PJ Vogt

Theme, original composition, and mixing by Armin Bazarian.

Additional production support by Noah John and Sean Merchant.

Our executive producer is Leah Reese-Dennis.

Thanks to the rest of the team at Odyssey.

Rob Morandi, Craig Cox, Eric Donnelly, Colin Gaynor, Maura Curran, Josefina Francis, Kurt Courtney, and Hilary Schaaf.

Thank you for listening.

We'll see you next week with a brand new episode.

This is Search Engine.

I'm PJ Vogt.

No question too big, no question too small, no question too taxing.

We were not supposed to have an episode this week, and yet here we are.

All because of a big national news story that has been developing.

A story that we here at the show have not been able to stop talking about.

President Trump's anti-weaponization fund.

The origin story of that fund actually begins years ago with an enormous IRS leak, a leak that let the American public see both Trump's tax returns as well as the tax information of hundreds of American billionaires.

It was obvious at the time that this was a huge story.

We covered it here at Search Engine.

What was not obvious, though, was where it would lead.

Jesse Isinger, a journalist at ProPublica, played a weirdly large role in the chain reaction that's led us to today.

So we asked him back to Search Engine Studios to help us understand what's going on here.