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Posted on 05/18/2026 10:04:44 AM PDT by dennisw
'The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department's intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,' said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
'As part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.'
Donald Trump has reached a $1.8 billion deal with the IRS to dispense taxpayer funds to victims of 'lawfare' as part of a settlement in his case against the government.
The President, his sons Don Jr and Eric, and the Trump Organization filed suit against the Treasury and IRS in the Southern District of Florida federal court after the leak of their tax returns.
They agreed to drop their suit, as well as two claims, including for damages resulting from the raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022 and the Russian election interference probe.
While Trump is barred from directly receiving payments from the fund, entities associated with him are not explicitly prohibited from filing additional ones.
The settlement sparked outrage from Democrats, including Ron Wyden
'Even by his standards, the move he's trying to get away with now is a stunning act of corruption,' said Wyden.
'What Trump wants is a $1.7billion slush fund for right-wing political violence and subversion, and if he follows through, it will be the most brazen theft and abuse of taxpayer dollars by any president in American history.'
The $1.776 billion fund will have the power to issue formal apologies and monetary relief owed to claimants, including Trump's political allies and the 1,600 January 6 defendants. The fund will consist of a commission of five members appointed by the Attorney General, with Trump given the power to remove any member.
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Corruption?
Give some to J6’ers and watch heads explode!
A stunning act of corruption!!
“While Trump is barred from directly receiving payments from the fund…”
stunning
now lets go through the laundry list of leftists who were compensated by the “government” for frivolous suits...
Sorry- but i firmly believe two wrongs make a right and people need to get a taste of their own medicine...
DON’T BLAME me for the title. Eric and Don Jr get compensated, they had Federale investigations targeting them for *whatever* the Dems lawfare artists concocted. The Jan 6th victims get some compensation. Many got a full prosecution, some got less.
They committed crimes instead of doing their jobs and the taxpayer gets screwed.
The democRATs do this all the time.
“Sorry- but i firmly believe two wrongs make a right and people need to get a taste of their own medicine...”
In this case yes. People are getting made whole for scurrilous corrupt-o-Crat lawfare.
The only “fury” that should be involved here is fury at the fact that someone was able to access personal tax information and spread it far and wide over the internet.
Political enemies attack by the Biden DOJ which Trump was #1.
Hopefully ‘dollar tree obama’ will blow a gasket.
How is being compensated for being affected by someone else’s illegal activities corruption? The democrats should go scream to the sky.
The corrupt see corruption everywhere, in acts of accountability, in acts of directed compensation for malfeasance by a government agency, in justice delivered. They just don’t see any corruption they or their cohort are involved in.
I don’t necessarily agree with this fund, but at the same time, the ‘corruption’ would have been the events that led up to this fund being established (lawfare, abuse of power to target political opponents by the prior administrations, etc.), not the establishment of the fund itself.
A tortured, twisted lie of an article.
If nothing else I want to see the J6 people who were definitely screwed over be generously compensated for the hell they were put through.
I’d say Todd Blanche has passed the audition.
The Daily Mail needs to deal with issues in the UK.
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