{"id":3723,"date":"2026-05-29T12:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/raskin-claims-trump-engineered-fraudulent-settlement-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:28:33","slug":"raskin-claims-trump-engineered-fraudulent-settlement-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/raskin-claims-trump-engineered-fraudulent-settlement-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin Claims Trump Engineered Fraudulent Settlement Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, <strong>Raskin<\/strong> made the inflammatory remarks during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Last Word&#8221; with host <strong>Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong> on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Democrat accused the Trump administration of orchestrating what he described as a collusive settlement arrangement after realizing defeat was imminent in pending litigation. Raskin claimed that former judges had performed a public service by intervening to expose the alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman alleged that Trump withdrew from the lawsuit after a judge scheduled a hearing for May 20th to examine whether the case involved collusion. <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports that Raskin characterized the subsequent settlement as engineered fraud perpetrated against the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin called on the presiding judge to exercise her authority under Rule 60 to reopen the case, nullify the settlement agreement, and terminate what he termed <em>the whole charade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat&#8217;s comments represent the latest salvo in ongoing partisan tensions over the Justice Department&#8217;s efforts to address what conservatives view as political weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies against Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donnell solicited Raskin&#8217;s commentary specifically on judicial motions and the potential application of Rule 60 as a mechanism for challenging the settlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Jamie Raskin called Trump&#8217;s DOJ anti-weaponization settlement fund a fraudulent scheme and urged a judge to reopen the case under Rule 60 after Trump withdrew following a scheduled hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":3722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[3806,196,3888,2475,3506,3887,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-department-of-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-fraud-allegations","tag-jamie-raskin","tag-msnbc","tag-settlement-fund","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}