Two retired and active police officers sued Donald Trump in US district court in Washington DC over plans to create a $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund. The officers, Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, allege the fund is essentially a slush fund that would compensate allies of the president who claim prosecutorial overreach. The fund is described as part of an agreement in which Trump and his sons dropped a $10 billion long-shot lawsuit against the US Internal Revenue Service. The lawsuit names Todd Blanche and Scott Bessent as defendants. The complaint characterizes the fund as taxpayer-funded support for insurrectionists and paramilitary groups committing violence in the president’s name.
"Two police officers who clashed with rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have sued Donald Trump over plans to create a $1.776bn anti-weaponization fund. The fund, which critics have argued is essentially a slush fund, is set to compensate allies of the US president who he claims were victims of prosecutorial overreach."
"It was created as part of an agreement in which Trump and his sons dropped a $10bn long-shot lawsuit against the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Harry Dunn, a retired US Capitol police officer, and Daniel Hodges, a Metropolitan police department officer, filed a complaint in US district court in Washington DC on Tuesday."
"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 lawsuit says. Todd Blanche, acting attorney general, and Scott Bessent, treasury secretary, are also named as defendants."
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