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Here is a corrected transcript, edited for clarity:
Good morning, as you’re watching this, it is Friday morning, April 24th. I’m recording it Thursday morning, April 23rd. It’s taken me a full week to process my rage about what I’m going to talk about here.
It just made me so mad—and I’m usually pretty good about keeping my emotions in check, especially when it regards me working and writing my articles and doing these videos and stuff like that. Like, I’ll rant, but I’m not, like, mad. This made me so mad that I had to stop working. Like, I couldn’t functionally sit down and type sentences like I usually can. I had to wait.
So now it’s a good week later after I initially started to think about this and what it means. And why am I enraged? Because the US taxpayer, i.e. me, i.e. you (if you’re watching this in the United States)—we’re going to cut Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, we’re going to cut them a big fat check. Now, it’s not going to be for $10 billion, which is what they’re asking for. It’ll probably be for tens of millions. It could even be hundreds of millions. That’s where we’re at.
Why would we be doing this? Why would the U.S. taxpayer just flat-out be coughing up that much money to these criminals? Well, in January of this year, 2026, Donald filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. So let me read it. This is Trump versus IRS. And the summary is written by Claire Pollard over at the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse:
On January 29, 2026, Plaintiffs, President Donald Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Treasury. Plaintiffs sought at least $10 billion in damages as recompense after Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, illegally accessed and disclosed their confidential tax returns and related information between May 2019 and September 2020. Plaintiffs claim that Defendants had a duty to safeguard and protect Plaintiffs’ confidential tax returns and related tax return information from such unauthorized inspection and public disclosure. See 26 U.S.C. § 6103, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. They seek punitive damages, attorney’s fees, and costs.
This case is ongoing.
So the template for this has already been established. Mike Flynn—who Mueller indicted, and who pled guilty, and who Trump pardoned before he could be sentenced—Mike Flynn sued the Department of Justice and was just paid $1.25 million for his troubles. Carter Page, whose name we haven’t heard in a while—he was a big character around the dossier, from 2016. Carter Page, just this week, was also paid $1.25 million, you know, just to help make him feel better.
It’s not enough in the Trump administration that we just hand out pardons to crooks. We also now have to pay them. You know, it’s like a business expense. Here you go, Mike Flynn. Here’s 1.25 mill. Don’t spend it all in one place.
So that’s the template. And it’s the template that Trump himself is trying to exploit with this ridiculous lawsuit. Now, Trump’s suing the IRS for not properly safeguarding information and data. It reminds me a little bit of Howard Lutnick suing American Airlines right after 9/11 for not being able to stop the hijackers. It’s just a dick move in general. It’s especially a dick move when you’re the president of the United States.
And also a dick move because, like, what damage was actually done here? The New York Times ran some articles about the taxes, ProPublica ran some articles about the taxes. Nobody gave a shit. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. Certainly the perception of Trump didn’t change. The people that thought he was a crooked asshole continued to think he was a crooked asshole. And the people who thought he shat ice cream continue to think that he shits ice cream, which he does not.
Now, let me take you back to 2016, 2017, 2018. This was a time when everybody wanted Trump to release his taxes. Everybody wanted him to release his taxes. David Korn, the journalist over at Mother Jones, almost every day would tweet out,”Today is a good day for Donald Trump to release his taxes.” And Trump promised to release his taxes. Oh, I’m being audited. I can’t release them because I’m being audited. We’re gonna do it in two weeks. We’re gonna release some of them. Here’s, look at all these papers of taxes that I have. There’s so many taxes, all the taxes, whatever he said—all bullshit, right?
So Trump’s taxes became kind of this holy grail for people on our side who wanted to expose this guy for the criminal that he is. And one man took it upon himself to go into the database of the IRS and get the taxes that we were all collectively asking for.
And he did it intentionally.
He gets a job with a contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, which works with the IRS managing the databases. He starts working. While he’s there, he’s figuring stuff out. How can I get information out without getting caught? Probably I’m gonna get caught because the safeguards at the IRS are actually really good. And when you take information out, you do get caught, which is what happened to him.
