Trump to drop his $1.8B 'slush fund' after outrage over paying his allies: report
By: Yahoo News
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President Donald Trump will reportedly abandon plans for a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund designed to pay his allies and alleged "victims" of government "weaponization."
A pending decision, according to Axios and Punchbowl, follows a federal court ruling that temporarily blocks the administration from funding or making any payments from what critics have called a "slush fund" to enrich the president's aggrieved supporters.
The scheme has also come under heavy fire from members of Congress, where lawmakers abruptly abandoned a series of votes before Memorial Day after hitting an impasse over plans to funnel taxpayer dollars into the fund.
This is a developing story.
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Trump's attempt to extort the U.S. government failed and his Thug Fund is dead. It looks like Trump's cop beaters won't get paid. No word yet on the Thug-in-Chief's tax evasion immunity.
trump and his DOJ rent-boy todd are trying to get off the judicial hook before their hearing about attempting to defraud the court ...
trump spent this last weekend trying to polish this grift turd and revive it ...
He didn't do this because he wanted to, or it was just 'unpopular' it was blatantly illegal. A judge was trying to get the original filing reopened and multiple groups were suing the settlement.
Good! Now throw away the pardons and send them all back to prison!
The stupidest ones are already back from committing new crimes.
... primarily for sex crimes and/or as child predators. maga!
And kill the IRS immunity deal.
I'm pretty sure that will follow soon. Since there was no formal settlement there can be no immunity.
I wonder how many of them went out and spent money they didnt have because Trump promised it to them.
... one of the child sex victims told LE that she had been promised money by the J6 perp for her silence. maga!
Raise your hand if you think this will be the end of it and he won't try to get his "slush fund" a different way.....
Now raise your hand if you think he is already planning a different way to get it...
The Democrats in the Senate are introducing legislation to permanently ban Trump's Thug Fund. That doesn't mean Trump won't try to find another way to steal our money.
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This one was a real stretch... what's he going to try next? "I told Scott just to write me a big beautiful billion dollar check from the US Treasury."
Republicans are giving him money for his ballroom, reflecting pool, UFC fight, and for gold leafing a bunch of statues around DC. What's another billion stuffed somewhere else?
It could happen
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Wait. So it IS up to him? Hasn’t he been telling the press that he had nothing to do with the settlement agreement?
By next week he will claim he never heard of it and doesn't know anything about it.
... then he'll throw todd blanche under the bus.
Because by then his dementia will be significantly worse. Of course, he won't remember any of this
I don’t think dementia has anything to do with Trump’s lifetime history of selective memory. Dementia might be a positive for Trump. Can you imagine if he forgot how to lie? That would be game over for this pig.
he already can't remember the lie he started a sentence with by the time he contradicts himself as he finishes it.
But that’s ok because he is smarter than all of us so his lies will never be detected … or so he thinks.
his lies are rarely detected by most knuckle dragging maga morons, his supporters ...
Trump has always loved being the smartest person in the room and he accomplishes this by entering the room alone and then only inviting those dumber than he is to join him. He knows whether they're stupid or not by seeing if they'll grovel before him for a tiny handful of nuts. It really is embarrassing to see just how many pitifully stupid people there are in our country. I'd blame our education system but a large portion of Trumps base likely never even finished high school. I think the religious conservatives stuffing bullshit and lies into their children's heads contradicting what they're supposed to be learning in school has a larger part to do with the dumbing down of America than just underfunded public schools. Without these poorly educated bigots, Trump would not have been able to rape America the way he is now. These poorly educated religious bigots were literally asking for it.
Not sure this is not a win for Donald. He can say he tried and it was the mean ole courts that would not let him do it. Another promise kept. That may be enough for many of his followers.
Trump tried to steal almost $1.8 billion to pay off supporters.
His attempt was thwarted.
Yet you think that getting caught and stopped might be a win for him because 'he tried'.
So I suppose you think it was a win for Trump to fail to steal the 2020 election. Or fail to outlaw Jus Soli. Or fail to stop the Ukraine war. Or fail to lower prices. ... on and on ... because he tried.
That may be enough for many of his followers. Notice how I said "may be". I don't know what his followers think but they do believe alot of what he says and may believe this also.
Might want to ease up on supposing what I think. You have yet to be correct.
That crowd is generally not a fan of these:
I am well aware of your use of weasel words.
Does not change the fact that instead of criticizing Trump for trying to steal almost $1.8 billion in taxpayer revenue to use to pay off supporters, you try to find some illogical spin that presents this failure to steal as a positive.
