{"id":644711,"date":"2026-08-01T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644711"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:45:00","slug":"trump-defends-anti-weaponization-fund-but-admits-its-effectively-dead-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644711","title":{"rendered":"Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It’s Effectively ‘Dead’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It’s Effectively ‘Dead’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump on Friday said that he still wants compensation for people he said were victimized by a weaponized federal government while acknowledging that a planned $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund is \u201cdead\u201d after the Department of Justice walked it back amid congressional opposition and court rulings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is dead,\u201d <\/strong>Trump said at a Cabinet meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I wish it weren\u2019t, to be honest with you. I think people were horribly treated, horribly abused \u2026 and I\u2019d like to see them compensated for their pain.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cTheir families have been ruined. Many, many suicides\u2014they\u2019ve committed suicide,\u201d <\/strong>he also said in the meeting, which was held at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople that were very successful, that wanted to go to a rally or an event and ended up spending the rest of their lives in horror.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this fund, this fund was not for me,\u201d<\/strong> he said. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis fund was for those people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced the fund as part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit where Trump had sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide money for individuals who claimed to have been targeted by \u201cweaponization and lawfare\u201d under the previous administration. Trump\u2019s lawsuit with the IRS was over a leak of his tax returns.<\/p>\n

The fund, however, was met with legal setbacks as a federal judge blocked it from going into effect. That block was extended in mid-June.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plaintiffs who sued to block the payouts argue that the government can\u2019t legally divert taxpayer money into what they alleged was a slush fund for compensating Trump\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n

Also in June, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a bipartisan backlash, and government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now moot.<\/p>\n

During a House hearing on June 2, Blanche said, \u201cWe are not moving forward with the fund, period.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNot moving forward ever?\u201d <\/strong><\/em>asked Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.).<\/p>\n

\u201cCorrect,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Blanche answered.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that the fund was meant to defend \u201cthe great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs and whose lives were unfairly and illegally destroyed\u201d by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The president added that regarding the alleged victims, \u201cperhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are suffering still, many ruined, and I felt that they should be given compensation for what has been done to them,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>he said, adding that Blanche should also be approved as attorney general by the Republican-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s meeting is the first televised Cabinet session ever conducted at Camp David. The Trump administration previously attempted to hold the meeting in May, but it was scrapped due to bad weather.<\/p>\n

During his first term in office, Trump held a Cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat that was closed to the press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/31\/2026 – 21:45<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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