The end has begun for Donald Trump’s universally reviled $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and now it’s only a matter of time before the whole absurd construction collapses under its own corrupt stupidity.

Late on Friday, federal District Court Judge Kathleen Williams — who holds direct control over the sham lawsuit that started this misadventure — issued a four-page order that made clear she’s going to double back and fix the mess she enabled.

It started in January 2026 when Donald John Trump (the private individual) sued the IRS (under Donald John Trump, president). Trump (the plaintiff version) claimed entitlement to the modest fee of $10 billion to compensate for a leak of his tax returns in 2019 and 2020. Curiously Trump waited six years to bring the case until he had regained control of the federal government and the putative defendant agency.

The matter was assigned to Judge Williams, a longtime public defender appointed to the bench by Barack Obama in 2011. In late April, she expressed concern about whether the case was a sham intended to satisfy the legal requirement that a party must file a formal claim before tapping into federal funds designated to compensate those who have been genuinely harmed by the government. The judge noted that the lawsuit involved the same party (Trump) on both sides and raised concerns about whether the case might be “collusive.” Gee, Your Honor, you think? What tipped you off — Trump’s public declaration upon filing the complaint, “I’m supposed to work out a settlement with myself”?

Weeks later, both Trump-controlled parties tried to pull the plug on their own case. In May, the........

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