‘He’s Just Stealing Your Money’: House Dems Launch Bid to Block $1.7 Billion Trump-MAGA ‘Slush Fund’: “It’s illegal and corrupt as hell,” Congressman Don Beyer said of the president’s self-dealing $1.77 billion IRS settlement. “We’re fighting it in court.”
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* Ninety-three House Democrats on Monday launched a bid to block President Donald Trump’s $1.77 billion taxpayer-funded settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, through which the president could reward supporters, including people convicted of seditious and violent felonies during the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection.
* The Democratic lawmakers joined an amicus brief filed in Trump v. IRS before Judge Kathleen Williams in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Their action followed the Trump administration’s announcement of the creation of a so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of an agreement to drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of the president’s tax returns.
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>Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche described the fund as “a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization” allegedly carried out by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) during the Biden administration “to be heard and seek redress.”
* However, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called the settlement “pure fraud and highway robbery,” noting that Trump oversees the agency that agreed to settle with him.
>“No president can concoct a fake case for $10 billion in damages against the government so he can be plaintiff and defendant and then ‘settle’ his bogus case against himself as a judge,” Raskin said.
It’s become too much. I don’t understand how he’s been allowed to do all these for so long
This should be a country wide protest/strike – 🍊 is literally using tax payer money to pay out his cronies. Corruption in plain sight at the highest level – yet a majority of Americans seem fine with this…
It’s crazy to me that so many blatantly illegal things need to go to court. It should just be an immediate issuance of “stop or go to jail”
Thank you. At least someone’s willing to fight this fascist/criminal.
This is effectively the most corrupt thing he could do (so far), and an absolute disgrace when you can’t get your childcare and health funded.
I see this as being a way to both pay those who have previously supported trump and set up payments for those who will in future do his bidding.
Like if people are worried about ICE, how about non affiliated ‘motivated’ citizens who hang on the whim of trump’s words, and can be effectively bought and then be pardoned afterwards for any crimes committed. Truly scary
Maybe we call this “Stop the Steal”
I have a different solution for the traitors
this is just so exhausting to watch happen in broad daylight. like… we are out here struggling with high prices and trying to survive… and the administration is busy finalizing a 1.77 billion dollar settlement with the irs just to hand out cash to their friends?? it feels like a literal mob operation at this point. “he is just stealing your money” hits the nail right on the head. they aren’t even pretending to care about the law anymore… they are just grabbing whatever cash isn’t bolted down to the floor.
Too late for the mid terms
He has done damage for 100 years to USA
Which court? He has the big one which ultimately see it after he doesn’t get his way in the lower courts
Conservative socialism at work again. Profits from private corporations, handouts for his minions, none of it earned, just stolen from the taxpayers.
He’s stealing our money *and* paying off terrorists. If he gets away with this, the worst is yet to come. More embezzlement, and more terrorists trying to overturn elections.
Fucking cowards “we are gonna fight this in court”
It’s about time they showed some backbone. So that’s the final straw, paying the insurrectionists $1.7B of our own tax money to secure the next insurrection? Is that finally at long last what gets these people to move their asses and put up a fight?
Dude fuck Donald Trump. Fuck MAGA. Fuck Republicans.
All anti-American shit bags.
Also don’t let this distract you from the fact that Donald Trump raped children.
270 republicans in Congress probably see nothing wrong with it. Some of them will probably see a check from it to
This is B S , criminal president running amok , stealing from America 🇺🇸 and Americans.
Right wingers on SCOTUS: What part of, “when the president does it, it’s not illegal (unless they’re a Democrat),” do the rest of you not understand?
The headlines need to put it as 1.776 billion to highlight just how absurd and fucked up it is
I guess if you’re a Republican crime does pay
God, is there no end to these crimes.
The IRS can leak my taxes for $1.7B that’s for sure.
Where’s all the supposed fiscal conservatives at for this bullshit? Whine and cry about social programs but let him get away with this?
I’m starting to think America can’t survive Trump and the somehow still surviving confederacy that is now MAGA
I guess my biggest problem with this is it takes more than one corrupt pedo to make this happen. The entire system has been corrupted. I don’t even know how you fix it at this point. Feels like we need a big reset button.
Remember when Biden lending $10k or something to his brother was “evidence” of the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY?
Oh well. Shouldn’t have put a felon into power. Better luck next country
If a prescient can be sued by the government, then they shouldn’t be able to sue the government.
Especially since they control the branch of government assigned with investigating and settling those claims. And even worse when they wffedtively control all branches of government and can guarantee no successful challenges get raised.
The permanent get out of jail card should be means for blocking it as well.
And also means he cna release all his taxes, right? /s
So maybe everyone constantly lying about “Democrats doing nothing” can take a few hours off? Right?
Why are republicans not pushing back on the open corruption
Somebody in the conservative sub said this isn’t a good look, it reminded me of an episode of 20/20 or dateline where, the oldish man accused of killing his oldish wife for her money and estate, months later starts openly selling $10k’s of her shit, and his buddys interviewing to the program said that he said to him in response “____, what are you doin? This int a good look”.. and this was in Georgia or one of the carolinas, idk
When Americans wonder which Party is fighting for them.
At least they’re fighting it.
This is a $2 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for Trump to dole out money to his cronies. It’s massively corrupt and needs to be stopped immediately.
Can a representative of MAGA tell me why 1.87 billion is for Trump, and his cult, vs you getting universal healthcare ?
I know y’all are here. Don’t be scared
I guess that’s something. But i hope there’s more to the plan than signing on to an amicus asking that the case be dismissed where the plaintiffs have already filed a notice of voluntary dismissal.