Stop pretending you are not in that group. Your words of consistent support over many seeds in many months make plain that you are.
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Not so sure that is the case
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Our nation is currently being run by a confusion of weasels.
Typical MAGA response. You deflect by pretending you are being attacked. If you had something thoughtful to say, you’d say it. Instead, every comment only confirms what I wrote.
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Do you condemn Trump for trying to steal almost $1.8 billion in taxpayer revenue to use to pay off supporters?
Do you condemn Trump for starting an illegal war with no clear strategy, no clear endgame, and damaging the national and world economies, only to wind up in a situation where Iran is controlling the Strait of Hormuz?
Do you condemn Trump for unilaterally demolishing the East wing and now force taxpayers to spend billions to build a suitable infrastructure for anything that would wind up replacing it?
Do you condemn Trump for abusing the DoJ to go after political enemies?
Do you condemn Trump for unnecessarily causing prices to rise via tariffs and Iran rather than fall?
On and on ... you post comments that attempt to spin away the outrageous wrongdoings of Trump. What drives you to try to defend this corrupt, incompetent, vindictive psychopath?
that was beautiful!
Queue RDtC response: nobody but DJT can tell you why he does what he does, so until you can read his mind it is entirely plausible that he has good intentions.
Seriously, the extremes these guys will go to to defend Trump while pretending they are just being independent thinkers is nauseating.
they're covering the political retreat of their master back to his rally point, only to find out that they've been left behind ...
How can anyone possibly believe feeble, obvious attempts to defend Trump accomplish anything other than illustrate, yet again, that there is no defense for most of what Trump has done wrong?
narcissists are mentally unable to admit their own errors ...
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because they think we are dumb. We know who the dummies are here
You consider my questions @9.1.11 to be nonsense?
And there you have it, another example of a feeble attempt to defend Trump. In this case, labeling questions about serious wrongdoings and failures by Trump as 'nonsense'.
Clearly, you cannot defend Trump's wrongdoings. Why do you try? Why do you even want to defend this vindictive, dangerous, incompetent psychopath?
Asking you to opine on serious questions about Trump is not making it about you. Buy a vowel.
Your refusal to opine shows that you know there is no defense for Trump ... yet you still try to defend him. Why? To what end?
Support for Trump is irrational, irresponsible, and unpatriotic.
And per Trump, you just proved that you are intelligent.
You know that dumb is spelled with a 'b'. Most people, per Trump, do not know that.
I wonder when he learned that dumb ends in a 'b'?
This man is an idiot:
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I'm pretty sure it's their ideological opposition to those their religion has deemed "sinners" coupled with their desire to create a white conservative Christian 'Promised Land' here in America where they are eternally in charge, their religion might as well be codified in the constitution and their level of privilege and superiority isn't even questioned and thought of as 'deserved' by minorities, which has always been the dream of many white conservative Christians.
because he lives to troll
probably the same day this video came out
I knew dumb ended with a B when I was in first grade. One of the first words I wanted to learn how to spell
We know who the dummies are
I would bet money that Trump would spell that with a b.
A perfect illustration of an absurd level of downplaying by you of the failures and wrongdoing of this administration.
You will not even condemn Trump's attempt to steal almost $1.8 billion in taxpayer revenue to pay off supporters.
So who do you think will read your comments and think that the $1.8 billion slush fund is good because you think the question is nonsense?
One of the first elementary school insults I can remember was "There's no 'i' in dumb, but there is a 'U'!".
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not here ...
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Do you condemn Trump for trying to steal almost $1.8 billion in taxpayer revenue to use to pay off supporters?
Do you condemn Trump for starting an illegal war with no clear strategy, no clear endgame, and damaging the national and world economies, only to wind up in a situation where Iran is controlling the Strait of Hormuz?
Do you condemn Trump for unilaterally demolishing the East wing and now force taxpayers to spend billions to build a suitable infrastructure for anything that would wind up replacing it?
Do you condemn Trump for abusing the DoJ to go after political enemies?
Do you condemn Trump for unnecessarily causing prices to rise via tariffs and Iran rather than fall?
On and on ... you post comments that attempt to spin away the outrageous wrongdoings of Trump. What drives you to try to defend this corrupt, incompetent, vindictive psychopath?
Prove he "stole $1.8 billion.
If you think everything going on with Iran is new you really haven't been paying attention to the last almost 50 years.
No different than tearing up parts to build a basketball court.
As much as you condemn Democrats. (You silence has been noted over the years.)
As the left put it....The President doesn't control prices.
oh look, another maga-vet that can't seem to answer direct questions, or comprehend political and constitutional realities ...
