Kate Shaw
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3,267 appearances
14 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Kate Shaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, Katie, I'm going to ask you to talk us through the opinion, but let me just remind everyone of a little bit of the background first.
So the suit was filed back in January.
It was ostensibly filed in Trump's personal capacity, and it grows out of this.
IRS contractors' disclosure of Trump's tax documents to some news outlets, including the New York Times, back in 2019 and 2020.
The contractor, to be clear, has already been sentenced to prison.
But this federal civil suit filed by Trump six years later, when he just happened to be back in the Oval Office, maintained that the IRS's failure to properly protect this confidential tax information injured him.
And to kind of redress that injury, he demanded once again of the IRS he controls $10 billion.
To be clear, the case should never have been in federal court.
Federal courts are only supposed to resolve cases and controversies between adverse parties, like parties that disagree about something.
And the oddity of Trump being on both sides of the V in this case is something that was not lost on Donald Trump himself.
So let's play a supercut of him talking about that oddity.
I know you got indicted, buddy, for classified documents retention and Espionage Act violations, but I wasn't familiar with the, quote, Mar-a-Lago break-in suit.
Evidently, he's rewriting the history of all of these episodes, including of that one.
So as to the IRS case, obviously he just kind of, as ever, says the quiet part loud.
He was on both sides of the case.
He was dictating the terms of the settlement.
And it's pretty clear that he decided to pursue this in federal court to frame this shakedown effort as a lawsuit to give this kind of shakedown the patina of legality.
Okay, so the judge actually picked up on those kind of dynamics from the start and asked for briefing about whether the case should be in court at all.
And lo and behold, before those briefs came in,
Trump and the federal government announced they had settled the case.
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