One went to prison for the truth: hundreds are about to get paid for insurrection
Key takeaways
- Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification.
- One man went to prison for telling the truth about a president s tax returns.
- Last Thursday, ABC News reported that Trump s Justice Department is preparing to drop the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS in January.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images) Charles Littlejohn is serving five years in federal prison for leaking President Trump s tax returns. The men who beat Capitol Police officers with American flags are about to be paid out of the same Treasury that locked him up.
That is not commentary: that is the math. One man went to prison for telling the truth about a president s tax returns. Sixteen hundred rioters are about to be paid for attacking the U.S. Capitol to overturn a national election.
Last Thursday, ABC News reported that Trump s Justice Department is preparing to drop the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS in January. In exchange, the government is to create a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded fund, to be run by five with no transparency by people Trump picks and whom he can fire. The first checks are expected to go to the nearly 1,600 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.