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groundloop

(13,956 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:30 PM 3 hrs ago

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 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.

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

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Trump to drop his $1.8B 'slush fund' after outrage over paying his allies: report (Original Post) groundloop 3 hrs ago OP
So he gets to keep the money for himself? greatauntoftriplets 3 hrs ago #1
Not unless the judge signs off on it. cstanleytech 3 hrs ago #5
No, it was going to be from an existing "Judgment fund" muriel_volestrangler 1 hr ago #22
The perpetual shell game. littlemissmartypants 3 hrs ago #2
We should not get too excited because another grift will happen Deuxcents 3 hrs ago #3
Exactly. He's getting bolder and bolder with his grifts.... groundloop 3 hrs ago #8
Yep. Just like the Iran war market manipulation and all the unregulated prediction market and AI bullshit the regime Karasu 2 hrs ago #15
Every Court where some of that bullshit was filed should hold full evidentiary hearings for fraud Ponietz 3 hrs ago #4
Yup and drum roll.....this might not be something he can claim Presidential immunity to escape. cstanleytech 3 hrs ago #6
Yes He was suing as a private citizen tikka 45 min ago #30
But then... GiqueCee 36 min ago #32
This message was self-deleted by its author cstanleytech 2 hrs ago #11
I doubt this is the end. twodogsbarking 3 hrs ago #7
we need to watch carefully to prevent him from transferring money to those J6ers BlueWaveNeverEnd 2 hrs ago #16
will this also kill his IRS get out of jail free card? eggplant 3 hrs ago #9
heckuva good question! rurallib 2 hrs ago #10
Yes. There is no settement because there was never a legitimate case. The whole thing was a fraud on the court Wiz Imp 2 hrs ago #13
Only if the courts stop it ThoughtCriminal 1 hr ago #24
Apparently a separate issue..... reACTIONary 24 min ago #35
This was such a blatant theft that even some of the republicans in Congress were against it. patphil 2 hrs ago #12
It's already taking place Akakoji 1 hr ago #19
Notice nothing said about his supposed tax immunity nakocal 2 hrs ago #14
yes Skittles 1 hr ago #17
That's what Trump really wanted, a 'Get Out Of Jail Free' card from the IRS, so his family's criminal organization sop 44 min ago #31
This was said.... reACTIONary 26 min ago #33
Get them to court! Akakoji 1 hr ago #18
Good, this should piss off the inbred MAGAts who thought they were going to get fat stacks Aviation Pro 1 hr ago #20
MAGAts got owned by the judge. Dr. T 50 min ago #27
Democrats would be correct to not trust or believe someone as dishonest and corrupt as Trump. J_William_Ryan 1 hr ago #21
"Allies" hibbing 1 hr ago #23
Maybe he called John Roberts. JohnnyRingo 57 min ago #25
This blew up massively in his Stoopid face underpants 25 min ago #34
More appropriate headline title:"Trump to drop his $1.8B slush fund to pay those who stormed the capitol on Jan 6th" n/t iluvtennis 51 min ago #26
To pay domestic terrorists. Dave Bowman 49 min ago #28
That just means he'll find another way to channel Figarosmom 48 min ago #29

muriel_volestrangler

(106,680 posts)
22. No, it was going to be from an existing "Judgment fund"
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 05:47 PM
1 hr ago
Earlier this week, the Justice Department announced that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had established a $1.776 billion dollar fund, ostensibly as part of a settlement agreement in Trump v. IRS. The fund—drawn entirely from the federal Judgment Fund, a permanent congressional appropriation used to pay court settlements against the United States—will be used to dispense taxpayer money to people who suffered from purported Democratic “weaponization” and “lawfare.” While Trump is not expected to receive compensation from the fund himself, money will be doled out by a five-member board he effectively controls, operating under procedures that need not be disclosed, with the identities of recipients potentially kept secret.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-president-who-sued-himself

Deuxcents

(27,853 posts)
3. We should not get too excited because another grift will happen
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:38 PM
3 hrs ago

Keep vigilant and don’t think this is the end of the slush fund until it IS the end of it. Now, for that four letter word.. NEXT

Karasu

(2,139 posts)
15. Yep. Just like the Iran war market manipulation and all the unregulated prediction market and AI bullshit the regime
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:58 PM
2 hrs ago

loves so much.

