"ABC News first reported on Thursday about the plan for Trump to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns in exchange for the creation of the $1.7 billion fund. ABC added more details Saturday that the alleged deal would include a Truth and Justice Commission that would pay out slush fund money to Americans who were unfairly targeted by the IRS and Justice Department."
"The people convicted of violence against the United States, against police, targeting lawmakers, calls to assassinate officials? Those are the people that, under this reported plan, would get your taxpayer money, Melber said on Saturday's The Beat: Weekend. The deeper question is why Donald Trump, who has no more elections yet to run, is so interested, so fixated, on using or abusing a legal process to fund these people."
"He already freed them from prison, which remains one of his greatest scandals of his term, Melber said. Some of these people were convicted of sedition against the United States. They were supposed to serve for over a decade. Now, they might, under this plan, profit."
"ABC says it could also be routed to anyone else who says the Biden administration weaponized the legal system against them, including people like election deniers Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell. Melber said that the push to go further than pardoning the guilty raises the question of why he doesn't just want these people out free roaming the streets, many of them, of course, former convicts."
A reported plan would have Donald Trump drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns in exchange for creating a $1.7 billion fund. The fund would be administered through a Truth and Justice Commission that pays people described as unfairly targeted by the IRS and Justice Department. The proposal includes payments to individuals convicted of violence against the United States, attacks on police, targeting lawmakers, and calls to assassinate officials. The plan could also extend to election deniers and other figures associated with claims of weaponized legal processes, including Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell. The concern is that the money could incentivize further wrongdoing beyond prior pardons.
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