Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is Plunder and Blasphemy
It's not a 1.8 billion dollar slush fund for traitors. It's a *1,776* billion dollar slush fund for traitors.
The outcome I’ve been railing against for weeks has come to pass—and it’s even worse than I thought. This is not mere plunder. It’s also blasphemy.
The preposterous $10 billion lawsuit Donald Trump and his failsons filed against the IRS has been settled. Acting Attorney General and Ghislaine Maxwell canoodler Todd Blanche took pen to paper and signed one of the most un-American documents this nation has ever produced.
I addressed this lawsuit in my morning ramble a month ago:
Here’s what I said:
And why am I enraged? Because the US taxpayer, i.e. me, i.e. you (if you’re watching this in the United States)—we’re going to cut Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, we’re going to cut them a big fat check. Now, it’s not going to be for $10 billion, which is what they’re asking for. It’ll probably be for tens of millions. It could even be hundreds of millions. That’s where we’re at.
Why would we be doing this? Why would the U.S. taxpayer just flat-out be coughing up that much money to these criminals? Well, in January of this year, 2026, Donald filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. So let me read it. This is Trump versus IRS. And the summary is written by Claire Pollard over at the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse:
On January 29, 2026, Plaintiffs, President Donald Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Treasury. Plaintiffs sought at least $10 billion in damages as recompense after Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, illegally accessed and disclosed their confidential tax returns and related information between May 2019 and September 2020. Plaintiffs claim that Defendants had a duty to safeguard and protect Plaintiffs’ confidential tax returns and related tax return information from such unauthorized inspection and public disclosure. See 26 U.S.C. § 6103, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. They seek punitive damages, attorney’s fees, and costs.
This case is ongoing.
So the template for this has already been established. Mike Flynn—who Mueller indicted, and who pled guilty, and who Trump pardoned before he could be sentenced—Mike Flynn sued the Department of Justice and was just paid $1.25 million for his troubles. Carter Page, whose name we haven’t heard in a while—he was a big character around the dossier, from 2016. Carter Page, just this week, was also paid $1.25 million, you know, just to help make him feel better.
It’s not enough in the Trump administration that we just hand out pardons to crooks. We also now have to pay them. You know, it’s like a business expense. Here you go, Mike Flynn. Here’s 1.25 mill. Don’t spend it all in one place.
So that’s the template. And it’s the template that Trump himself is trying to exploit with this ridiculous lawsuit. Now, Trump’s suing the IRS for not properly safeguarding information and data. It reminds me a little bit of Howard Lutnick suing American Airlines right after 9/11 for not being able to stop the hijackers. It’s just a dick move in general. It’s especially a dick move when you’re the president of the United States.
Even in my heated rage, I did not believe the “settlement” would be in the 10 figures. Nor did I foresee the fiendish means of resolution.
It’s worth breaking down the DOJ announcement line by line:
The U.S. Department of Justice [on May 18, 2026] 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.
In the Orwellian cant of the Trump regime, “Anti-Weaponization” means “Weaponization.”
The plaintiffs in the case, President Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization, LLC, filed suit against the Treasury and IRS in Southern District of Florida federal court following the leak of their tax returns. Per the settlement, plaintiffs will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind. They have agreed, in exchange for the creation of this fund, to drop their pending lawsuit with prejudice, and also withdraw two administrative claims including for damages resulting from the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax.
Here, the American people are implicitly instructed to get on our knees and humbly beg forgiveness for hurting Donald’s fee-fees. We’re also supposed to be moved by the munificence of Trump and his venal sons, who have so gallantly refused monetary damages that surely were owed to them. You will hear MAGA unironically extolling the Trump family’s generosity.
Oh, and the DOJ here sneakily decrees that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago that seized the classified documents Trump stole and the many, many, many times the Trump campaign liaised with the Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign were, respectively, “unlawful” and a “hoax.”
“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 use of government power to target individuals or entities for improper and unlawful political, personal, or ideological reasons should not be tolerated by any Administration,” said Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter.
The mendacious Todd Blanche opining that the “machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American” sounds to me like a veiled threat by Trump’s former (current?) defense attorney to weaponize the machinery of government against any American the President doesn’t like.
As for “Trent McCotter,” I’m pretty sure that’s an AI-generated name and that he doesn’t exist.1
The Fund will have the power to issue formal apologies and monetary relief owed to claimants. Submission of a claim is voluntary. There are no partisan requirements to file a claim. Any money left when the Fund ceases operations will revert to the Federal Government.
No partisan claims, eh? So Jim Comey and Tish James can submit claims? How about all the legal residents ICE carted off to parts unknown? Or the media outlets and independent journalists, like Jim Stewartson, that the buffoonish Kash Patel is currently suing?
The Fund will receive $1.776 billion and will come from the judgment fund, which is a perpetual appropriation allowing DOJ to settle and pay cases. On a quarterly basis, the Fund shall send a report to the Attorney General outlining who has received relief and what form of relief was awarded.
This is the part the news coverage, as usual, got wrong—as a gander at the headlines shows:
It’s not a 1.8 billion dollar slush fund for traitors. It’s a 1,776 billion dollar slush fund for traitors. The number is meaningful. And its use in this context is nothing short of blasphemy.
