'Quite bad': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's slush fund woes are just beginning
President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization" slush fund is now facing jeopardy on multiple fronts, with one just pausing the fund and another reopening the Trump lawsuit against the IRS that formed the basis for it. And things could be about to get ugly for the president, former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara told MS NOW's Jen Psaki on Friday evening.
"Let'sjust start with Judge Williams' ruling tonight, whicheffectively reopens the IRS case that Trump supposedlysettled, kind of pulled it outof court, I guess," said Psaki. "Give us yourthoughts on how that order cameto be and what it means."
The key takeaway, Bharara said, is that "tonightwe're seeing the third branchof government as listed in theConstitution really assertingitself, right? You have thejudge you just mentionedreopening the case that you'vebeen talking about. You haveanother judge who's frozen thequote unquote, 'slush fund.' Andthe first judge undertook thething that happened at thebehest of and at the urging of35 retired judges."
This is notable, he said because "judges, whetherthey're in office or out ofoffice and still thinking aboutthe rule of law, have made avery important statement here" — and the sitting judge in the IRS case doesn't want to be complicit in "something that's a little too cute for school," and wants a proper investigation of whether the court system is being abused to help Trump pay his allies.
Ultimately, Bharara said, "I think it might bequite bad for theadministration when discoverytakes place, when the courtexamines things."
He finally noted that even as all this is going on, Trump and his allies are effectively living on a different planet in their response to this, with many of them more outraged at retired judges injecting themselves into the case than the actual improprieties they raised. And further, "notwithstanding theserulings that are that are very devastating to Donald Trump,what is the thing that DonaldTrump fulminated about at greatlength today? Not having hisname on the Kennedy Center."
"Soa lot of people revealingthemselves tonight," he concluded.
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