Trump's new 'gargantuan shakedown' may be the last straw for voters: expert [View all]

By Matthew Chapman
Published May 7, 2026 10:08 AM ET

President Donald Trump has for years gotten away with flagrant corruption and self-dealing off of the apathy of the American people, Mona Charen wrote for The Bulwark on Thursday — but that may finally be coming to an end.

The extent of his excesses, she wrote, can be seen in the "gargantuan shakedown" Trump is trying to stage against the IRS, which started because a whistleblower working for an IRS contractor leaked information about Trump's tax returns.

"Trump and his sons sued the IRS for the aforesaid $10 billion, alleging that the leak had caused them 'reputational and financial harm' and 'public embarrassment,'" wrote Charen. "Hmm. The financial harm claim is risible — is the Trump family really arguing that, if not for this leak, they would have accumulated money even faster than they have over the past six years? As for embarrassment, it seems the Trumps bear the burden of proving they’ve ever felt such a thing in their lives."

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I did not make a bargain with this traitor...........the US Supreme Court and the maga senate made a bargain..........