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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from David Rothkopf, subscribe here . Let us start with the plain facts, please. The president of the United States has not reached a settlement with the United States government regarding the IRS release of his files. There was no case to be settled. A judge was about to throw it out. The case they asserted existed was meritless. The president was effectively on both sides of the issue, seeking to use a fabricated claim of harm as leverage in a negotiation with himself. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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