🚨Appeals Court WARNS Trump over TAX CRIMES…

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals just. ripped the Trump regime to shreds and. they were not holding back calling the. Trump regime's behavior of entering into. a memorandum of understanding with. itself between the IRS and the. Department of Homeland Security. The DC. Circuit called the arguments absolute. weak sauce and said that the DC Circuit. and others will not hesitate to ensure. and let them be very clear that this.

message is disseminated to district. courts and others who actually can. potentially enforce the damn law that if. this memorandum of understanding. methodology continues, there will be. steep civil and criminal consequences to. any IRS personnel for engaging in this. behavior. Let me just pull back and. explain to you what went down. So, when we give our tax returns to the IRS,

there's lots of laws that safeguard the. confidentiality of those returns. There. are limited exceptions when that. information can be shared. Obviously, if. there's criminal conduct, an. investigation, potentially, you know, it. could be shared for tax fraud and there. are very narrow circumstances where the. information can be shared with other. entities. However, the Trump regime comes in, don't follow the law and rather than,

you know, have Congress pass a new law. or go through a legislative process or. anything like that, the Trump regime. enters into a MOU. Yes, the famous. memorandum of understanding, the. frameworks of frameworks of deals with. itself, right? Trump can't do deals with. anybody but himself. So, right the same. way Donald Trump previously did a deal. with his IRS to give him IRS. uh from future investigations, He did a. deal between the DHS,

um Department of Homeland Security, and. ICE, and the former acting ICE director, and Kristi Noem when she was at it, and. the IRS. They did a deal together with. themselves rather than a law being. passed that basically creates a new. exception of when uh your tax. information can be shared, and the. exception basically swallows the rule, if you will, and basically says, "Ah, if. they believe that you may not be here.

legally, they can basically share a lot. of information." Um your address, lots. of personal identifying information, because the Trump regime, far from going. after criminals, who they said the the. bad hombres, those were the immigrants. they were going to go after. No, no, no, no. The hard-working, tax-paying. immigrants. And by the way, I want you. all to go and watch. I'll I'll do. another video on this as well. Luke. Ridal from the Midas Touch Network. grilled border czar Tom Homan about all.

of their malicious policies of attacking. um children and parents at bus stops, and Homan was left completely red-faced. Shout out to the White House. correspondent at the Midas Touch. Network, Luke Ridal, who's just doing. such an amazing job. I just want. In in any event, they're going after. non-. criminals, people paying taxes. And how. do you know they're going after little. tax They're going after literal tax. data. People who pay taxes, which, you. know, when you run deficits and your.

debt's ballooning, you may want to bring. in tax revenue, but the Trump regime and. their idiocracy goes, "Aha, these are. people who are paying taxes and working. Let's target them, and let's create an. MOU where the IRS. goes and tells DHS, "These are people. paying taxes, so the taxpayers can be. targeted. And the DC Circuits like, "Now, if you want to do this, go pass a. law, but you you can't do MOUs with.

yourself like that." And they described. it as weak sauce. This is what they. said. The IRS asserts that the. preliminary injunction the District. Court issued to block this MOU. procedure, the IRS asserts that the. preliminary injunction is {quote}. "highly unusual and harmful because it. requires the IRS to provide the District. Court with prior notice of criminal. investigatory activity. That argument is. weak sauce where the District Court has. permitted the IRS to file any necessary.

notifications under seal, thereby. shielding any criminal investigative. activity from disclosure." Importantly, the District Court's advanced notice. requirement reasonably balances the. government's interest in making lawful. disclosures with the plaintiff's. interest in preventing unlawful. disclosures if made would likely be. difficult or impossible to remedy. Let's bring in Harry Litman. Talking. Fed's YouTube channel, Talking Fed's. podcast, Talking Fed's Substack. Rarely.

do you see a DC Circuit referring to the. argument as weak sauce, but I guess this. is where we're at in 2026. But beyond. the weak sauce phraseology, there is the. consequence phraseology of "We're going. to throw you in jail because you keep. violating our orders." And I think the. DC Circuit realizes, Harry, this Trump. DOJ is too damn corrupt to do it. probably. But we're putting you on. notice because tick-tock we've got 700.

less than 800 days until the next. election, which is music to a lot of. people's ears. And guess what? Statute. of limitations isn't going to save you. on that one. What do you make of it, Harry? >> Yeah, and and by the way, I'm seeing. more and more courts do this. We just. saw it yesterday in the case the sort of. notorious one that they're trying to. dismiss against the Indian billionaire a. district court is pushing back where you. wouldn't have seen that before under. rule 48a. We've seen a number of them.

