Dear Struggling, Law-Abiding American Taxpayers:
President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The commission overseeing the compensation fund would have the total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration's "weaponization" of the legal system, including the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as well as potentially entities associated with President Trump himself.
While the settlement is expected to be agreed upon in the coming days, sources caution that the final terms will not be set until they are officially announced.
In addition to a public apology from the IRS, the compensation fund is believed to be the main condition for Trump to drop a series of legal actions he filed against the federal government, including the $10 billion lawsuit related to the 2019 leak of his tax returns as well as $230 million in legal claims related to the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and the Russia collusion investigation he faced during his first term in office, sources familiar with the ongoing deliberations said. The settlement terms are expected to prohibit Trump from directly receiving payments related to those three legal claims; however, entities associated with Trump are not explicitly barred from filing additional claims, sources said. [snip]
The proposed fund -- which could face significant legal hurdles -- would draw money from the Treasury Department's Judgment Fund, a permanent appropriation used by the federal government to pay court judgments and settlements, sources said.
The arrangement would be an unprecedented use of taxpayer dollars with little oversight. Under the terms of the potential settlement agreement, President Trump would have the authority to remove members of the commission running the fund without cause, and the commission would be under no obligation to disclose its procedures or decision-making process for awarding more than a billion dollars, the sources said.
The proposed creation of the compensation fund has led some administration officials to raise ethical concerns about the arrangement -- stemming not only from Trump suing his own government but also having control of an entity that can freely hand out $1.7 billion to his allies. When asked about his legal claims last year, Trump acknowledged the lawsuit "sort of looks bad," but claimed he would donate any money he receives from the claims to charity. [snip]
While the exact terms of the settlement are still being finalized, sources have described the proposed compensation fund as a hybrid between a victim compensation fund -- similar to the civil claims process that followed the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill -- and a truth-and-reconciliation-style commission. Examples of truth and reconciliation commissions in other countries include governmental acknowledgment of wrongdoing related to apartheid in South Africa and Canada's Indian residential school system.
Over the last year, the Justice Department has utilized a so-called "Weaponization Working Group" to examine what it has described as abuses of power by the Biden administration, identifying cases of alleged anti-conservative and anti-Christian bias -- claims that are disputed by former officials.
Trump's proposed commission is expected to be composed of five members who would issue monetary awards based on a majority vote, and the process for awarding money and the identities of the recipient could be kept private, according to sources.
Any remaining funds would be turned back over to the government shortly before Trump leaves office, sources said. (our emphasis)
A Justice Department that's been turned into the Malignant Fascist's personal law firm is about to agree to this "unprecedented use of taxpayer dollars with little oversight" to reward the insurrectionists, extremists, scoundrels, sycophants, and other bottom-feeding remnants of the MF's cult who broke the law and trashed the Constitution. We remain skeptical that the "significant legal hurdles" faced by the arrangement will be enough to keep the MF and his lackeys at DOJ from pulling this off. The "ballroom Republicans" in Congress certainly won't stand in the way. The self-dealing corruption of the MF becomes more normalized by our institutions every day.
(Image: the MF with potential beneficiaries of his slush fund)
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