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Michael Macagnone

Michael Macagnone

Jun 2, 2026

3:43
Walk us through how we got here, if you could, and, and what these court rulings mean.
3:48
Yeah.
3:48
So the, the sort of unfortunate coincidence of timing that happened here was the Justice Department and the Trump and Trump family entities reached the settlement a couple of days before they had a court deadline to explain whether Trump controlled both sides and it wasn't actually a court case at all.
4:10
And that coincided with the possible, uh, uh, reconciliation votes in the Senate.
4:15
Um, so the administration, uh, chose to reach and announce that settlement a couple of days before they faced a court deadline that could have unraveled the whole thing.
4:27
Um, and then that coincided with the reconciliation votes kind of blowing up.
4:32
Um, now what's happened in the intervening couple of weeks, there were a couple of lawsuits that were filed against the fund.

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12:48
But Trump then sues his own government, saying they didn't do enough to protect his records, right? I mean, it's the most unusual suit, and it sounds like what the judge is now saying is she doesn't even know if this was a legitimate suit to begin with.

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