We just paid Trump $1.8 billion to accept a get-out-of-jail-free card [View all]

We are all painfully aware that the IRS just created a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" because Trump had a sad that the FBI dismantled the Trump Presidential Library in 2022 by entering Mar-a-Lago and hauling off the truckload of classified information he had stored in a publicly-accessible bathroom.

This is worse: The Acting Attorney General issued a document that I'll reproduce the most important of the three paragraphs:

The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES each of the Plaintiffs from, and is hereby FOREVER BARRED AND PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuint, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action, appeals, or requests for any relief, including injunctive relief, monetary relief, damages, examinations or similar or related reviews, appeals, debt relief, costs, attorney's fees, expenses, and/or interest, whether presently known or unknown, that - as of the Effective Date of the Settlement Agreement - have been or could have been asserted by Defendants against any of the Plaintiffs or related or affiliated individuals (including, without limitation, family or others filing jointly), or parties including trusts, parent, sister or related companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries, by reason of, with respect to, in connection with, or which arise out of (1) any matters that were raised or could have been raised in the Case or the Pending Agency Claims; (2) Lawfare and/or Weaponization; or (3) any matters currently pending or that could be pending (including tax returns filed before the Effective Date) before Defendants or other agencies or departments.

In other words, not only does he get damned near $2 billion of your money, he can no longer be held to account for his creative accounting practices.