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President Donald Trump<\/span> against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 billion fund to pay claims made by his friends for purported unfair prosecution.<\/p>

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\u201cThe machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department\u2019s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,\u201d Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in his department\u2019s Monday press release, announcing \u201cThe Anti-Weaponization Fund.\u201d \u201cAs part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fund will consist of a Commission of five members appointed by the Attorney General. One Member will be chosen in consultation with congressional leadership,\u201d the Justice Department\u2019s press release states. \u201cThe President can remove any member, but a replacement must be chosen the same way as the replaced member was selected.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Justice Department, \u201con a quarterly basis, the Fund shall send a report to the Attorney General outlining who has received relief and what form of relief was awarded.\u201d If Blanche\u2019s previous decisions to protect Trump and go after his alleged enemies are anything to go by, there will therefore be little to no oversight beyond Trump loyalists.<\/p>\n

The president has long claimed that he and his allies have been targeted by the Biden administration\u2014including, as Mother Jones<\/em>\u2019 Michael Mechanic pointed out on Saturday, defendants who were charged for involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection. <\/p>

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Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization filed the $10 billion lawsuit this past January after IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn leaked the president\u2019s tax returns to ProPublica and the New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Monday amicus brief shared with MS NOW, House Democrats said Trump\u2019s lawsuit \u201cundermine[d] the Constitution\u201d and the potential \u201cTruth and Justice Commission\u201d was a \u201cslush fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNever in the history of the United States has a sitting President sought a monetary settlement from the government he leads\u2014let alone sought many billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,\u201d the Democrats wrote, arguing that Trump was \u201cfiling a collusive lawsuit only to immediately dismiss it in order to produce a collusive settlement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And this is a pattern. Just think about the ABC lawsuit, where the process of the Trump administration\u2019s pressure and subsequent settlement resulted in a form of extortion. As for the IRS settlement, the president now has a $1.8 billion compensation fund to support future attacks against anyone who opposes him. <\/p>

Read more \u201cRush Hour 4\u201d and More Katie Miller: Welcome to the Mediautocracy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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