President Donald Trump has agreed to drop his baseless $10 million lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the US Department of Justice — which answers to Trump — creating a $1.776 billion (deliberately patriotic 1776 price tag) slush fund for Trump’s allies, which could include the violent Jan. 6 criminals who Trump pardoned. The slush fund is called the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” reports MS NOW and NBC News:
The massive fund would give Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump a mechanism to seek taxpayer payouts for their claims of government overreach. The fund could even issue “formal apologies” to people who made claims against the government, the announcement said.
The fund will stop processing claims by Dec. 15, 2028, about a month before Trump’s second term is set to end.
The $1,776,000,000 available for the fund was based “upon the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” according to the Justice Department…
Asked by a reporter whether people who committed violence against Capitol Police officers should be eligible for compensation, Trump said “it’ll all be dependent on a committee being set up of very talented people, very highly respected people.”
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro was asked about the slush fund for criminals, and she quickly dodged the question.
(Sources: NBC News, Fox News, MS NOW, The Telegraph)