Bannon stayed quiet during his 4 months in low-security jail. Makes sense that’s worth a minor kickback, at least.
Though he already got pardoned for his $25m in wire fraud for “We Build the Wall”.
Treasury’s top lawyer, a former Clarence Thomas clerk and a Trump appointee, resigned. No public comment, but the timing makes it hard to think it isn’t in protest over this.
Summary of Trump’s corruption if you have lost track.
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In many other countries a politician caught doing this would be removed for interest for conflict of interest.
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Donors to the president’s campaign are also not barred from applying for taxpayer money from the newly created fund open to people who claim to be victims of government “weaponization,” Blanche said Tuesday.
A five-member commission — with members appointed by Blanche — will manage the fund. Trump told reporters on Monday that who gets paid will be “dependent on a committee” made up of “very talented people, very highly respected people.”
Blanche told senators that the fund will compensate Americans after “years and years of weaponization” under the Biden administration, which the president and his allies have accused of leading a government-wide conspiracy against them.
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Banana Republic shit imo.
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Agreed. Corruption is fully out in the open now.
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Wow. GOP senators actually told the Glorious Geezer “no” regarding the slush fund.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5890532-senate-republicans-trump-fund-blanche/
Just wait until after the midterms.
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Perhaps I ought to give our GOP Senators more goodwill, but I read between the lines as “The GOP wants more control over the slush fund”
GOP senators pressed Blanche during a tense meeting in the Capitol’s Mansfield Room to accept guardrails to limit who could get paid by the fund
Senate Republicans also urged Blanche to consider giving Congress more oversight over the appointment of commissioners to administer the fund, something Blanche refused to budge on
Republican senators stormed out of the meeting announcing they would not vote to advance the budget reconciliation package because they could not reach agreement on language over how to set guardrails for the fund.
“There will not be a vote today,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
Not the point I know, but: Can you really undermine trust in a system that no one already trusts?
I think there are degrees of trust.
I trusted the DOJ and IRS more before Trump took office than I do now.
LegalEagle has a video about the $1.776B deal. You know where to find it, if interested. One thing that struck me the most was regarding the widely-reported figure of $1.776B. He had in his hand what he said was a copy of the deal. He said nowhere in the document does it mention $1.776B. In fact, nowhere in the document does it mention any amount at all. It apparently is effectively a limitless slush fund.
Judge orders the Trump v IRS suit reopened due to questions about whether the settlement was a fraud on the court.
That article mentions that a group of judges had asked this judge to consider this action on those grounds. (Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/judges-trump-deal-irs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.OsZh.aI8J7cw3fJus&smid=url-share )