{"id":87,"date":"2026-05-19T21:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:07:29","slug":"trumps-anti-weaponization-fund-is-a-handout-to-his-hardcore-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u201cAnti-Weaponization\u201d Fund Is a Handout to His Hardcore Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In yet another<\/span> staggeringly corrupt and unprecedented move, President Donald Trump\u2019s Justice Department on Monday announced a $1.776 billion slush fund, drawn from public coffers, to funnel payouts to Trump loyalists.<\/p>\n

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The fund is part of a deal decided by the Trump administration to drop its weak $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of the president\u2019s tax returns. The entire lawsuit had itself become an egregious example of self-dealing: Trump\u2019s Justice Department suing Trump\u2019s IRS on behalf of Trump.<\/p>\n

Over 90 House Democrats recently signed an amicus brief to the presiding judge asking that she dismiss the suit. A settlement, the Democrats wrote, would create a \u201cspecter of corruption unparalleled in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the judge could respond, however, Trump withdrew the lawsuit and moved to set up something even worse than that specter: a slush fund beholden entirely to Trump, with little in the way of judicial or congressional oversight. \u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Justice Department announcement, the so-called \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund \u2014 to remedy the purported weaponization of the U.S. government \u2014 will be paid out to Trump allies who claim they were targeted by President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. The irony that the fund itself is just one of Trump\u2019s countless weaponizations of the government should be lost on no one.<\/p>\n

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The fund amount \u2014 $1.776 billion \u2014 is, of course, an on-the-nose reference to American independence and tells us everything we need to know about this deal. For most of the country, there is little of substance in this too-cute-by-half dollar amount. Instead, the material benefit will go to the largely to the white ruling classes with some crumbs for Trumpian militia members convicted under Biden.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s reckless and brutal presidency is materially harming the American working classes \u2014 even the white working class. With his popularity at historic lows, Trump can only turn to payouts like this, pardons, and the spectacle of white supremacist violence; these are all he has to offer his allies and dwindling base.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this slush fund does: nod to Trump\u2019s allegiance to his supporters, the vast majority of whom will get little other than the mood elevation that comes with having their resentments recognized \u2014 what W.E.B. DuBois once called the \u201cpsychological wages\u201d of whiteness, a benefit that is only felt by virtue of the greater oppression of others.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s authoritarian capitalism will not, after all, uplift the white working class; there aren\u2019t enough U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement signing bonuses or slush-fund payouts to go around.<\/p>\n

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January 6 Loyalists<\/h2>\n

The slush fund money would come directly from the Treasury Department\u2019s Judgment Fund, which is typically used to pay legally reached settlements and court judgments. But in this case, a commission picked by Trump\u2019s attorney general will apparently hand out payments as it pleases.<\/p>\n

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No specific recipients have been named yet, but beneficiaries could reportedly include Proud Boys and other January 6 Capitol rioters, many of whom have since pardoned by Trump.<\/p>\n

The fact that any payouts will be funded by taxpayer dollars is not mentioned in the Justice Department\u2019s fund announcements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a theft far worse than Watergate,\u201d wrote civil rights attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnik on social media. \u201cThere is no other word for it. They are stealing $1.78 BILLION dollars to pay Trump\u2019s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump regime hopes programs like this \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund can appease just enough of an active base to hold power under minority rule, while enriching all those in Trump\u2019s inner circles who in turn stick by his side regardless of what happens in elections.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told the New Republic that he sees the fund as Trump and his lawyers \u201cfiguring out a way to refund the January 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raskin added that, should the Democrats retake the House and Senate in the midterms, they would shut down the fund and demand transparency about any payments made. According to the Congress member, any payouts to January 6 participants would violate the Fourteenth Amendment by aiding in an insurrection against the U.S. It is, however, no easy task to claw back money once doled out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my personal opinion that this is a criminal act and people should respond accordingly,\u201d noted Reichlin-Melnik.<\/p>\n

The problem is that for Trump\u2019s regime and its loyal Supreme Court, the distinction between presidential criminal corruption and permissible executive action has all but evaporated.<\/p>\n

The challenge, then, is to show that Trump\u2019s meager offerings are not worth accepting.<\/p>\n

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Trump using his \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund to put January 6 rioters on the dole is a whole new kind of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}