âOutright theftâ: legal experts decry $1.8bn Trump anti-weaponization fund
Key points
- A legal and political firestorm is growing over the $1.776bn âanti-weaponizationâ fund Donald Trumpâs justice department has launched to pay alleged victims of âlawfareâ, but that e DoJ officials and legal experts call âcorruptâ and a âslush fundâ for Maga allies that benefits the president.
- Congressional critics from both parties and legal scholars have attacked the fund as an opaque scheme that will improperly help January 6 insurrectionists, some of whom said they intend to apply for grants, while echoing Trumpâs false claims that Joe Bidenâs administration was âweaponizedâ against them.
- Moreover, since the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, unveiled the fund on 18 May to settle a $10bn lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS over a leak of his tax returns in 2019, critics have blasted a fund âaddendumâ that blocks IRS action on any pending tax probes of Trump, his sons and their businesses.
- Legal challenges to the...
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A legal and political firestorm is growing over the $1.776bn âanti-weaponizationâ fund Donald Trumpâs justice department has launched to pay alleged victims of âlawfareâ, but
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Key Takeaways
- A legal and political firestorm is growing over the $1.776bn âanti-weaponizationâ fund Donald Trumpâs justice department has launched to pay alleged victims of âlawfareâ, but that e DoJ officials and legal experts call âcorruptâ and a âslush fundâ for Maga allies that benefits the president.
- Congressional critics from both parties and legal scholars have attacked the fund as an opaque scheme that will improperly help January 6 insurrectionists, some of whom said they intend to apply for grants, while echoing Trumpâs false claims that Joe Bidenâs administration was âweaponizedâ against them.
- Moreover, since the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, unveiled the fund on 18 May to settle a $10bn lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS over a leak of his tax returns in 2019, critics have blasted a fund âaddendumâ that blocks IRS action on any pending tax probes of Trump, his sons and their businesses.
- Legal challenges to the fund and its addendum have been growing.
- A bipartisan group of 35 e federal judges on 27 May filed a motion appealing to a federal judge in Miami who oversaw Trumpâs lawsuit against the IRS to reopen the case, and launch an inquiry to determine if Trump and DoJâs unorthodox deal to settle the lawsuit involved fraud.
đ Source: The Guardian
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