A $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is described as performative and lacking legal justification. Taxpayer money is characterized as being diverted into a slush fund to compensate Trump followers, including January 6 rioters, under oversight by Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal lawyer. The administration’s legal rationale is presented as a settlement of a lawsuit Trump brought against the IRS that he controls, with Trump as both the suing party and the president ordering the government to surrender funds. The DOJ is said to refuse to rule out payments to a convicted child molester who promised victims “Trump bucks” to keep quiet. Two law enforcement officers sue to stop the fund, alleging brazen presidential corruption and challenging the settlement plan’s structure and administration.
"There are a lot of problems with Trump's new $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," from the purely performative total, completely unmoored from any legal justification, to the fact that the DOJ refuses to rule out writing checks to a convicted child molester who promised his victims "Trump bucks" to keep quiet, the foundational problem is that it exists at all. The fund pilfers taxpayer dollars into a slush fund to compensate Trump's followers - including and especially January 6 rioters - overseen by Trump's personal lawyer Todd Blanche."
"The administration's dubious legal justification to commandeer these funds for rioting child molesters is to settle a lawsuit Donald Trump brought against the IRS that he controls. Trump the individual sued. Trump the president ordered the government to surrender. Trump the individual then seized the funds for his own purposes. Infinite money glitch! "I am supposed to work out a settlement with myself," Trump told reporters at the time, proving he's capable of remarkable candor when describing corruption."
"That's not how administrative law is supposed to work. And now two law enforcement officers who tried to push back the rioters have sued to put a stop to it. Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and current Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges - the latter best known to the public as the cop caught in the Capitol doorway as rioters tried to crush him - filed suit Wednesday challenging the slush fund."
"The complaint, brought by the Public Integrity Project's Brendan Ballou and Samuel Ward-Packard, opens with by noting: "In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name." The settlement plan Trump worked out with himself places $1.776 billion in taxpayer money into a fund administered by a five-membe"
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