The 8billion slush fund tRump wants to pay allies (probably to create another insurrection in 2028)… just my opinion.
NYTIMES:
…“The president is suing himself and compensating other people for legal claims that have not been identified from people that we don’t know. We just haven’t seen anything like that.”
“Mr. Figley and Mr. Zimmerman agreed that the $1.8 billion fund was an inappropriate use of the Judgment Fund to circumvent Congress.”
“The power of the purse is one of the key checks and balances that we have,” Mr. Figley said. “The way it is now, the executive branch has a little area where it has its own source of money, and it shouldn’t.”
And there’s more…
Mr. Van Hollen is correct that a pardoned rioter promised restitution. Mr. Van Hollen was referring to the case of Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who was sentenced to life in prison in March for child sex abuse. Contrary to Mr. Blanche’s denials, Mr. Johnson told one of his victims that he would receive $10 million in restitution money from what he cast as persecution from Jan. 6, and promised the victims some of that money, according to a police report filed in July 2025.
It is true that the promise was made before the announcement of Mr. Trump’s fund, but discussion of compensation for Jan. 6 rioters — among the rioters themselves and the Justice Department — long predated the announcement of the fund. Mr. Johnson himself had repeatedly posted about compensation for his arrest and time spent behind bars for participating in the Jan. 6 riot.
On a social media account identified by NPR as belonging to Mr. Johnson, he posted in May 2025 about rumors of an executive order dedicated to “restitution” for Jan. 6, with awards starting at $50,000. Asked about his sources, Mr. Johnson responded that he was in touch people who “sat in meeting with Ed,” presumably referring to Ed Martin, who ran the Justice Department’s weaponization working group and represented Jan. 6 defendants.
In another post a few days later, Mr. Johnson singled out Mr. Martin, asking for an update on the restitution money. “There’s a lot of us that are really in bad positions because of the weaponization of the justice system used against us,” he wrote.
I have ZERO SYMPATHY FOR INSURRECTIONISTS THAT COST TAXPAYERS MILLIONS TO REPAIR DAMAGES TO THE CAPITAL AND OTHER PROPERTIES!!
We can change so much of this taxpayer rip off with our VOTE!
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