💬 Opinion 2d ago · Billy Binion

Trump's 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Is Built on a Contradiction

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Trump's 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Is Built on a Contradiction
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The Trump administration's announcement that it had established a large, taxpayer-financed "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was an odd addition to an already-odd news cycle. The pool of $1,776,000,000—1776, get it?—was born out of a settlement between President Donald Trump and the IRS; the chief executive had, in some sense, sued himself after a contractor leaked his tax returns to The New York Times in 2019. Those funds will be used, the Justice Department said, "to hear and redress claims of others

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