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Would it be legal for President Donald Trump to effectively order a major U.S. government agency to hand over huge piles of taxpayer money to a group of his political allies? We may be about to find out.

ABC News reports that Trump is likely to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service as part of a new settlement that amounts to one of his most corrupt schemes yet.

It would create a new $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies supposedly victimized by the Biden administration's "weaponization" of the legal system"potentially including the January 6 insurrectionists.