Of course, the cliche response: "Prove it".
And this is how it goes. First of all, Trump's deal with the DoJ is widely known. So you pretending Trump did not try to steal these funds is pointless dishonesty.
Second, no matter how much additional information I or anyone else posts, you will claim it is not proof.
So play your pathetic little game on a site where gullible people might buy your bullshit.
You claim that putting in a basketball court is as destructive as destroying the East Wing. How, exactly, do you think this will influence anyone with a brain?
The PotUS does not control prices but he sure as hell can take actions that will cause prices to rise.
You denying that tariffs and the illegal Iran war have not caused prices to rise is despicable.
This strawman is either deliberate dishonesty for the purpose of trolling, or you’re so urgently focused on the tribal nature of politics that it’s just lazy. Read the line YOU quoted. It says Trump was “trying to steal” - not that he had actually done it. This is the kind of thing that will get you accused of trolling. Most people here just want an honest discussion of the issues, but then you pull something like this, which makes it impossible.
No different than tearing up parts to build a basketball court.
Obama built a basketball court using hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars? What a moronic comparison.
the maga debate team isn't very ... deep.
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I think it's just difficult to have an honest discussion with someone who wants the starting premise to be "Donald Trump is a normal, average IQ, average temperament, average educated normal everyday President" before getting into a debate over some specific policy issue.
The starting point for conservatives is soooooo far from reality that rational patriotic Americans can't even fathom starting there. It's like going into a debate club competition and being told "Okay, so debate team 1 will take the position that a fence around a private pool is required to avoid potential harm to children due to the attractive nuisance doctrine, and debate team 2 will take the opposite position. Oh, and for the sake of argument, we'll assume that children don't exist."
What is the point of even having that argument? It's certainly not an "honest discussion".
So, if any Trump fans are willing to start the conversation acknowledging that yes, Trump is a convicted felon and he is an accused pedophile and was accused by over two dozen women of sexual assault and was found liable in court for one of them, cheated on all three of his wives, paid multiple porn stars a quarter million to keep quiet about his affairs during a campaign, tried to extort the leader of Ukraine for dirt on Biden, inspired an attempted insurrection on his behalf and then pardoned the violent felons who beat officers, again, on his behalf, enacted what the court has found were illegal and unconstitutional tariffs, I mean the list just goes on and on and on. To try and boil it down to just "I hate Trump" is being intentionally obtuse and therefore nowhere close to 'honest'.
So, what would be the point of having a faux "honest discussion" with an intentionally obtuse person?
While sad, that's the reality.
An honest discussion requires that both sides be honest and deal with reality.
If one holds that Trump is fit to be PotUS —given all he has done and continues to do— then that is holding an irrational and demonstrably wrong position. And yes, I am quite aware that this is my opinion, so spare us all the cliché platitude.
Seriously, what does it take for some to recognize that Trump is well beyond unfit to be PotUS given even a subset of this list below? The first bullet alone illustrates his unfitness. When in history have we tolerated such incompetence and corruption?
Trump:
Trump does not view the presidency as a solemn duty but rather as a license to do whatever pleases him personally.
How does this level of abuse of the powers and influence of his office for personal gain NOT cross well past the line of fitness to serve as PotUS?
What do you think he tore up? Where did you hear that?
Here is a picture of that court:
As you should be able to clearly see, the tennis court is still there. All he did was have some some extra lines painted on the court for basketball, and brought in some portable hoops. And, by the way, he paid for this with his own money.
This is something you could have discovered on your own just by Googling the matter instead of blindly accepting some horror story that FoxNews told you.
You get that from your AI/ChatGPT sources? As usual, they are wrong
Google AI sources
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You assume that my list came from AI. Wrong, this is a list I have been accumulating. Next you claim that my list is wrong yet provide no facts and not even a rebuttal.
Instead you list some accomplishments of Trump.
So you totally fail to rebut my claims and then pretend that listing some accomplishments somehow overrides the reasons why Trump is unfit.
If that is all you can offer, why even bother to post?
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[ ✘ ] Nah - only gave you 25 accomplishments WITH the links. Those links are easy to follow - just click on them.
No claims were made other than claims by you.
365 WINS IN 365 DAYS: President Trump’s Return Marks New Era of Success, Prosperity
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From negative net migration for the first time in 50 years to the largest homicide drop on record, trillions in reshored investments, peace deals ending multiple wars, record energy production, and massive bureaucracy cuts, President Trump has put America First with urgency — and he’s just getting started.
Then, if you've got the time, there is a list of 365 things accomplished by Trump.
