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We are hearing some crazy assed shit as part of a President’s agreement with HIS Justice Dept.
President Donald Trump and the Justice Department have reached a settlement of a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns, ending a case that both perplexed and outraged critics as the president sought to sue the government he runs.
Under the deal announced Monday, the Justice Department is setting up a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay claims to people acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called “victims of lawfare and weaponization.”
Blanche did not elaborate on who will be eligible for the compensation, but some people who were convicted of crimes in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot have already sued the government. The fund, to be overseen by a five-person commission, will process claims through mid-December 2028 — about a month before Trump’s term is set to end.
“The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” Blanche said in a statement.
Under the settlement, Trump also agreed to drop damages claims he filed against the federal government over investigations into his 2016 presidential campaign’s ties to Russia and the court-approved FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022 as part of a probe into the handling of classified documents, a DOJ statement said.
Trump and his family members “will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind,” the statement said.
The statement was silent about whether the IRS had agreed to waive any past or future claims or to end past or future audits of tax returns filed by Trump, his family or his companies. The department acknowledged that language it released Monday detailing the anti-weaponization fund was only “part of the settlement agreement” resolving Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.
“President Trump, his family, supporters, and countless other America First Patriots were illegally targeted by the Democrat-lead [sic] law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Justice, and the IRS,” a spokesperson for Trump’s legal team said in a statement….
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“No president can concoct a fake case for $10 billion in damages against the government so he can be plaintiff and defendant and then ‘settle’ his bogus case against himself as a judge,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the House Judiciary Committee’s ranking member.
Democratic lawmakers Monday were quick to blast the dismissal of Trump’s case against the IRS and details of the settlement agreement.
“Regardless of whether Trump filed this lawsuit with a personal payday or a slush fund in mind, he deserves no credit for dropping it, and even by his standards the move he’s trying to get away with now is a stunning act of corruption,” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement. He added that Trump is seeking a “slush fund for right-wing political violence and subversion, and if he follows through, it will be the most brazen theft and abuse of taxpayer dollars by any president in American history.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), another member of the Finance panel, wrote on X that the compensation fund is “corruption on steroids.”….
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New York Times: “The Trump administration announced on Monday the establishment of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department, creating a potential pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters.”
“The highly unusual plan — slammed by critics as a political slush fund — came after President Trump withdrew his lawsuit demanding at least $10 billion against the Internal Revenue Service, an apparent effort to skirt oversight by the judge in the case as he moves toward arranging a fund to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters.”
GOPer’s defeat an effort to bar Trump and Blanche from using government money to ‘pay’ those who did illegal acts on Jan. 6
Republican senators on Tuesday tabled an amendment introduced by Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) that would bar the Trump administration from creating its $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday established the fund as part of a settlement after President Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for $10 billion in January. Under the new policy, which Democratic lawmakers have slammed, individuals who believe that the federal government has wronged them can seek payouts and “formal apologies.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the Senate Budget Committee advised him that Gallego’s amendment “does not comply with the rules.” Republicans on the panel then tabled the amendment via a 8-7 partisan vote.
“I offer this amendment for one simple reason: taxpayer dollars should never be used to enrich a sitting president, his family or his political allies,” Gallego said during a Tuesday hearing.
“The president of the United States sued his own government and then negotiated an arrangement with his own Department of Justice to create a nearly $2 billion fund to compensate himself, his family and his allies,” the Arizona Democrat added…..
The Hill