Honestly, I would have preferred if they used their favorite number, the one with the Nazi connotations that all the alt-right weirdos snicker at. At least $1,488 billion would have been more honest about who these hateful people are—and saved the American taxpayer $300 million.
At the Attorney General’s direction, the Fund can be audited. The Fund must take steps to protect private information and avoid fraud. The Fund shall cease processing claims no later than December 1, 2028.
Translation: The fund will never be audited. And the money will be long gone by the time a new president is elected.
There is legal precedent for such a Fund, most notably the “Keepseagle” case where the Obama Administration created a $760 million fund to redress various claims alleging racism against the federal government over a period of decades.
One has to marvel at the elite level of trolling here. This sentence 1) argues for the legality of this blatant plunder by 2) blaming Obama—and it also 3) equates the well-documented and ugly history of institutionalized racism by the federal government with some J6 asshole getting pinched for beating up a cop.
But it doesn’t stop there:
In Keepseagle, hundreds of millions of dollars remaining in the fund were distributed to non-profits and NGOs that never made claims, whereas any money remaining in The Anti-Weaponization Fund will revert to the federal government. The Obama DOJ settled by putting $680 million from the judgment fund into a bank account for a single claims administrator to dole out. In Keepseagle the remaining money—which ended up being over $300 million—was distributed to the entities that had not even submitted claims.
That’s the Trump DOJ implying that the Obama people did a bad job administering the Keepseagle funds. It also suggests that, by the grace of Donald Trump’s big heart, any money stolen from us that he hasn’t been able to dole out to his minions before the presidential election will be returned. This is like my kid handing me back the change for the $20 I gave him to spend on lunch. What a guy!
And just in case you think there’s some small chance Jim Comey or Tish James could claim some of this dough:
The Fund will consist of five members appointed by the Attorney General. One Member will be chosen in consultation with congressional leadership. The President can remove any member, but a replacement must be chosen the same way as the replaced member was selected.
The five Members will be Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Lara Trump.
Not really—I made that up. The actual Members will be Sean Hannity, Maye Musk, Herschel Walker, Jack Posobiec, and that rapper with the MAGA tattoo on his face.
Not really—I made that up. The actual Members will be AI bots programmed to think like Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Albert Fall, Boss Tweed, and Meyer Lansky.
Not really—I made that up. The actual Members will be. . .
Okay, I’ll stop now. The point is, if we know anything about the Trump regime, we can safely predict that the Fund Members will wind up being, somehow, even worse.
There’s more fun stuff in the actual document—is this an executive order? a directive? a list for Santa?—Todd Blanche signed yesterday. Like this:
Within 60 days of the Effective Date, the United States shall provide the U.S. Department of the Treasury with all necessary forms and documentation to direct a payment of $1,776,000,000 to an account for the sole use by the Anti-Weaponization Fund (“Designated Account”). The corpus of the Anti-Weaponization Fund's funding does not represent the value of any claim by Plaintiffs, but rather is based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims.
Blanche thinks we’re stupid enough to believe that “projected valuation of future claimants’ claims” is how they came up with the number $1,776 billion, and not, you know, the significance of that number in the history of the United States of America—which, incidentally, turns 250 in July.
And this:
The funds deposited into the Designated Account may be used to pay for per diems, administrative services, funds, facilities, staff, travel, ammunition, tickets to George Strait concerts, Kash Patel-branded whiskey, Pearl Harbor snorkeling adventures, alimony, bar tabs, strip club bills, refurbishment of planes gifted by Qatar, penile implant surgeries, “massages,” and other support services as may be necessary to carry out the mission of the Anti-Weaponization Fund. The Members of the Anti-Weaponization Fund shall serve as volunteers and gratuitous service providers, without any further compensation for their work on the Fund. They are allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, to the extent permitted by law.
Okay, I may have added some things to the list. Also: the Fund Members will “take no salary” in the same way that Donald Trump “takes no salary,” wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
I mean. . .
It’s like. . .
I can’t even.
Even for these brazen criminals, this is egregious.
Since Trump and Blanche and this “Trent McCotter” replicant seem so enamored of the number 1776, perhaps they should take a gander at the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, which patiently explained to the mad king—who surely also didn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation”—that “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness,” and that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
We were at that point 250 years ago. And now?
Seems to me that the best way to celebrate the semiquincentennial is by declaring our independence from a cruel, greedy, stupid, feckless, brain-addled tyrant.
Photo credit: The Declaration of Independence, drafted and signed July 4, 1776. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Blackwell/Released)
This is a joke. I think.
It's not a settlement. For it to be a settlement, there has to have been a court-certified case. The judge had not yet determined if there was a case, given plaintiff and defendant were on the same team. The date for that determination was May 20, so there isn't and has never been a case, just allegations and a demand for money - $10 billion.
Also, I wonder whose scheme this was. Trump in his addlepated dementia might have demanded vengeance, but he isn't competent enough to have finessed all the details on his own. Hannity? Roger Stone? Carte Blanche?
Who gets the $1.7 billion of tax payer dollars that Trump is stealing from the U.S. Treasury? Check these maps for people involved in the Jan 6th insurrection!
https://thedemlabs.org/blog/?search=Jan%206