{"id":18,"date":"2026-05-19T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:11:31","slug":"staggering-corruption-rep-raskin-on-trumps-10b-irs-lawsuit-stock-trades-family-business-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStaggering Corruption\u201d: Rep. Raskin on Trump\u2019s $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades &#038; Family Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both plaintiff and defendant. This comes amid reports that Trump\u2019s Department of Justice was considering settling the case in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate victims of so-called weaponization of the <span>DOJ<\/span> under the Biden and Obama administrations. Trump allies who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol could file claims and be compensated.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=17\">Trump\u2019s Christian Nationalist Agenda &amp; Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber &amp; Sarah Posner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want a $1.7 billion slush fund, which comes to a million dollars a head in terms of Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the insurrectionists, with $100 million left over of taxpayer money to spread around in different ways,\u201d says Congressmember Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who spoke with <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> shortly before news broke of Trump dropping the <span>IRS<\/span> lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=16\">FDA Chief Pushed Out in Latest Sign of Public Health Chaos Under RFK Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raskin last week introduced the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which is geared toward curbing the president\u2019s profiteering from public office. \u201cCorruption is the whole purpose of the Trump administration,\u201d says Raskin. \u201cIt\u2019s not like some eccentric peripheral thing; it\u2019s a vast money-making operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=14\">As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both plaintiff and defendant. 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