed after the statute of limitations, & that it incorrectly faulted the IRS for the actions of the contractor, Charles Littlejohn…. But the #DOJ never even made an attempt to contest Trump’s suit. Not a single government lawyer entered an appearance in the case.

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Lawyers for the fmr #judges hailed Judge Williams’s decision.

“The judges & their counsel greatly appreciate the seriousness with which the #court is addressing these grievous allegations,” said Norman Eisen, who represented the fmr judges for the nonprofit group, Democracy Defenders Fund. “We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter.”

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Judge Williams pointed to reporting by NYT that described how the #IRS had prepared a 25-pg memorandum outlining defenses against the suit that the #DOJ did not take up in court.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/admin/irs-trump-lawsuit-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Before she closed the case, Judge Williams had in fact questioned whether the lawsuit presented an actual conflict that she could adjudicate, given that #Trump was on both sides of the suit, bringing claims against a federal agency that he controlled. When she closed it, she noted there was no “settlement of record,” but shortly after, the #DOJ released its “agreement” foreclosing the action.

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Judge Williams’s decision came in response to court papers filed on Wednesday by a bipartisan group of 35 former federal #judges who urged her to bring the case back to life & dig into the details of the agreement to settle it.

The former judges said that Trump’s “#settlement” agreement raised serious questions about his “candor toward the court & manipulation of the judicial system.”

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After #Trump “withdrew” the suit, senior #DOJ officials released a pair of extraordinary agreements that settled the case by establishing a $1.8 billion #SlushFund to compensate people who claimed they were victims of government “weaponization” by Democrats.

The deal also conferred extremely lucrative tax benefits on Trump, his family & his businesses.

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But wait, there’s more!

A federal judge in Miami reopened #Trump’s $10B case against the #IRS in a striking turnabout, saying she wanted to investigate “grievous allegations” that the hasty deal to resolve it was “premised on #deception.”

The ruling by Judge Kathleen M. Williams to revive the case shortly after closing it was a significant blow both to #Trump & to the #DOJ.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share