Trump to drop his $1.8B 'slush fund' after outrage over paying his allies: report
Source: The Independent
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 after federal judges began firing back at a so-called settlement that got him off the hook for tax investigations in exchange for funneling millions of taxpayer dollars to his supporters.
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 presidents 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.
Last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. blocked the administration from taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund including transferring money to it, considering any claims, and mailing any checks while a legal challenge plays out.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-drops-slush-fund-weaponization-payments-b2987528.html
greatauntoftriplets
(179,422 posts)cstanleytech
(28,628 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,680 posts)https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-president-who-sued-himself
littlemissmartypants
(34,739 posts)Deuxcents
(27,853 posts)Keep vigilant and dont think this is the end of the slush fund until it IS the end of it. Now, for that four letter word.. NEXT
groundloop
(13,956 posts)And he's not about to stop.
Karasu
(2,139 posts)loves so much.
The grift NEVER ends.
Ponietz
(4,464 posts)Voluntarily abandoning ones own fraud scheme does not absolve one from responsibility.
cstanleytech
(28,628 posts)tikka
(852 posts)I just hope the judge follows up on the fraud investigation
GiqueCee
(4,881 posts)... the judge's family will get doxxed and threatened, because that's Trump's MO. He 's an asshole, but he's possessed of just enough simian cleverness to keep himself one step removed from direct responsibility. That's what Charles Manson thought, too.
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twodogsbarking
(19,484 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,142 posts)eggplant
(4,237 posts)rurallib
(64,864 posts)Something that should never have happened
Wiz Imp
(10,550 posts)which the judge in Florida already picked up on. She required Trump to explain how it wasnt a fraud, which ressulted in him dropping the slush fund altogether - a blatant admission it was a fraud all the time. He'll try other things for sure, but the whole IRS lawsuit was a massive FAIL and he will not get anything out of it.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,759 posts)My understanding is that Trump is only dropping the slush fund. I think the part barring the IRS from investigating him, his family or their businesses is WAY more important to him. I think he's hoping that by just saying "Screw the henchmen", will cool the outrage and that provision will somehow survive.
reACTIONary
(7,330 posts)patphil
(9,254 posts)Not a good idea, especially in an election year; it couldn't be around during the actual campaigns in Sept./Oct., or the Democrats would have the perfect attack ads.
Poor Donnie, and he was so looking forward to skimming a huge pile of cash off the top. I bet if he had succeeded in setting up the fund that most of it would have gone to himself and his family.
Watch for a new, and less conspicuous, massive raid on the Treasury after the election.
Akakoji
(577 posts)Dems have to keep pushing all his bull into the open Now
nakocal
(629 posts)And the dropping of the $100 million owed in back taxes.
WTF kind of reporting is that?
sop
(19,513 posts)never has to pay back taxes, or be audited again. He probably thinks people will forget about that illegal agreement if he gives up the $1.776 billion.
reACTIONary
(7,330 posts)Akakoji
(577 posts)He has been called on his bulkshit so now he must go back to court and explain how his suit that the DOJ agreed to drop was valid in the first place. Then, he should get fined 1 777 million.
Aviation Pro
(15,812 posts)Next up, that IRS immunity that will be laughed out of court.
How's it feel to get fucked, you child raping fuckwad?
Dr. T
(744 posts)They can put that in their pipe and smoke it.
J_William_Ryan
(3,609 posts)Trumps illegal thug fund is completely unwarranted no one was a victim of DOJ prosecution, particularly Trumps J6 domestic terrorists.
hibbing
(10,618 posts)You mean all the convicted criminals that attacked Cogress? Those allies? All the convicted criminals you already pardoned? Those allies? You mean all the Proud Boys your whole administration coddles? You mean those allies?
JohnnyRingo
(21,048 posts)Most certainly WH council can apprise him of how weak his case is, but I don't think he would find an ally on the SC either. It's just too far over the line to sneak it through.
Trump hates "losing" so bad he throws in the towel and blames someone or acts like he wasn't serious.
underpants
(197,384 posts)He thought the $1.776 number was cute.
Different Presidents have had big projects but they were sold as having a benefit for all. This are are purely about him. People dont like that, regardless of what they say, but throwing BILLIONS and MILLIONS around pisses everyone off.
iluvtennis
(21,536 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,513 posts)Figarosmom
(13,858 posts)money to those he needs to use again.