The Department of Justice is launching an unprecedented effort to reward those friends and supporters of President Donald Trump who were prosecuted or investigated for crimes under previous Democratic administrations by doling out as much as $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds in a new “anti-weaponization fund” administered by the Justice Department.
The new initiative was announced by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was Trump’s personal defense counsel in the multiple criminal cases that were brought against the then-former president for allegedly unlawfully retaining classified documents after the end of his first term and attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election results to avoid leaving office after losing that election to Joe Biden.
Blanche said the new compensation fund is being established to settle a $10 billion lawsuit which Trump, his children and his eponymous real estate and hotel company had filed against the IRS after a contractor for the agency leaked his tax returns to the New York Times during his first term.
“The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” said Blanche, who added that the fund would establish a “lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.”
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