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Slush Fund, We Hardly Knew Ye

I have bad news for the Acting Attorney General: This shitshow is not going away any time soon.

David Post | 6.3.2026 4:32 PM

Blanche: "We are not moving forward with the Fund. Period"

Rep. Meng: "Not moving forward ever?"

Blanche:  "Correct."

So there you go.

That's good news, of course; the Fund was an outrage, the Settlement Agreement setting it up was laughably incoherent and never should have seen the light of day, and the lawyers responsible for the entire exercise should be ashamed of themselves and should probably be hit with Rule 11 sanctions.

It's not the last we'll hear of this matter. District Judge Williams, you will recall, has re-opened the Trump v. IRS case (the one the parties ostensibly "settled") in order to investigate "grievous allegations that........

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