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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Monday announced the creation a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they were mistreated by the Biden administration Justice Department.

The "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was announced by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Any future administration should jail anyone that takes this money. This is mostly a pedophile bailout and should be treated as such.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago

those trump allies are the jan 6 traitors, he is becoming increasingly desperate of the epstein files, so he needs to cause chaos by okaying his people to cause violence.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

The conflict of interest here is absolutely insane. That's a conspiracy to defraud the government.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Why do they even fucking sugarcoat?! Just say you're taking our fucking money.!..

[–] echo@lemmy.today 44 points 1 day ago

Fucking crooks

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago

Administration of thieves

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

yo this is corrupt as fuck but like imma need a check for like $382,654,700.65 right away please and thank you

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 36 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

What I'm hearing the trump administration say is: "Pay us for being caught breaking tax law"

Ladies and gentleman, the GOP: The party of personal accountability and financial responsibility. /s

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

You forgot one: Party of law and order!

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Good luck with that! If the universe were paying any attention, Trump would have been reduced to ashes by multiple lightning strikes, well before 2016.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

One can certainly hope

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Unless he's serving a purpose to punish us, and show us the logical extremes of a declining hateful and money-worshipping imperialistic culture.

A LOT of us understand the lesson and would like to be excused from the ride now, PLEASE.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It is always a con, a grift, a scam, fraud, or blatant corruption. That's not even touching on all thw other shit like the rapes and fucking his own daughter.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Gonna need a citation on the fucking his own daughter claim. Only thing I remember is his creepy comment about how beautiful she is and how he would have sex with her, not that he has/did.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I absolutely am going to be needing citation for a claim so absurd. As if a child rapist that openly said he would fuck his daughter would actually fuck his daughter chuckles nervously

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He's already done enough documented horrible shit. There's no need to add perceived or assumed horrible shit on top. It hurts credibility if it turns out to be false.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Who's credibility is being hurt if it turns out to be untrue? And why are you so concerned about the credibility of OP?

And all that assuming, of course, that anything would come out, when the only people that know for sure would be himself and his daughter, that also depends financially on him.

But I am sure that it did also hurt Trump's credibility when he lied with about every second word (this is a hyperbole, an exaggeration to paint him as lying a lot, which has been proven again and again). It just got him elected to the white house the second time.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The credibility of any articles about what Trump has actually done.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So you're saying that you would stop believing in articles about what trump did, that include proof, if something that he might have done (and sounds likely) turns out to not have happened?

Or are you worried that Trump supporters would stop believing? Are they believing now?

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I wouldn't, though I'm not sure what proof you're talking about in this specific instance, but I'm not the one that needs convincing. It's like the boy who cried wolf. If someone reads articles, or only hears from friend or peers, about a person who all turn out to be untrue, why would they believe an article that actually is true?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

A lot of this is speculation based on that disgusting comment AND an interview with her where she toured her old home and showed her childhood bedroom.

When she got there she just went quiet for a moment with a disassociating thousand-yard stare.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago

part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

Yup. The sitting president was suing an agency of his own executive branch, folks. A lawsuit he filed -- checks notes -- four months ago. They're barely even trying at this point.

Wow, super stoked that my fucking taxpayer dollars are just getting handed to orangeboi regime cronies as a direct result of them vexatiously litigating their way out of a fucking crime

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Good thing you can still look up all the convicted j6ers. Take them out of the equation before they can file for compensation

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Fucking bullshit