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Well, he filed a suit against the IRS for $10B - the suit was dropped and DOJ converted the funding into a $1.775B Anti-weaponization Fund as a fund that was designed to financially compensate Trump allies, conservative figures, and January 6 rioters who claimed they were targets of political "lawfare" or unfair investigations by previous administrations.
Only Raskins keeps saying Trump was trying to steal it.
Man, have they got you and the rest of the magas fooled! Just amazing.
Trump is the most corrupt US president in history. Just say you dont care and we can move on.
trying to steal almost $1.8 billion in taxpayer revenue
No validity other than Jamie Raskins and the U. S. House Judiciary Committee Democrats to that statement. Instead of pursuing personal damages in court, Trump's legal team settled with his own administration's Department of Justice (DOJ). In exchange for dropping the suit, the DOJ agreed to use the federal Judgment Fund to establish a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund".
DOJ rolls out nearly $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ as part of Trump’s IRS settlement
Yes. There are two possibilities for how that happens, and both require Trump.
The first would be a settlement. That is an agreement between plaintiff (Trump) and defendant (The United States government) to drop the suit forever so long as certain conditions are met - namely, the creation of this fund.
The second possibility is that the President (Trump) simply ordered his Attorney General to create the fund.
There is no scenario where the DOJ just creates the fund on its own initiative. Even if they did do that all on their own (which would be illegal) there is nothing stopping Trump from proceeding with his lawsuit against the government. Why would the government - or any plaintiff in any case - just cough up money with no agreement not to sue in the future? The answer is that they would not. Lawsuits just don’t work that way.
no shortage of scum in trump's pond for those suckers that still support him ...
Oh come on, 1st, you seriously are going to put this in a post??
This fund is entirely illegal. It came from the DoJ under Trump's control negotiating a 'deal' with Trump. Good grief man.
Trump was trying to get $1.776 billion of our tax dollars under his control to basically bribe supporters. He had no legal right to that money and that, 1st, is theft.
What drives you to try to defend this thief??
Sickening!
POS/POTUS and the acting AG colluding to defraud the court, realizing what they did, and then trying to make believe it didn't happen, only to abandon the idea today ...
Yeah. Kinda like bank robbers deciding not to commit a robbery when they realize everyone just watched them enter the bank with their guns.
"Ah, Mr. Fox, I see you're here to represent Mr. Fox?"
"Yes Mr. Fox, I'm here to represent Mr. Fox to settle the matter over how many chickens Mr. Fox is owed."
"Of course, Mr. Fox, we're happy to coordinate the transfer of chickens to Mr. Fox, how many chickens would that be?"
"Oh, I don't know, how about nearly two billion, does that sound fair Mr. Fox?"
"More than fair, Mr. Fox, I'll get on it right away."
"Thank you, Mr. Fox. And now that I'm thinking about it, Mr. Fox is already pretty full. How about we give those chickens to Mr. Fox's crew who helped him pull that one job a while back? I mean, even though they weren't successful, some of them went to jail for Mr. Fox, so I'm sure keeping a chicken in each loyal foxes pot will make Mr. Fox very happy."
"You got it Mr. Fox."
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And the expected response. And without the proof of course.
Yeah, that's not proof he tried to steal anything. That's your OPINION.
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Do you mean 9.1.37 ?
And what a well thought out intellectual insult that lets everyone see the level of emotional maturity reached. Thank you for making sure anyone reading along could see which side of the argument was coming from an elementary school playground.
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You're the one who said it was 3.1.37 which is all I was clarifying.
I find it very humorous that some wrongly believe others aren't 'keeping up' but are just oblivious to the fact that they'd been lapped several times already.
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I did, and you do not present facts. You say many times to "prove it" as if that's some sort of defense for what is fucking obvious to everyone else. Basically, your defense is that it wasn't "stolen" because TRUMPS DOJ™ "settled" with TRUMPS attorneys™ in a case NO ONE ELSE got to hear or see on a wildly outrageous $10 billion claim. How FUCKING GULLIBLE do you have to be to believe ANY of that was legit and wasn't outright THEFT!?!
I guess that was the smartest thing he ever did.
Instead of posting entirely unsupported, vague, generic insults, why not make an actual point with a supporting argument?
Show that you have a legitimate point to make.
It was illegal (Appropriations Clause, 31 U.S.C. § 1304, 28 U.S.C. § 2414, and 31 U.S.C. § 1341) for Trump, controlling the DoJ, to make a deal with the DoJ that transfers $1.776 billion of taxpayer revenue to his control for paying political supporters. It was illegal (26 U.S.C. § 7217) for Trump to make a deal with the IRS to hold him, his sons, and his businesses immune from IRS audits.