But he did it anyway, because he knew how important it was for the public to get this information. He did it anyway. And his name is Charles—he goes by Chaz—but it’s Charles Littlejohn.
Little John, that’s his name! In this Robin Hood campaign against Trump, in this case of we the people standing up to this guy, he’s literally named after Little John, one of the guys in Robin Hood’s band of merry men!
So he decided to do it and he got caught. This is from the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs:
According to court documents, Littlejohn, 38 of Washington DC, while working at the IRS as a government contractor, stole tax information associated with the high ranking government official, Public Official A—just might be Trump. Littlejohn accessed tax records associated with Public Official A and related individuals and entities—maybe Trump Jr. and Eric and the Trump Organization—on an IRS database after using broad search parameters designed to conceal the true purpose of his queries.
He then uploaded the tax returns to a private website in order to avoid IRS protocols established to detect and prevent large downloads or uploads from IRS devices or systems. Littlejohn then saved the tax returns to multiple personal storage devices, including an iPod, before contacting News Organization One—which might be the New York Times. Between around August 2019 and October 2019 Littlejohn provided News Organization One—possibly the New York Times—with the tax return information associated with Public Official A—Trump. Littlejohn subsequently stole additional tax return information related to Public Official A—Trump—provided at News Organization One—the New York Times. And then beginning in September 2020, News Organization One, the Times, published a series of articles about Public Official A’s tax returns—Trump’s tax returns—using the tax return information obtained from Littlejohn.
In July and August 2020, Littlejohn separately stole tax return information for thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals. Littlejohn was again able to evade detection by uploading the tax return information to a private website. In November 2020, Littlejohn disclosed this tax information to news organization 2, ProPublica, which published nearly 50 articles using these stolen data. Littlejohn then obstructed the forthcoming investigation into his conduct by deleting and destroying evidence of his disclosures.
So in other words, this is exactly what we wanted. This is like in Andor when they’re stealing the plans for the Death Star. This is the whole thing. This is what we wanted. We know it’s against the law. The guy did it anyway. That’s what he did. And now Donald Trump has sued the IRS for allowing this to happen.
Even though, I mean, how many breaches of data have there been in the Trump administration? How many breaches of data has Elon Musk been responsible for, or DOGE—the little bratty kid that stole all the data, right? The DOGE kid that’s like 20. This happens all the time with these people. They’re constantly stealing our data. Palantir is sucking up our data right now. There’s data being taken on all kinds of devices we don’t have any idea about, blah blah blah. But God forbid that somebody with the intentions of public service should go in and take data relating to the guy that’s supposed to be president and might have conflicts of interest. You know, maybe if more people had taken this seriously, we wouldn’t be in this predicament right now. But no.
It gets worse. Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, who is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, wrote in a tax publication a great article about this guy, Littlejohn, and the sentencing and how the sentencing was unfair. Be pleaded guilty, he did the crime, did the time, whatever. Here’s what Avi-Yonah wrote:
Under the sentencing guidelines, his maximum sentence was 10 months, but Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced him to five years, or six times the maximum sentence, on the grounds that others must be deterred from doing the same. In her remarks, she compared Littlejohn with some of the January 6 defendants…
What the fuck is that? And Avi-Yonah goes on to say:
But is deterrence necessary in this case? Not really. There is a reason why IRS workers almost never leak tax information: They know that (like Littlejohn) they will likely be caught because it is easy to discover who accessed the relevant returns, and that they will lose their jobs and probably go to jail. Ten months in jail is a sufficient deterrent, and most IRS employees do not value the public’s right to know over their own personal freedom. Littlejohn’s sentence is particularly harsh in comparison with some recent sentences meted out to blatant tax evaders.
He goes on again to say,
it is important that the IRS combat tax evasion by the rich because doing so bolsters the public perception that the system is fair and therefore that they should pay their taxes. Going after Littlejohn, on the other hand, creates the perception that the system protects the interests of the superrich taxpayers whose returns he leaked, some of whom are suing the IRS for a breach of privacy.
