Retired Judges Call Out Trump’s “Unprecedentedly Fraudulent Scheme”

Key Points:

• A bipartisan group of 34 retired federal judges filed a motion urging a Florida federal court to reinstate a dismissed lawsuit filed by Donald Trump and his family against the U.S. government, calling the case a "fraudulent scheme" and alleging collusion.
• The original lawsuit, seeking $10 billion over alleged IRS tax information sharing, was dismissed due to conflicts of interest and being outside the statute of limitations; Trump voluntarily ended the suit after the dismissal.
• The judges claim the lawsuit's dismissal allowed Trump to misuse $1.776 billion from the federal Judgment Fund to create a slush fund controlled by a commission effectively led by Trump, intended to compensate individuals allegedly targeted by the Department of Justice.
• They accuse Trump of deceiving the court by using the lawsuit as a pretext for this fund and securing self-immunity from audits and claims without government consideration, labeling the settlement a fraud on the court.
• Invoking Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the retired judges seek to have the dismissal set aside and an inquiry launched into whether the court was misled, emphasizing the need to uphold the rule of law and constitutional accountability.