<div> <p>The Secret Podcast is available exclusively to paid subscribers of The Bulwark. You can join on Apple Podcasts, Substack or YouTube!</p><p>Last night news broke that President Trump would drop his $10b lawsuit against the IRS if the people who work for him at the Justice Department would create a $1.7b fund out of taxpayer dollars and allow him to appoint five commissioners to run this fund and they would award money to anyone they deemed fit.</p><p>Oh, and that the list of people given money would be secret. And Trump could replace the commissioners any time he wanted, for no reason.</p><p>The Trump administration is positioning this as a “truth and reconciliation commission.” Which is amazing.</p><p>For a decade JVL (and to a lesser extent Sarah) have wanted a truth and reconciliation commission to document accounts of what people did during the Trump era. And now the monkey’s paw has granted their wish.</p><p>We get a truth and reconciliation commission designed to help the people who did the Trump era.</p><p>As you can imagine, Sarah and JVL have a lot to say about this. Strap in.</p></div>