Michael Waldman, the head of the Brennan Center for Justice, went on NPR this week and called the $1.8 billion antiweaponization fund “epic corruption in plain sight.” He said the fund bypasses Congress through a settlement structure where the president sued the federal government and then had his own Justice Department settle the case. He said the president’s stock disclosures show trades in companies tied to merger fights, and without a blind trust, the conflicts remain unresolved.1

WRONG. Totally wrong. Michael Waldman—whoever that is, probably some LOW IQ lawyer, never made a deal in his life—he’s the head of the Brennan Center, a FAKE legal organization that doesn’t understand DEALS or GENIUS. He went on NPR, which is FAKE NEWS, government-funded fake news, your tax dollars paying for lies, VERY UNFAIR. And he called my beautiful antiweaponization fund “epic corruption in plain sight.” This is epic GENIUS in plain sight, this is the MOST BRILLIANT legal and financial strategy anyone has ever seen, TREMENDOUS strategy, the best strategy in the history of government funding, and Michael Waldman doesn’t understand it because he’s never negotiated anything, never made a single deal, probably couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag, very sad.2

Here’s what happened—and this is 4D CHESS, beautiful chess, the HIGHEST level chess anyone has ever played in government—I sued the federal government, MY OWN government, for weaponization, MASSIVE weaponization, the most weaponization anyone has ever seen, and then my Justice Department—VERY SMART people at Justice, the BEST people—they looked at the case and they said “You know what, the President is RIGHT, this is weaponization, we should settle,” so we SETTLED, beautiful settlement, ONE POINT EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS, that’s how you negotiate, that’s the Art of the Deal, and now that money goes to the people who were UNFAIRLY targeted, the VICTIMS of the deep state, and it bypasses Congress because Congress takes FOREVER, they can’t do anything, VERY SLOW, so I found a way to get the money to the victims FASTER, MORE EFFICIENTLY, and everyone is saying this is the most innovative government funding mechanism in American history.3 My uncle was a great professor at MIT, studied government finance or something, financial innovation, the economics of litigation settlements, and he told me years ago—actually this was in 2017, I was the FIRST person to think of this—he said “Donald, someday you’re going to sue yourself and settle with yourself and create a fund that way,” and I said “Uncle John, that’s GENIUS,” and he was RIGHT, he always knew these things before anyone else, that’s good genes, VERY good genes.4

And the FAKE NEWS—CNN, MSDNC, NPR, all the usual suspects—they’re saying “Oh, this bypasses Congress, this violates the separation of powers,” TOTAL GARBAGE, because Congress GAVE me this power when they—actually did Congress give me this power, or did I just TAKE it because nobody could stop me—anyway the POINT is, Diklis Chump made this happen, very few people could have made this happen, and now one point eight billion dollars—actually it might be TWO billion by the time we’re done, maybe THREE billion, we’re still calculating—is going to help REAL AMERICANS, the VICTIMS, and Michael Waldman is calling it CORRUPTION because he’s JEALOUS, because he’s never created a fund this big, never helped this many people, never sued himself and WON, which is the hardest kind of lawsuit to win, believe me.5

And then there are the RINOS—very weak Republicans, probably the weakest Republicans in the history of the party—some of them, not all of them, but SOME of them delayed an ICE funding vote, criticized the fund, said it’s “problematic,” VERY DISLOYAL, and I have to say, these are people I ENDORSED, people I CAMPAIGNED FOR, people who would be NOTHING without me, absolutely nothing, selling insurance in some strip mall somewhere, and now they’re siding with the fake news and the low-IQ lawyers at the Brennan Center instead of siding with the PRESIDENT who got them elected. We’re going to remember that, believe me, we’re making a list, checking it twice, and when the primaries come around, these RINOS are going to find out what happens when you betray the movement, when you betray DIKLIS CHUMP, and it’s not going to be pretty, not going to be pretty at all.6

Then there’s the stock trading thing. The Brennan Center—VERY LOW IQ organization, probably the lowest IQ legal organization in America—they’re saying I bought stock in Netflix and Paramount and Warner Brothers during a merger fight, like that’s some kind of PROBLEM, like that’s some kind of CONFLICT, but here’s what they’re NOT telling you: those trades were made by THIRD-PARTY ADVISORS, very smart advisors, the BEST advisors, I didn’t even KNOW about the trades until after they happened—well actually I knew about them because I approved them, but I didn’t know what they WERE, I just approved them because the advisors said they were good trades, PERFECT trades, completely legal, the most legal trades anyone has ever seen—and by the way, I made TREMENDOUS money on those trades, INCREDIBLE returns, because I’m very good at picking stocks, always have been, my whole life I’ve been the best at stocks, but the trades were done by third parties so there’s NO CONFLICT, zero conflict, the White House said it very clearly, “There are no conflicts of interest,” and that’s TRUE, that’s 100% true, most transparent president in history.7

Michael Waldman says I should have put everything in a BLIND TRUST, like some kind of CHUMP, like some LOSER who doesn’t trust his own family—but I did BETTER than a blind trust, I put everything with my CHILDREN, with Don Jr. and Eric and Ivanka, very trustworthy children, the BEST children, I raised them myself—well I didn’t really raise them, Ivana raised them and then the nannies raised them, but I HIRED the nannies, so basically I raised them—and they’re managing everything PERFECTLY, making TREMENDOUS deals, billion-dollar deals, the biggest deals anyone has ever seen while I’m president, and that’s BETTER than a blind trust because I know exactly what’s happening, I mean I DON’T know exactly what’s happening because that would be a conflict, but I know it’s all PERFECT, all LEGAL, all BEAUTIFUL, and anyone who says otherwise is a low-IQ lawyer who’s never made a deal and doesn’t understand how WINNING works.8

