Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the creation of the fund as part of the settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns.
The Trump administration is creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people it says were wronged by the federal government, a group that could be largely made up of the president’s allies.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday accused President Trump of seeking to fund a “private militia” with the newly announced “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate the president’s allies who say they were wrongly targeted or investigated by the Biden administration. Raskin told MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow that “nothing like this” has been done in U.S. history,…
The president’s allies and supporters stand to receive payouts based on claims they were mistreated by the government.
President Donald Trump has dropped his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday after agreeing to a settlement that requires the Department of Justice to create a fund for government lawfare victims.Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization sued the IRS in January for $10 billion after a former IRS contractor admitted to leaking…
The Justice Department has established a more than $1.7 billion fund for victims of weaponization under Joe Biden, which President Trump said will reimburse those who faced Biden-era political persecution. Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that the $1.776 billion weaponization fund, which was created as he dropped a $10 billion lawsuit…
The creation of the fund, which could be used to compensate Trump allies investigated under Biden, is part of deal to resolve the President's lawsuit against the IRS.
Recasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority.
