Ben Myselis
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And right there, Jeanine Pirro is basically reserving her right to, based on all of this made-up stuff, to launch investigations, which she just so happens to be a part of, this web, this rumor mill that exists on the right.
So what do you do when judges say, no, you can't do that?
Those aren't the rules.
What are you talking about?
I'm not going to allow that to happen.
Well, Donald Trump does one of two things.
One, he becomes both the plaintiff and the defendant in a lawsuit.
Back in January, he sues
the Treasury Department and the IRS for $10 million, and then tries to enter into a settlement agreement with himself.
He asks a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida, Judge Williams, to bless these settlement discussions.
And she's like, whoa, I don't have jurisdiction over this.
I can't have a case where you're the plaintiff and the defendant and you want me to basically bless a collusive, apparently, what looks like it could be a fraudulent settlement agreement.
I'm not going to go and bless this unless I have jurisdiction.
So explain why you're adverse and why this isn't just some phony case.
I'm going to step up and step up and assert my role as a judge to say, I might not have jurisdiction.
Give me your arguments why this is a real case to begin with.
You've already said, Donald Trump, you've already won the case before it's even been fought because you're both sides of the case.
So that's one of the tools of an authoritarian.
The other is appoint judges who are authoritarian enablers, who are bootlickers, right?
So that's why