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"Dictatorship in Action": David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund

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  Democracy Now! 3.32M subscribers May 20, 2026 Latest Shows Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... In a shocking and unprecedented move, the Justice Department issued a memo Tuesday saying the IRS is "forever barred" from investigating past tax returns of President Trump, his family, company and "related companies." It came just a day after the department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund to "compensate" people prosecuted for supposedly political reasons by the Biden and Obama administrations — a move expected to benefit January 6 insurrectionists, other Trump allies and even Trump himself. It's all part of an agreement between the Department of Justice and President Trump's personal attorneys in exchange for Trump dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — President Trump's former personal attorney — wi...

"Divorced from Reality": Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump's Primetime Speech

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  HEALTHCARE EXPLAINED!  AFFORDABL CARE ACT  DRUG PRICES: MATH FOR IDIOTS!  TRUMP CONTINUES TO CLAIM THAT HE REDUCED DRUG PRICES BY  600%!  PRICES CANNOT BE REDUCED MORE THAN 100% !  MATH FOR IDIOTS EXPLAINED!  Democracy Now! 3.11M subscribers Dec 18, 2025 Latest Shows Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation's unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says Trump's aides should be "wondering about the man's sanity" after Wednesday's speech. "This is utterly divorced from reality." Though Trump blames former President Biden for the poor economy, Baker notes that Trump had inherited an "incredibly strong economy by almost every measure imaginable." Democracy Now! is an independent...