Sen. Chuck Schumer called the plan “one of the most depraved” uses by Trump of the Justice Department.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), fresh off of his loss in the Louisiana Senate Republican primary, is calling out the Trump administration’s creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department, saying it raises the specter of self-dealing. “I don’t actually see any legal precedent for…
As the Department of Justice launches a $1.776 billion fund to pay damages to the president and his allies, Democrats in Congress are launching an investigation into the man overseeing the whole thing: acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.Senators Adam Schiff, Dick Durbin, and Richard Blumenthal want to know whether Blanche, who previously served as…
When President Donald Trump and his allies dropped their $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), there was a condition: the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) would create a $1.7 billion fund to settle claims by people who say they were wrongly targeted for "lawfare" during Joe Biden's presidency.Democrats on Capitol Hill are…
A new addendum to the so-called settlement agreement between Trump and Trump—that is, the Department of Justice and Donald Trump’s personal lawyers—will “forever” prohibit the United States from seeking any claim or initiating any IRS enforcement action or audit against Donald Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and the Trump Organization, based on any…
Trump settled a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the creation of a fund to funnel taxpayer money to victims of 'lawfare', including January 6 rioters.