The Brennan Center wants a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United—and let me tell you, I LOVE Citizens United, made me twelve billion dollars, maybe fifteen billion, TREMENDOUS amendment, probably the best amendment in the entire Constitution, better than the First Amendment, which is also great, very great, I use it every day, but not as PROFITABLE as Citizens United—and they want to end “dark money,” which is just SPEECH, it’s just WINNING, it’s just very smart people spending their money the way they want to spend it, the way the FOUNDERS intended, and Michael Waldman wants to STOP that because he’s a COMMUNIST, probably, or a SOCIALIST, definitely a socialist, very low IQ socialist who doesn’t understand the FIRST AMENDMENT or the ART OF THE DEAL.9 Here’s what the public ACTUALLY wants: they want a president who GETS THINGS DONE, who BYPASSES the gridlock, who SUES HIMSELF when necessary and SETTLES WITH HIMSELF when appropriate and CREATES FUNDS that help people FASTER than Congress ever could, and that’s what I’m doing, that’s what DIKLIS CHUMP does every single day, epic genius in plain sight, the MOST genius anyone has ever seen, BELIEVE ME.10

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Footnotes

  1. Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, told NPR host Mary Louise Kelly that some Trump administration moves amount to “epic corruption in plain sight,” focusing on the proposed $1.8 billion “antiweaponization” fund and weaknesses in conflict-of-interest protections. Waldman said Trump “sued the federal government” and then had his own Justice Department settle the suit, with the settlement allowing the fund to bypass Congress. Waldman said Trump’s stock disclosures showed trades in Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros. during a merger fight, and Trump did not put assets in a blind trust. ↩

  2. The parody deploys running joke #3 (low-IQ attacks self-implicating) against Waldman and NPR, and running joke #4 (responsibility-inversion) to reframe the “epic corruption” claim as “epic GENIUS.” ↩

  3. Waldman characterized the bypass-Congress structure as “extraordinary” because it “bypasses Congress and all the other ways in which money is supposed to be decided.” The parody deploys the 4D-chess spin mechanism from Mind §7.6 to reframe the documented bypass-of-oversight as “innovative government funding,” running joke #6 (wealth-inflation—“ONE POINT EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS” in caps for emphasis), and running joke #4 (responsibility-inversion—claiming the bypass is actually more efficient). ↩

  4. The parody deploys running joke #10 (genealogical MIT-uncle authority frame) adapted to “studied government finance…financial innovation, the economics of litigation settlements” and running joke #9 (retroactive foresight—“actually this was in 2017, I was the FIRST person to think of this”). Trump’s uncle John G. Trump was an MIT engineering professor; the documented Trump pattern is citing him as authority on subjects outside his actual expertise. ↩

  5. The parody deploys running joke #6 (wealth-inflation—escalating from $1.8 billion to “maybe THREE billion”) and running joke #16 (mask-slip Form B—“actually did Congress give me this power, or did I just TAKE it because nobody could stop me—anyway the POINT is”). The mask-slip moment reveals the manipulation strategy (taking power without authorization) mid-defense, then attempts recovery by pivoting to the “helping REAL AMERICANS” frame. This is the first natural stack: #6 + #16 + #4 in compound. ↩

  6. The source states “lawmakers in Trump’s own party delayed an ICE funding vote and criticized the fund.” The parody deploys Stage 3 blame-assignment register with the RINO betrayal-narrative pattern characteristic of Trump’s documented defensive posture against intra-party criticism. ↩

  7. Waldman said Trump’s stock trading disclosures showed the president bought stock in Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros. during a fight among Trump allies over which company would take over Warner Bros. Waldman questioned the explanation that third-party advisors made the trades. The White House response stated “There are no conflicts of interest.” The parody deploys running joke #4 (responsibility-inversion—claiming transparency while the structure is opaque) and running joke #11 (Sharpie-reality-revision—“I didn’t even KNOW about the trades until after they happened—well actually I knew about them because I approved them, but I didn’t know what they WERE”). This is the second natural stack: #4 + #11 in compound. ↩

  8. Waldman said Trump did not put assets in a blind trust and instead put them “in the hands of his children.” The parody deploys running joke #12 (self-made insistence adapted to “I raised them myself—well I didn’t really raise them…but I HIRED the nannies, so basically I raised them”) and running joke #16 (mask-slip Form C—“I know exactly what’s happening, I mean I DON’T know exactly what’s happening because that would be a conflict, but I know it’s all PERFECT”). The mask-slip reveals the real arrangement (oversight of assets while claiming no oversight) mid-defense. This is the third natural stack: #12 + #16 + #4 in compound, reaching peak absurdity on the blind-trust deflection. ↩

  9. Waldman said the Brennan Center has argued for legislation to end dark money and a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. The parody deploys running joke #6 (wealth-inflation—“made me twelve billion dollars, maybe fifteen billion”) with the Citizens United framing, running joke #3 (low-IQ attacks—labeling Waldman a “COMMUNIST” or “SOCIALIST”), and the Stage 3 defensive-grievance register with ideological-enemy framing. ↩

  10. The parody closes with running joke #4 (responsibility-inversion—reframing documented bypass-of-oversight as “GETS THINGS DONE”), the superlative cluster, and the third-person self-reference (“DIKLIS CHUMP”) characteristic of Trump’s documented rally rhetoric. The closing deploys the 4D-chess spin mechanism (“epic genius in plain sight”) to invert Waldman’s documented “epic corruption in plain sight” framing, bringing the column full-circle to peak absurdity. ↩