Just a final point to make on the Pigford II settlement and its anti-fraud provisions. The inspector general of the USDA will be conducted within 180 days of the beginning of claims determinations, so it will still be occurring while the claims are being adjudicated. The Government Accountability Office will also be conducting its audits during that time. Both agencies are able to forward their findings to the Department of Justice if they discover anything fishy.
Basically, what I'm saying here is that if there is "widespread fraud" in the Pigford II settlement, we're going to find out about it. Not because of baroque conspiracy theories implicating the president in a scheme to facilitate "backdoor reparations" but because the Claims Resolution Act forces the federal government to take a very close look at the claims process even as a third-party adjudicator is evaluating them. So in a couple of years, when the claims process starts, we'll know for certain. Perhaps it's obvious, but it bears repeating that the president and his Republican accomplices would likely not have passed a piece of legislation that creates a process by which their dastardly scheme to transfer America's wealth to the undeserving black masses could be discovered, and that the most likely intent of this legislation was in fact to rectify a terrible instance of past racial discrimination.
