Americans see through the smokescreen, and rendered their verdict in November 2024.

Jim Davis | May 25, 2026

The Democrats and the media (but I’m repeating myself) are profoundly dishonest, and there are a lot of “experts” they hire, with our tax dollars, who are even more dishonest.

I have degrees in statistical analysis and political science. I’m not an expert at anything, except research and eighth-grade math. But I’ve spotted a basic disconnect between the Democrats, common sense and the truth.

We had a president issue blanket pre-emptive pardons on his way out the door, to his entire family and his closest political allies, for crimes that nobody even knows about, that may or may not have been committed.

And for all the pardons except his son’s, there’s no indication that he even read them. He was hopelessly senile. A POC/LGBTQ committee, operating him like a Muppet every day for four years, signed those pardons with an Autopen.

Basic common sense dictates that it stinks like three-day-old roadkill in August. And the left-wing propaganda minions at CNN and MSDNC roll down the window, let the stench pour in, and don’t bat an eyelash.

In the waning days of the Muppeteer Committee’s frantic efforts to cling to its remaining shreds of power, Americans witness yet another stunning victory for accountability, as the Department of Justice reached a settlement in the long-running saga of illegal IRS targeting of Donald Trump.

Far from the corrupt enrichment scheme peddled by the Democrats’ propaganda bureaus, this outcome represented a principled stand against weaponized government. Trump could have pocketed $10 billion in statutory damages (26 U.S.C. § 7431) for this breathtaking breach of his private tax records while a private citizen.

Instead, he directed those resources toward an Anti-Weaponization Fund. It isn’t an “insurrection slush fund,” as detractors claim. This $1.7 billion fund will aid ordinary Americans, regardless of their political party, who are victimized by the same bureaucratic tyranny.

The lunatics of the left-wing fringe, predictably apoplectic, spun this as some unprecedented sweetheart deal. Yet once again, the facts tell a different story.

Trump received zero dollars personally. The audits against his businesses were dropped only for pre-settlement conduct — not some blanket immunity. The fund itself offers relief to citizens across the political spectrum who suffered under the politicized assaults of Lawfare apparatchiks.

Compare this restraint to the Biden Crime Syndicate’s Autopen orgy of self-dealing. Blanket, pre-emptive pardons shielded Hunter and James Biden, Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, the entire January 6 Committee and all of its staff and witnesses from scrutiny over crimes both known and unknown, complete with an 11-year window of protection and zero public accountability.

The Trump settlement wasn’t corruption; it was restitution.

Previous administrations, including Obama’s (Keepseagle v. Vilsack, $760 million), funneled massive tax-funded settlements through the Judgment Fund without congressional appropriation — often against the advice of career officials — and received glowing coverage from the usual suspects.

When Trump employs the same mechanism to shield past and future victims, rather than enrich himself, suddenly it’s a constitutional crisis.

The sheer hypocrisy reveals the 11 years of Lawfare waged against the former — and future — president: endless tax-funded investigations, prosecutions, civil lawsuits, choreographed leaks, and impeachments designed not to pursue justice, but to badger and cripple a political opponent.

The Democratic Party Deep State (DPDS) and its media allies have long treated the tax code, intelligence agencies, and courts as weapons.

• Discriminatory denial of tax-exempt status to Tea Party groups, followed by Lois Lerner’s mysterious hard drive crash, erasing all her emails? The press says, “We’re not interested.”
• Unauthorized leaks of Trump’s returns? Crickets from the press about the leaker’s federal felony, but what he leaked induced a media feeding frenzy.
• Biden family influence-peddling, documented across continents, bringing in untaxable millions from hostile foreign governments — even terrorist groups and drug cartels? “Nothing to see here.”

The pattern is unmistakable: one set of rules for the DPDS ruling class, another for everyone else.

Trump’s decision to forgo personal gain in favor of a compensation pool for Jan. 6 defendants, FACE Act targets, and other victims of political persecution exposes the fraud at the heart of the “democracy dies in darkness” crowd.

Congress has shown zero appetite for legislating remedies for these citizens. This fund was the only practical path forward.

The propaganda bureaus for the Democratic Party, of course, demand “judicial oversight” now — as if the partisan Democrats in judicial robes, who delivered one anti-Trump decision after another, only to be reversed on appeal and sometimes unanimously scolded by the Supreme Court, are impartial arbiters.

No prior president has ever endured this volume of simultaneous legal warfare, financial record leaks, and targeted audits. Pretending this is business as usual requires a suspension of disbelief that only the most devoted Useful Idiots of the DPDS regime can muster.

Ultimately, this settlement underscores a deeper truth. While the lunatics of the left-wing fringe hyperventilate about “threats to democracy,” the real danger has always been the unaccountable DPDS administrative state, operating as an extension of one political party.

Eleven years of Lawfare have failed. Americans see through the smokescreen, and rendered their verdict in November 2024.

True leadership means rejecting personal windfalls, to protect innocent “little guys” from past and future abuses — the exact opposite of the Biden model of “family, cronies and political tribe first, country last.”

The American people, exhausted by this spectacle and the parallel LGBTQ, transgender, DEI and “climate catastrophe” sideshow freaks, are poised to deliver their verdict at the ballot box once again this fall.

Jim Davis has written about dishonest Democrats, in Chicago and across America, from a safe distance in the Northwest Suburbs for half a century. His work has appeared in Daily Caller, Newsmax and American Thinker. You can find him as RealProfessor219 on Rumble.