The ‘Deal’ on the $10 Billion suit against the IRS by Trump is a isn’t gonna make it….
The ‘Deal’ to pay those who heeded his call to try to stop the certification of the 2020 Election by bum rushing the US capitol is probably gonna go in the toilet also…
But?
To make sure?
Led by California Gov Newsom….
Governor’s (Democrats so far) are asking their their lawmakers to attach a $100 % tax on any Trump ‘slush money’ sent out….
Oh , and the payoff’s ARE becoming 2028 Midterm political hammer for Democrat’s to use….
“The slush fund is a blatantly corrupt theft of taxpayer dollars, and we need to do everything we can to stop it,” Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) said in an interview with The Washington Post. Bennet is the leading Democratic candidate for governor in Colorado.
“I actually think this won’t wear well with Republicans or Democrats in America,” Bennet said of the politics of Trump’s fund.
The issue is particularly relevant in Colorado, where Gov. Jared Polis (D) recently granted clemency to Tina Peters, a former county clerk who helped secretly copy voting machine hard drives in an effort to bolster Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance said it was “reasonable” that Peters “get some compensation” from the fund.
The Trump administration drew backlash from Democrats as well as some Republicans when it announced this month that it was establishing a fund to pay people who claim they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted, echoing the president’s claims of a “weaponized” justice system. Trump agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax records in exchange for creating the $1.776 billion pool of money.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving ahead with the fund as critics question how the money will be distributed and worry that it will go primarily to Trump allies.
Democrats in Congress reacted to the fund with outrage but have limited options to respond while they are in the minority. At the state level, however, Democratic officials have more options to try to block the payments….
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