Hi everyone, Harry here. Remember the Judge Williams case in the Southern District of Florida in which the DOJ didn't even enter an appearance? Instead, Trump did.
Then he moved for voluntary dismissal and then the whole phony baloney settlement comprising the 1. 776 billion trust fund and the IRS amnesty. Judge Williams held after uh dismissing the case on the motion of Trump.
She reopened it and held that the whole thing had been a fraud on the court. You're permitted to reopen a a dismissed case in that instance. That um it was collusive.
Trump and the DOJ were on the same side. she's considering uh sanctions, but all the while the DOJ just stayed on the sidelines and Trump was carrying the water. Now, Trump, first of all, it took him a while to appeal.
And it was really um remarkable, as I said, that the DOJ didn't seem to even care about the case. When Blanch was testifying about the slush fund, he just said uh he disagreed with what the district court had ruled. He's read the 11th circuit law, etc.
As if that is uh the attorney general's private uh views about 11 circuit law is justification for not even following or citing what the uh district court had held. Well, now DOJ is in and with a vengeance. So Trump uh eventually appealed and his appeal is in the 11th circuit.
And that's uh on appeal and she has entered has in the uh district court the stay a possibility of sanctions and the like. Trump appeals and then he just files kind of out of nowhere a motion that's just not part of normal appellet procedure. Donald Trump's timesensitive motion to stay everything that Williams had done below.
So these uh there are certain sanctions having to do with there's a a attorney who's been held you can't even be in this court for a year given the fraud you perpetrated on the court. So Trump was not only appealing on the merits, but also he wants a stay. And then and it had to have been coordinated.
Uh the DOJ has come storming in with what it's stalling defendant. That's the DOJ, right? Trump is the plaintiff and contesting the uh terrible invasion of privacy when an IRS subcontractor looked at his taxes.
They've come in with a response to uh appellants time sensitive motion for stay. Notice it's a very weird caption. Defendants response to appellants time-sensitive motion.
They are not appellant. They're just the defendant below. But they did not take an appeal.
And I think the fact that they didn't take an appeal is part of the kind of maneuvering and coordination currently going on between Trump and the DOJ. And there's no doubt that is what's happening. So they come in now with their response.
Uh and it's not even clear whether they're a party and they style it amikas or defendant party response. It's so kind of ungainainely. they just haven't been in the case so far.
Now they are in the case but in a way that seems to very much and I think um Williams the judge will agree with this too uh substantiate the whole collusive relationship cuz they've come in very strongly for Donald Trump and in support of his motion for a stay that you know first they start out how terrible the conduct was of the IRS subcontractor. They're not even styling it that they're a party that this case is they're calling Trump versus 35 former federal judges cuz remember it was the 35 former federal judges who who uh submitted a a filing uh not as a party but a filing before Judge Williams and said man you are being defraed. You have every ability and right and she followed their suggestion.
Now they are acting nominally as the other side uh because the Department of Justice has laid down the entire time. But now they're here and they're saying we support this time-sensitive motion for a stay. Moreover, and then it's just a broadside uh ending with the really eyepopping feature moving the 11th circuit to recuse Judge Williams whom they uh accuse of improper political motivation.
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Well, they they say the timing of this was designed with zero uh evidence. The timing of it was designed to derail Todd Blanch's confirmation. Uh and uh she is a political actor.
Really, it's their old kind of solopsism. You're going after Trump, it must be political or you're opposing his legal position. So, they also say, "Oh, no, there was adversity here.
" uh and it's okay to do a settlement uh quickly even uh before you enter any kind of appearance all the things in other words that Judge Williams noticed they're trying to rebut in order to get the 11th Circuit first to put a freeze on what she's done and then take the case on appeal with the sanctions no longer operative and decide for Trump. So if the question is are the two of them on the same side, it's so obvious but they've in a ham-handed way they haven't said that they are the apple and they haven't uh said exactly that that they're in lock step rather they just present a whole legal position that is very clearly in support of Trump with a couple little wrinkles to try to uh suggest some you millimeter or two of distance between them. But what's happening is the United States supposedly on the other side of the V in this lawsuit has jumped it long ago and is staying there firmly.
They attack everything about Williams. Uh yes, there is adversity. Nothing wrong with it being decided uh early.
uh and then uh they, you know, just move on to completely uh demean and challenge Judge Williams for what? Basically holding something that is against Donald Trump. So now you have these two filings in short order.
The timesensitive motion, whatever that means. It's not he doesn't style it as an emergency. Uh but um it's it's about the um emergency docket in the sense that he wants the 11th circuit to stay the order by judge Williams below and uh then the US is completely in and if and they're they're arguing the same thing.
So it will fall to the 35 judges again uh to make the arguments and it has fallen to them about why in fact Williams is right. It it was um collusive. There really was no settlement agreement and the like.
At one point uh the United States says we can just give out a settlement based on nothing. But of course, that's not what Todd Blanch has been saying and it's not what the law says. Blanch has insisted, remember in the Senate confirmation that this has just been an exchange, a bargain, a settlement agreement where Trump uh agrees to get rid of his worthless lawsuit.
there's the fraud and the United States agrees to create this huge fund and give him amnesty, a deal, so to speak, that doesn't hold up to the first uh glance. So, we'll see what the 11th Circuit does with uh with this one, but it really shows that the action has definitively moved now to Judge Williams's case, the 11th Circuit, the very thing that Trump and the DOJ had been ignoring so far. Now they come in on a coordinated one two punch uh arguing reverse and do it quick.
It's so timesensitive. For what reasons it's unclear and bounce the judge. So uh one final point, the person in charge of this is a political appointee by the name of Trent Mart.
We've seen him in the last few days when a judge excoriated him for the sweetheart deal given to the Indian billionaire businessman who uh basically Mart the defendant's lawyer who happens to be the same lawyer as for Donald Trump. Bob Gifra constructed a sweetheart deal that the judge said, "I I can't force you to bring a criminal case, but this is mighty unusual and really uh as much as said, this is political action. " And uh where political action is happening now at the Justice Department, Tret McAd, the puditive deputy attorney general to replace Blanch, fingerprints can often be seen.
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