"Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump aims to fund his own private militia with a $1.8 billion fund for his allies. This new fund, announced by the Justice Department on Monday, is designed to compensate people who claim to have been targeted by former President Joe Bidens Justice Department and Democrats as victims of weaponization and lawfare. Democrats have slammed the move as a taxpayer-backed slush fund clearly created for a target audience: Trump's allies."
"Raskin called Trump's entire administration corruption, highway robbery every day, slamming The Board of Peace for which Trump is chairman for life with unchecked financial control. He also blasted the new Anti-Weaponization Fund as an outrageous expropriation of the tax dollars of the people for political purposes to give to Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, rioters and insurrectionists, the people who beat up police officers before adding, It's about funding or pre-funding Donald Trump's private militia."
"Raskin said, Is there anything else like this in U.S. history? Nothing like it, he said. It's thoroughly illegal and unconstitutional. Of course, Congress never voted to set up a $1.776 billion political slush fund for the president, and we never would pass such a thing. So it's a complete violation of Congressional appropriations powers. Moreover, even if Congress wanted to do such a thing, which we never would, it would be unconstitutional, because the 14th Amendment says that money cannot be spent out of the federal fisc for the purposes of repaying people for insurrection or rebellion against the United States."
"The Anti-Weaponization Fund is part of a settlement Trump and the Justice Department reached, with Trump agreeing to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for his leaked tax returns. The money for Trump's new fund is set to come from a special, unlimited account available to the Justice Department for settling lawsuits, and the department wil"
A $1.8 billion Justice Department fund, called the Anti-Weaponization Fund, is intended to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the prior Justice Department and Democrats through weaponization and lawfare. Democrats criticize the fund as taxpayer-backed money directed to Trump’s allies rather than a lawful public purpose. The fund is described as part of a settlement in which Trump agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns. Rep. Jamie Raskin says Congress did not authorize such a political slush fund and argues it violates congressional appropriations powers. He also cites the 14th Amendment, saying federal money cannot be spent to repay people for insurrection or rebellion. He characterizes the administration as corrupt and the fund as political expropriation of tax dollars.
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