President Donald Trump defended his $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund on Friday, despite Republican uproar.
“I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK IN of Mar-a-Lago, for an absolute fortune. Instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!”
The Trumps sued the IRS in January after an agency employee leaked their 2019 and 2020 tax returns.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was also Trump’s personal attorney, has proposed that the anti-weaponization fund be paid for by the DOJ’s own judgment fund, which is appropriated by Congress to settle cases.
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