Trump Settles His Own Lawsuit Against the IRS for $1.8 Billion of Your Money |
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Trump Settles His Own Lawsuit Against the IRS for $1.8 Billion of Your Money
The government says the money will go to a fund for those "who suffered weaponization and lawfare," but it's more likely a slush fund for Trump and his cronies.
Joe Lancaster | 5.19.2026 12:15 PM
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This week, President Donald Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the IRS, and in exchange the government would set up a fund for victims of overly aggressive federal law enforcement actions. But the entire affair reeks of corruption, and the money is most likely to become a slush fund for Trump and his cronies.
"The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that as a part of the settlement agreement in President Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, the Attorney General established 'The Anti-Weaponization Fund' to provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare," according to a DOJ press release. It would receive $1.776 billion from the Judgment Fund, an intragovernmental account funded by taxpayer money that pays out claims against the government.
"The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department's intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again," said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. "As part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress."
The case originated in January, when Trump sued the IRS and the Department of the Treasury. In 2020, The New York Times reported on the contents of Trump's tax returns, which the authors said "reveal the hollowness, but also the wizardry, behind the self-made-billionaire image."
According to a 2023 Department of Justice indictment, the Times' source was IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, whom a federal judge later sentenced to five years in prison.
In his lawsuit, Trump sought $10 billion in........