A federal judge threw out a settlement between the IRS and Donald Trump, concluding that the two parties to the case being settled were one and the same.
In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams accused the entire case of being a bit of play-acting between the president and an executive department entirely under his control. Williams said that Trump and the Treasury were using a sham case to lend “legitimacy” to a redirection of taxpayer funds toward Trump and his allies.
