Bobby Allen

U.S.

District Judge Kathleen Williams in Florida has ordered Trump's lawyers to respond to the former federal judges who claim the lawsuit that led to the fund is, quote, a fraud on the court.

Trump sued the IRS over the leaking of his taxes.

The case settled with a nearly $1.8 billion fund.

for those who claim to be victims of political persecutions.

The problem, according to the former judges, is that Trump is both the plaintiff and the defendant.

Trump filed a lawsuit as president, and he is the leader of the executive branch overseeing the IRS.

The former judges wrote that the lawsuit was an example of collusion and asked the court to investigate whether it had been deceived.

Williams says she is, quote, empowered to investigate serious misconduct.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

A North Carolina grand jury charged Comey last month with threatening President Trump based on an Instagram post of seashells spelling out 8647.

86 is slang for getting rid of something.

Trump is the 47th president.

The indictment said the image was, quote, a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president.

Now, Matthew Petraca, the lead federal prosecutor on the case, has stepped aside, according to a court filing.

It shows he has been replaced.

It didn't explain why.

Comey says his post wasn't a call to violence, saying to him, 86 was an expression of wanting to be done with something.

Comey's lawyers have said they intend to file a vindictive prosecution motion.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.