US Senator Elizabeth Warren has slammed the Donald Trump administration’s settlement of his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. She labeled the settlement as “corruption on steroids.” Warren’s clip comes after the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to drop the lawsuit in exchange for creating a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund.”
US Senator Elizabeth Warren slams Donald Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ of nearly $1.8 billion
US Senator Elizabeth Warren has slammed Donald Trump‘s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” of nearly $1.8 billion. The Trump administration announced on Monday that the fund is being created to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been wrongfully investigated and prosecuted.
“Donald Trump is stealing your money. His Department of Justice just created a $1.8 billion slush fund to give your taxpayer dollars to his political buddies. This level of corruption is truly staggering,” said Warren in the clip.
As per the Senator, “Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns back during his first term.” She added that his “personal lawyers and his DOJ lawyers reached a sham settlement.” Eloborating further, Warren stated that “in exchange for dropping the case, Trump gets $1.8 billion to dole out to his buddies.”
She revealed that the “hard-earned money” of the people would go to those “who attacked the capital on January 6th.” “Look, this is corruption on steroids,” she expressed. The senator urged people to help put a stop to this by helping Democrats “win back power in November.”
According to the Associated Press, nearly 100 Democrats in the House of Representatives also signed onto a legal brief requesting that a judge block the resolution. They believe it would only enrich people close to the president with taxpayer dollars. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, also made a statement. He claimed that the case is “nothing but a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the Treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump.”
