Legal Experts Sound Alarm on Trump's Weaponization Fund

Thursday, May 21, 2026

After Donald Trump sued his own administration for $10 billion, pitting his personal lawyers against the Department of Justice, the president was gifted a broad, single-page document that gives him sweeping immunity from tax crimes.

Under the guise of a "settlement" between his lawyers and his administration, the president and his allies will both receive government handouts potentially worth tens of millions of dollars. Alleged "victims" of government "weaponization" can file for a piece of a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund, while the president, his family and their businesses escape government scrutiny for tax debts over which they have been under investigation for more than a decade.

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Legal experts tell The Independent that the agreement is a blatant and illegal act of self-dealing by the administration.

"There is a federal crime that prohibits exactly what the president did, and for exactly this reason, to prevent a corrupt president from using the IRS to their own advantage," according to UC Berkeley Law professor Brian Galle, a former federal prosecutor with the Justice Department's Tax Division.

What's the response from idiot Trumpers?

Harris would have been worse
-pedoringer

But Biden!
-BillTinyJohson

J6 was just an overzealous tour group!
-lfhndcuck

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-21 11:41 AM | Reply

An audit centered on a nearly $73 million tax refund Trump claimed around 2010, which the former real estate developer and reality TV host justified by reporting steep business losses, largely tied to his casino holdings and his Chicago skyscraper.

The IRS contended that Trump improperly claimed the same losses twice for the Chicago tower, where he reported losses of up to $651 million.

So, Trumper idiots, is he a giant fraud and conman or just a really s*&^ty bithnithman?

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-21 12:00 PM | Reply