A NCS panel was shocked by President Donald Trump’s creation of an almost $1.8 billion taxpayer-backed slush-fund for his allies who really feel they had been wronged by the Biden administration.
The Department of Justice introduced the fund on Monday after dropping his $10 billion suit in opposition to the IRS for failing to defend Trump from press leaks.
“Now, they say there’s no partisan requirement here, but it’s clear who the target audience is,” mentioned NCS chief authorized affairs correspondent Paula Reid.
“The president’s team, they continue to point to what they say is a similar fund that was established under the Obama administration,” Reid mentioned. “This was the Keepseagle Fund. Now, that was a much smaller fund that was only $760 million, but that was to address various claims alleging racism connected to the Department of Agriculture. So we’re talking about a much larger group of potential victims and a much smaller fund. But that’s what they keep pointing to.”
“Have we ever seen anything like this in the history of this country?” requested host Dana Bash.
“No,” Reid answered. “I want to know, first of all, the people at the negotiating table were President Trump’s personal lawyers and the lawyers from the White House, the Justice Department, and the IRS — all part of his administration. There was no outside voice.”
“Look, we know this is going to have a political consequence,” Reid continued. “There’s already political blowback from Democrats, but there’s going to be a lot of litigation around this. There really is nothing quite like this. And I would not be surprised to see this question and questions about this fund before the Supreme Court in the next year or so.”
Special correspondent Jamie Gangel added, “The legal professional normal goes to appoint 5 individuals who will oversee this fund if it goes ahead — if the courts don’t cease it. Todd Blanche is the performing legal professional normal. He needs to be the legal professional normal. So you might be positive this cash is to go to Trump allies, that the 5 those that Todd Blanche picks will likely be 5 those that Donald Trump approves of. So, once more, it it simply underscores that that is Trump allies benefiting from an enormous quantity of — let’s say it once more — taxpayer cash.
Watch the clip above by way of NCS.
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