Full Episode: Sunday, May 17, 2026

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
No one goes to Hanks for his spreadsheets. They go for a darn good pizza. Lately though, the shop's been quiet. So, Hanks decides to bring back the $1 slice. He asks Copilot in Microsoft Excel to look at his sales and costs, to help him see if he can afford it. Copilot shows Hanks where the money's going, and which little extras make the dollar slice work. Now Hanks has a line out the door. Hanks makes the pizza, Copilot handles the spreadsheets. Learn more at m365copilot.com/work.
This Week with George Stephanopoulos starts right now.

**George Stephanopoulos** (0:34)
Retribution fund.

**Jamie Raskin** (0:36)
What we're seeing here is outright corruption.

**George Stephanopoulos** (0:39)
President Trump expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a taxpayer funded fund that could compensate his allies. Is it legal?

**Jamie Raskin** (0:48)
I don't even know how that's allowable to happen.

**George Stephanopoulos** (0:52)
Breaking overnight, he voted to impeach Trump. Now, voters have sent a sitting senator packing.

**Bill Cassidy** (0:57)
Let me just set the record straight. Our country is not about one individual.

**George Stephanopoulos** (1:04)
Up next, the most expensive House primary ever.

**Donald Trump** (1:07)
Thomas Massie is a disaster for our party.

**George Stephanopoulos** (1:11)
Can a red state Republican defy President Trump?

**Thomas Massie** (1:14)
It's a question of whether you can have even the slight bit of a dissenting vote.

**George Stephanopoulos** (1:20)
Kentucky voters will decide Tuesday. We're joined by Trump's target, Congressman Thomas Massie. Pump and pageantry.
But was there progress?

**SPEAKER_9** (1:31)
All I can say is, that was a great success.

**George Stephanopoulos** (1:35)
What comes next after the president's high-sakes China summit?

**SPEAKER_10** (1:38)
For the sake of democracy and the stability of the global economy, Trump must not sell out Taiwan.

**George Stephanopoulos** (1:45)
And of This Week exclusive.

**Carol Quillen** (1:47)
The White House is an iconic structure.

**George Stephanopoulos** (1:50)
The woman behind the lawsuit against Trump's ballroom gives her first interview.

**Jonathan Karl** (1:54)
Is this Trump derangement syndrome?

**Carol Quillen** (1:56)
I don't know what Trump derangement syndrome is.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:01)
From ABC News, it's This Week.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:04)
Here now, George Stephanopoulos.

**George Stephanopoulos** (2:08)
Good morning and welcome to This Week.
Right before he left for China, President Trump was asked if he was motivated to make a deal with Iran by American's financial situations. Not even a little bit, he shot back, adding this.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:21)
The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about American's financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all.

**George Stephanopoulos** (2:36)
Never mind the president's repeated claims that Iran's nuclear program was totally obliterated by US military strikes last June. This statement, packed with conviction, had Democrats cutting campaign ads, Republicans scrambling for cover.
It also put into stark relief how much of Trump's second term has been devoted to improving the financial situation of his family. Since returning to office, the president and his family have earned well over a billion dollars from overseas real estate projects, branded merchandise, cryptocurrency and more. Companies connected to his sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have been granted tens of millions in government contracts. And political allies like Michael Flynn and Carter Page have secured lucrative settlements from the Trump administration. But This Week could bring what critics call the most brazen move yet.
My colleagues here at ABC News broke the story. The Department of Justice is finalizing a deal to establish a nearly two billion dollar fund to finance payouts to Trump political allies who claim they were wronged by the government. It's how they proposed to settle the president's ten billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS. It could be announced as early as tomorrow. Critics are already questioning its legality, and it comes as so many American families are struggling with their own financial situations. J. O. Bryan starts us off.

**James O. Bryan** (3:53)
This week in the ten billion dollar lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against his own government, sources tell ABC News an unprecedented settlement deal is now being finalized. Trump filed suit against his IRS this January over his tax records leaked to the press by a former contractor in 2019 But now sources tell ABC News the president is expected to drop that lawsuit in exchange for what is expected to be called the President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission, funded with one billion seven hundred seventy six million dollars of taxpayer money to be used to settle claims brought by anyone, alleging they were harmed by what Trump and his allies call the weaponization of the justice system under former President Biden.