Todd Blanche issues formal order terminating measure widely derided as a ‘slush fund’, in move that could clear path for his nomination as attorney general
Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order late on Sunday terminating Donald Trump’s $1.8bn “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.
While Blanche has repeatedly said publicly that the fund was dead, the justice department had resisted formally confirming that in writing. That had drawn concern from lawmakers that it could be revived in some form, especially after Trump expressed continued support for the idea.
A spokesperson for Texas Senator John Cornyn, one of the senators holding up Blanche’s nomination, confirmed the agreement. The other GOP senator, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, did not have immediate comment.
No he didn’t. If you read the fine print, all parties must be signatories to all changes to the settlement meaning if Trump and his kids decide to force the settlement it can go forward. He’s lying as well. Read this document Blanch signed. He didn’t close the door on the fund.
Trump’s not giving up on this. This is the money that he intends to pay his violent Insurrectionists to fight for him when we try to make him leave in 2029. He can’t pay them out of his own money because “MY money, are you fucking kidding me?” plus hiring a private army to launch a coup is pretty much a guarantee of getting executed when it fails,.which it will, because MAGA is virtuosically incompetent, and failure is guaranteed.
I hope he does it. It will give us the final excuse to deal with him decisively and when those Insurrectionists get froggy again, they’ll be met with a wall of automatic gunfire, like they should have the first time. They won’t get a second chance. We can wipe out the worst MAGAs in America in a few minutes, then execute their God.