Trump May Abandon Government Weaponization Compensation Fund

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President Donald Trump may be planning on dropping plans for his government weaponization fund, according to two unnamed senior administration officials who spoke to Axios.

“It’s dead for now,” one of the sources said.

“This has become a distraction,” a second administration official said. “The president believes government was weaponized against people — it wasn’t just him. But this isn’t the time and vehicle for it.”

The President has yet to officially confirm if the fund is going to be abandoned.

“The plan right now is to halt it. But the president likes the fund, he believes in it. So nothing is final until it’s final,” one of the sources said.

On May 18 the Department of Justice announced the Anti-Weaponization Fund which aims to compensate victims of government weaponization. It is financed to the tune of $1.776 billion by a settlement which resolved President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

“The plaintiffs in the case, President Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization, LLC, filed suit against the Treasury and IRS in Southern District of Florida federal court following the leak of their tax returns. Per the settlement, plaintiffs will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind. They have agreed, in exchange for the creation of this fund, to drop their pending lawsuit with prejudice, and also withdraw two administrative claims including for damages resulting from the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax,” a DOJ press release said Monday.

Axios detailed the legal challenges the fund faced:

The White House’s discussions about dropping the fund came after two federal judges weighed in against the fund on Friday.

  • U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia halted the disbursement of money from it.
  • U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida announced she would launch an inquiry.
  • Williams was the judge in charge of the original lawsuit Trump and the Trump Organization brought against the IRS for the unauthorized disclosure of tax information.

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