“Dead…For Now” - Trump ABANDONS $1B Weaponization Fund Plan

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Trump abandons the $1.8 billion slush fund in humiliating U-Turn as his own party turns against them, of course, that's Daily Mail. I'll read this to you. Donald Trump abandons the $1.8 billion.
The fund was created as part of a settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak in the 2019 tax return to the media. Lawmakers from both parties have criticized the president and labeled its slush fund, it's now being killed after Speaker of the House Mike Johnson raised objections to the White House fund during a private meeting with the president on Monday afternoon. It's dead for now. One senior administration told Axios Republicans have opposed the fund over fears it would provide monetary compensation to J6 Capital writers who assaulted police. John Thune is holding hostage a bill Trump wanted to fund immigration enforcement. The GOP leader said he would not advance the legislation until Republicans received assurance the fund would not be used to pay the president's allies. Tom.

**Pat** (1:00)
So two things going on in this thing. First of all, there are people that didn't like it because they don't like who's getting paid. Because if the J6 people, Pat, let's say some person, J6 is given $200,000 to help cancel out all those legal bills that they had, that they were illicitly, you know, illegitimately prosecuted. Okay, fine.
But what's deeper in there is the enemies of this bill. And I think John Thune is one of them, which is why he's holding hostage immigration bill. They didn't like the fact that they claim inside this bill is also a Trump amnesty clause on taxes and tax related matters. So as it goes in Washington, if you don't have a single purpose bill, you never know exactly what everybody's upset with. Remember where we covered the Biden inflation bill? And we peeled that back and we proved there was money going to Ukraine and other things. We're like, wait a minute, the Inflation Reduction Act domestic, more than half of the dollars in it were going internationally, specifically to the Ukraine war. Stop. And there's an example of the other side. People didn't like that Biden bill because they said, no, no, no, there's a bunch of bad stuff in it. So here what you have is this isn't just a single purpose bill.
And it's got the amnesty thing in there, allegedly.
And people are concerned that it's only going to go to friends of the president. If this was an independent commission, like this, you and I talked about this six months ago, the asbestos decision commission, where we were trying to find all of the victims that legitimately suffered from invest asbestos from US Navy shipyards. Find the legitimate victims, and let's see that their families are paid. This people thought this was a little one-sided, and that's why they were all flipping out. And even John Thune said, stop it. I'm holding this immigration hostage, unless you Mr. President drop that.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:00)
Humberto.

**Humberto** (3:02)
I mean, we can't forget what's behind this, right? These people that when they literally thought that the vote was stolen, and not all of them, some of them committed crime, they were treated unfairly. Like we saw lawfare.

**Pat** (3:15)
I agree.

**Humberto** (3:16)
We saw lawfare against the president, against Americans, you know, they were sitting there and they have the constitutional right of freedom of speech.
So this is a shame. And then again, this goes into a deeper problem, Pat, that needs to be fixed immediately. I mean, not immediately, but we need to start thinking about it. Bills are getting too big. Like nobody knows what this packages mean anymore.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:37)
Right.

**Humberto** (3:37)
Like nobody reads them. They come in, they put, they put in a hundred issues on these bills, nobody's fully happy with them. They negotiate like, okay, I get this, you get that, I get this, you get that.
And this thing's happened. Like some people get treated unfairly, some things that the American public doesn't want, it gets passed under a bill. So I don't know. I think I'm a single subject bill guy, and it will fix a lot of problems in America if we had like clear bills.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:08)
Yeah, you know, I get, I'm kind of glad this thing is gone because it was such a hot button issue. I mean, giving money to people that potentially beat up cops on January 6th. I do not believe everybody there was wrong. And I believe many of those people were wrongly imprisoned, not taken care of well.
They deserve compensation somehow. I don't know what to do. But, but here's the problem. To government, it doesn't matter. It's just another, I mean, they have a $7.5 trillion budget. $1.8 billion is a, it's a rounding error. It's not even a rounding error, it's less than a rounding error.