💬 Opinion 3d ago · Jacob Sullum

The $1.776 Billion in Trump's 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Fits a Pattern of Fanciful Figures

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The $1.776 Billion in Trump's 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Fits a Pattern of Fanciful Figures
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There are several weird aspects to the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" established by President Donald Trump's settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS. Perhaps most puzzling of all, the amount of taxpayer money allocated to the compensation fund, $1.776 billion, is plainly arbitrary, which is consistent with the mysterious math that Trump has deployed in his long history of frivolous litigation.
The lawsuit that provided the pretext for this arrangement, which was provoked by an IRS contractor's ill

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