JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy." pic.twitter.com/osy0V3QLyN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 25, 2026
A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.Nixon didn’t go down for the Watergate break-in. He was forced out because the public was outraged by his corruption.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently briefed" — while adding that she "greatly appreciates" what they had offered.
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Scores of former federal judges, state attorneys general, and former senior government officials flooded the court with briefs demanding that Williams reopen the case and investigate.
"The parties have used this lawsuit as a justification for 'looting' American taxpayers," 35 former federal judges wrote, calling it a "fraud on the court."
Twenty-three state attorneys general called it a "corrupt effort to 'defile the court itself'" — arguing the settlement handed Trump's family immunity from IRS audits with no legal basis.
Former IRS and Justice Department officials — including the agency's former commissioner — argued the deal would enshrine two separate tax codes: one for Trump's family, one for everyone else.
Read the room, idiot.
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