And beyond being illegal, these acts are extremely unethical.
If any other PotUS made these 'deals' you would be up in arms. Why, in this case, are you trying to defend Trump? How is that rational?
Well, unless that PotUS was another rightwing conservative Republican or their kin...
Maybe. There does seem to be some cultish tie with Trump that goes way beyond blind partisanship.
And exactly was said that TiG responded to that started this whole thing? When you can answer that we can talk.
It was illegal (Appropriations Clause, 31 U.S.C. § 1304, 28 U.S.C. § 2414, and 31 U.S.C. § 1341) for Trump, controlling the DoJ, to make a deal with the DoJ that transfers $1.776 billion of taxpayer revenue to his control for paying political supporters. It was illegal (26 U.S.C. § 7217) for Trump to make a deal with the IRS to hold him, his sons, and his businesses immune from IRS audits.
And beyond being illegal, these acts are extremely unethical.
What kind of irrational thinking would lead anyone to approve of these acts?
Nope. That is not what the post you replied to said. Try again.
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[✘] DOJ reports to the AG - not Trump. Sorry - thought you knew all of those hierarchies.
There were five attorneys involved - and not one of them was named Trump. I'm sure you'll come up with the party affiliations of each to "support" your claims of Trump telling them what to do.
The DOJ and their attorneys settled the Trump claim to the IRS - not Trump.
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maga republicans are the welcome exception to not mocking and humiliating the mentally challenged in america ...
The DoJ reports to the AG who reports to Trump.
Do you actually think that you can persuade people that the DoJ reports to the AG and that is the end of it? That Trump is not calling the shots? That the AG is not doing the bidding of Trump?
I would seek to disabuse you of that entirely naive expectation.
I believe that metaphorical train left the station years ago ...
Blanche is an even more efficient brown noser than his predecessor.
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I think it's become abundantly clear that the Trump defenders have become desperate as their defenses of his actions get weaker and weaker to the point that now they just demand everyone suspended their disbelief when listening to their full-throated defenses of their dear Leader. They're like someone who doesn't speak a foreign language that just starts speaking louder because they think they're not being understood, when the reality is everyone else already knows exactly what they're saying, they're just mocking them for being so stunningly gullible.
I was unaware that there was a CoC policy against harassing moronic arguments and wildly inaccurate statements. If there is, then I sincerely apologize for shredding the clearly stupid conservative narrative that somehow Trump loyalists in the DOJ should be trusted to be absolutely non-partisan in their decision to just hand Trump $1.8 billion in taxpayers' money without even bothering to go to court, the two sides (which are on the same side) "talked it out" and just agreed to pay Trump nearly $2 billion. And the excuse they used for their gullible followers to explain why they would pay out on a completely spurious lawsuit that anyone with more than half a brain knows Trump would have lost? "Well, he sued for $10 billion so settling for $1.8 billion was a good deal!". Doh! There I go again exposing and harassing conservative arguments, my bad.
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I wouldn't expect much independent thought from those that have been told what to do and think for most of their life.
Please continue because it's obvious to me somebody is making up rules that don't exist in the COC
"Well, he sued for $10 billion so settling for $1.8 billion was a good deal!"
Hey, using Trump math that is a 600% savings!
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Well, most of his followers ARE pretty stupid, so some may buy that line of bullshit.
window licking stupid ...
lead paint chip eating stupid
...that is only surpassed by their stubborn refusal to accept reality.
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Agreed, so perhaps rightwing conservatives should stop slandering patriotic Americans.
Luke 4:23
glock 18: 9mm
absolutely because they aren't the patriotic Americans they think they are
esp veterans who support this inept, incompetent, criminal, narcissistic POS.
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glock 19 is more than enough for my needs. And it is legal
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Trump still loves his Thug Fund... although he doesn't know anything about it:
J6 traitor bonus ...
... fuck him. unamerican maga scum deserve the abuse ...
And what has he been doing for the last decade? He's certainly not "loving" the American people
he's loving their money that he's grifted. his true believer well has run dry, so he and his family have moved on to the US treasury.
He must have a chubby for Collins.
And she smiles for Colbert:
Bet that Frosts his cookies
he left his cookies in melania's purse, and she's in NYC, with her big-dicked secret service team ...
Well...not only is Colbert funny but he's cute, too
He makes me smile
Didn't you hear, Trump had all of her secret service agent's genitals replaced with something that would remind her more of him...