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Judge says Trump sued IRS for 'improper purpose'; refers his lawyer to bar
Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was settled by the Justice Department with an agreement to create a $1.8 billion "lawfare" fund that has since been scrapped.
Summary
A Florida federal judge in a scathing order Monday said President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service "for an improper purpose" — to gain the appearance of "judicial legitimacy for a 'settlement' that had no viable basis in law or fact." That controversial out-of-court settlement with the IRS and Department of Justice in May briefly led the DOJ to create a since-abandoned $1.8 billion "lawfare" fund to compensate purported victims of prosecutorial overreach by the department.
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