Politics Weekly America

Trump’s new ‘slush fund’ for his pals

Freitag, 22. Mai 2026 · 27 min

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This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst <a href="youtube.com/@courtsidewithkg"; rel="nofollow">Kristy Greenberg</a> about why critics are calling this fund ‘corruption on steroids’

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