The grift NEVER ends.

Ponietz

(4,464 posts)
4. Every Court where some of that bullshit was filed should hold full evidentiary hearings for fraud
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:50 PM
3 hrs ago

Voluntarily abandoning one’s own fraud scheme does not absolve one from responsibility.

cstanleytech

(28,628 posts)
6. Yup and drum roll.....this might not be something he can claim Presidential immunity to escape.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 03:54 PM
3 hrs ago

tikka

(852 posts)
30. Yes He was suing as a private citizen
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:21 PM
45 min ago

I just hope the judge follows up on the fraud investigation

GiqueCee

(4,881 posts)
32. But then...
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:29 PM
36 min ago

... 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.

Response to Ponietz (Reply #4)

Wiz Imp

(10,550 posts)
13. Yes. There is no settement because there was never a legitimate case. The whole thing was a fraud on the court
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:52 PM
2 hrs ago

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)
24. Only if the courts stop it
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 05:59 PM
1 hr ago

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)
35. Apparently a separate issue.....
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:42 PM
24 min ago
Another federal judge is also investigating the so-called “settlement” agreement between the president and the IRS after Trump sued his own administration for $10 billion. The judge will determine whether Trump filed a “frivolous lawsuit for the sole purpose of forcing a settlement” to create a fund for his political allies while the president, his family and their businesses escape government scrutiny for tax debts over which they have been under investigation for more than a decade.

patphil

(9,254 posts)
12. This was such a blatant theft that even some of the republicans in Congress were against it.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:49 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

nakocal

(629 posts)
14. Notice nothing said about his supposed tax immunity
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:56 PM
2 hrs ago

And the dropping of the $100 million owed in back taxes.

sop

(19,513 posts)
31. That's what Trump really wanted, a 'Get Out Of Jail Free' card from the IRS, so his family's criminal organization
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:22 PM
44 min ago

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)
33. This was said....
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:40 PM
26 min ago
Another federal judge is also investigating the so-called “settlement” agreement between the president and the IRS after Trump sued his own administration for $10 billion. The judge will determine whether Trump filed a “frivolous lawsuit for the sole purpose of forcing a settlement” to create a fund for his political allies while the president, his family and their businesses escape government scrutiny for tax debts over which they have been under investigation for more than a decade.

Akakoji

(577 posts)
18. Get them to court!
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 05:19 PM
1 hr ago

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)
20. Good, this should piss off the inbred MAGAts who thought they were going to get fat stacks
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 05:29 PM
1 hr ago

Next up, that IRS immunity that will be laughed out of court.

How's it feel to get fucked, you child raping fuckwad?

J_William_Ryan

(3,609 posts)
21. Democrats would be correct to not trust or believe someone as dishonest and corrupt as Trump.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 05:30 PM
1 hr ago

Trump’s illegal thug fund is completely unwarranted – no one was a ‘victim’ of DOJ prosecution, particularly Trump’s J6 domestic terrorists.

hibbing

(10,618 posts)
23. "Allies"
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 05:47 PM
1 hr ago

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)
25. Maybe he called John Roberts.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:08 PM
57 min ago

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)
34. This blew up massively in his Stoopid face
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:41 PM
25 min ago

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 don’t like that, regardless of what they say, but throwing BILLIONS and MILLIONS around pisses everyone off.

iluvtennis

(21,536 posts)
26. More appropriate headline title:"Trump to drop his $1.8B slush fund to pay those who stormed the capitol on Jan 6th" n/t
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:15 PM
51 min ago
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