But anyway, understand what this is. It. comes as no surprise. It is a dragnet. for immigration information one problem. The I mean we have this very detailed. set of protections in place backed again. to the Watergate era after which held. for some 50 years until these guys came. and set a blowtorch to all of it, but. it's really strict. So they're not. saying we're going to you know,

you're you're subject to contempt for. not listening to our orders, although. they are. This is the third time where. they said we've asked you for. information. You won't give it. But what. they're going at is the willfulness of. the violation under 6103 of the. provision of IRS information because. what the statutory scheme says is. if there's a special request, you can. sometimes provide some information.

about criminal investigations. Not and these you know, this is a common. kind of move of the the the Trump. immigration DOJ try to get stuff applies. only in criminal settings and throw a. the whole big net over it for people who. they want to deport, which is not a. criminal. violation. They want to just have a. civil violation and make them be.

deported. Anyway, here you know, bad. they do this MOU before anybody even can. catch his breath. They have gotten some. 50,000 47,000. addresses from the IRS has Department of. Homeland Security. They've requested. 1.28. million and the whole thing is bogus. because they're they're not showing. This is why you saw this last little bit. of you better tell me IRS, what's the.

criminal investigation you're doing. here? And that's where that's the weak. sauce answer. Well, we can't tell you. because it's a criminal. and the course is of course you can. We'll just put it under under seal. But. that's only the smaller part of the. problem. The bigger part is you have to. even if you do this sort of MOU etc. I. understand this is the most sort of.

protected safeguarded personal. information area and they're trying to. ransack it. You can sometimes get an. address. You can sometimes get some. information if you provide an address. And guess what? Department of Homeland Security is not. providing an address. Instead, they're. just putting in a few like a general zip. code or a few things like that and. wanting to to be able to get all the. info. And again, the Department of.

Homeland Security, what do they want to. do with the info? They want to go and. try to arrest people not on criminal. charges, which is the the sole time you. can do it. But rather as part of their, you know, crazy over the top immigration. initiative. And. so what Judge Pillard for three judges, unanimous panel as you point out on the. DC Circuit, is saying, "Guys, 6103 is a. criminal statute and you could violate.

it willfully. You got some splaining to. do." And in a typical fashion when it. comes time to do splay and they just. either put in attorneys or others who. just say nothing, provide the same non. answers a second time, a third time, and. now they've done it. The district court. asked for this stuff a year ago and. they're just not doing. So, here's Judge. Pillar pretty high up, right? DC Circuit. just below the Supreme Court saying.

the we're we're not playing around here, guys. This is a serious thing and you. better pony up some information. or really face some very. serious minor key. music. So, they're doing everything. wrong and they're doing it specifically, you know, it's it's effort number 88, whatever, to do a dragnet on immigration. folks who are not under criminal law.

investigation. So, they can't do it. They're trying to they're being. squirrely, trying to A, maneuver their way around it and B, not. explaining what they're doing cuz now. the rubber hits the road and they could. be looking at criminal penalty. So, it. you know, it's just the the same old. same old complete intellectual. dishonesty of trying to do. precisely what the law says you can't. do, namely get all this information on. people who are not subject to criminal.

investigation. But, Stephen Miller votes. perhaps can be deported. It's brazen. flagrant and DC Circuit puts them on. notice, you know, you're really cruising. for a bruising. >> Everybody, make sure you subscribe to. Harry Litman's YouTube channel. It's. called Talking Feds. So, after this. video ends, go search Talking Feds, subscribe there, watch some of Harry's. videos, put in the comments that Ben. says hello, and you'll really enjoy.

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