The Daily Beast
Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS President Donald Trump has attempted to justify a new $1.7 billion “slush fund” for taxpayers to reimburse Jan. 6 rioters. On Monday, Trump’s Justice Department announced the establishment of the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate MAGA allies he believed were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration. In exchange for the fund, where taxpayers foot the bill, Trump dropped his unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in connection to, among other grievances, the 2022 raid of his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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