"dollars in damages, not 10 million, not 100 million, 10 billion with a B, and the moment that number hit the headlines, legal experts everywhere started asking the same question. The election was rigged, it was a dirty election, and it's happening again right now in California. It's happening right now in California. Right now, look at what's happening in California. It's four days in California, they're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with it. You know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election. Do you have evidence? How exactly does a president sue the very government he leads and somehow expect that lawsuit to be treated like any other case in America? To understand why this lawsuit even existed, you have to go back further to a data breach that shook Washington years earlier. A former IRS contractor named Charles Littlejohn had gained access to sensitive tax information belonging to some of the wealthiest people in the country, Trump included, and leaked it to major news organizations. That leak became one of the most consequential tax stories in modern American journalism, revealing details about how little federal income tax Trump had paid in certain years. Littlejohn was eventually caught, prosecuted, and sentenced to five years in federal prison for what he did. And I listen to people and let's see what happens. But sir, that's not evidence. Do you think it's appropriate that they count the votes in California? Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere close to picking? State and local officials acknowledge they are slow, they're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote in California. They're crooked just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked. And meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's continue. Really? Well, you play right into their hands. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this rep. By every normal measure, the criminal side of the story had already been closed. The man responsible was already behind bars. But Trump's lawsuit wasn't really about punishing Littlejohn anymore, it was about extracting billions of dollars from the agency that failed to stop him. And the legal theory behind that number was almost as bold as the lawsuit itself. The math behind the $10 billion figure was where things really started to raise eyebrows. Trump's legal team argued that under a specific federal statute, every single person who viewed a news article containing the leaked tax information constituted a separate legal violation, each one worth $1,000 in damages. In other words, if millions of people had clicked on an article about the leak, each click theoretically added another $1,000 to the total. Stack that up across every news outlet, every reader, every republished story, and you get a number so large it sounds almost like satire. Legal analysts pointed out that even in the most catastrophic government liability cases in American history, including cases involving people who were physically injured cleaning up after the September 11th attacks, payouts rarely crossed $10 million, let alone $10 billion. So when this lawsuit demanded a thousand times more than some of the worst tragedies in modern US history, people started asking whether this was really about justice or about something else entirely. But then something changed and it wasn't just skepticism from outside."