Gee, the system is designed to protect the super-rich? That’s exactly what it’s designed for!
Okay, last paragraph from Avi-Yonah:
Finally, lighter sentences are also common in cases involving massive leaks of private information. If what we care about is harm to individual privacy interests, the former chief security officer of Uber was sentenced in 2023 to 3 years of probation for covering up data breaches that involved the user records of millions.14 Also, in January three Department of Homeland Security employees were sentenced for stealing, inter alia, personally identifiable information from government databases and disclosing it to software companies overseas. They were sentenced to shorter terms of imprisonment (4 and 18 months) or probation (2 years).
So all of that is disgustingly unfair. We have Trump suing, we have reports that Trump and the IRS are going to come to a settlement, which has to be agreed to by—the IRS falls under the purview of the Treasury Department, run by Scott Bessent, one of the most lickspiddly obsequious jerks that we have in all of government, who, spoiler alert, is going to pay Trump the money at some point, as soon as there’s political cover for him to do so.
That’s disgustingly unfair. All of it is unfair. The lawsuit itself is disgusting. That it should even take place as disgusting. Now these other rich assholes are gonna do the same thing. Musk and Zuckerberg and whoever else was in this leak that ProPublica was writing about. Now they’re gonna be like, Trump sued? We’re gonna sue too. And we’re gonna have to pay these rich assholes even more of our money.
That makes me mad. That pisses me off to no end. But it’s not even that. It’s not even the lawsuit. It’s not even the unfairness. This is just theft. This is just plunder. This is pillage of our money by these disgusting criminals, these disgusting oligarchs, these traitors. They’re just traitors. That’s all they are.
But here’s the other thing that made me mad, thinking about it.
Now, again, back in 2016, 2017, we wanted someone to do this. We were begging for someone to release the documents, the tax files of Trump. I mean, you could go look on Twitter, how many people said this? And this man, Chaz Littlejohn, does it. He does what we wanted him to do.
Does he do it to make money for himself? No. He does it to reveal what’s happening, to reveal the fuckery that’s happening, the end-around bullshit by these horrible people. He does it for the public good—in the same way that Reality Winner disclosed her information for the public good, to show that Trump and the Russians were operating together. Okay? Same idea. Reality Winner didn’t make any money from that. She wasn’t trying to game the system for personal gain. She was trying to get the truth out, just like Littlejohn was trying to get the truth out. And they both went to jail and remained there for longer than they should have.
Now, Biden was president for four years during this. He could have commuted their sentences, he could have pardoned them, and he didn’t. He didn’t. He pardoned his fucking son, which I supported at the time and I still do. But if you’re going to pardon your son, you better the fuck pardon Reality Winner and Chaz Littlejohn.
Why not? Why? Why did they deserve to be in prison? All of the sudden, Trump is pardoning everybody. The J6 guys are out, the seditious conspiracy guys are out. All of these fraudsters are out. Not only are the fraudsters being pardoned, but they’re not having to pay the money they owe to the people they ripped off. It’s so disgustingly corrupt.
But God forbid the Democrats should do something like that and reward people, individuals, true patriots for trying to do what’s right and get the truth out. When Trump’s minions break the law, he pardons them. The rare times when a good guy does it to expose Trump, the Dems hang them out to dry.
It’s disgusting. It just makes me sick of the whole thing.
I don’t know, that’s all I got. So prepare yourselves, because I don’t know what’s gonna happen with Iran. At this point, it’s Thursday morning, 7 a.m. By the time you watch this, we might already have hit them again, because there’s all this weird stuff happening with the military right now.
And that is just going to be a cover. Because there will be a time when there will be a settlement. The only question is how much money are Donald Trump and Junior and Eric going to extract and plunder from the government, i.e. from you and me and all of us.
It’s disgusting. And it’s just emblematic of this whole regime, and it has to stop.
If you’re around in Woodstock on Sunday, I’m doing a Writers Resist event at the Bearsville Theater. Please come check it out if you’re around. There’s a lot of really great writers on the docket speaking with me. That’s gonna be a great event.
In the meantime, we shall prevail.
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