LGM can’t sue itself for billions of dollars and then agree to settle with itself for fewer billions of dollars (now with added context)
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If the blog had that much power it wouldn’t need to do this annual fundraiser. Plus, it turns out that the self-sue/settlement agreement = PROFIT! plan is harder to pull off than it looks.
The Trump administration plans to drop the Department of Justice’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” in the face of legal and political pushback to it, reports said Monday.
The fund was created as part of a settlement of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. It is intended to compensate people who were purportedly victims of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ under the Biden administration.
By some coincidence the only “victims” who could satisfy the DOJ’s requirements would have had the last name Trump, but I do hope a lot of assholes who don’t have the last name Trump took out big loans based on their belief that they were going to get some of that cash.
But neither can Lawyers, Guns & Money award billion dollar contracts to itself and the leaders of corporations and countries aren’t queuing up with expensive gifts, hence the annual fundraiser. If you’ve already given, thanks so much. If you’re on the fence, get down and donate. If you can’t because you don’t have the extra funds, tell someone about the blog.
Update: MSNOW provided some context on the serving of taco for this particular get richer quicker scheme.
A few days after the Trump administration unveiled its $1.776 billion compensation fund, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill to brief Senate Republicans on the details and answer their questions. He likely expected some modest pushback, since a handful of GOP senators had already gone on record announcing their opposition to what they described as a “slush fund.”
But Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer probably wasn’t prepared for the ferocity of the response from those in attendance. In fact, we don’t even have to speculate based on leaks from unnamed officials: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said on his podcast that his Senate colleagues “screamed” at Blanche as part of “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”
“Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz added. “My guess is there [were] probably 45 senators in the room; at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”
Note, he was referring to an exclusively Republican audience — Democrats were not invited to this briefing, and none were in attendance — suggesting that “at least half” of the Senate GOP conference wanted Trump’s sycophantic acting attorney general to know, with varying degrees of intensity, that they were not on board with this idea, especially in an election year in which the party is already facing headwinds.
