Trump Admin Scraps $1.8 Billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ After Backlash

“What you’re doing on this is that you’ve taken one piece and you said, ‘Okay we have had a ton of backlash on this $1.8 billion slush fund, however, so we’ll not move on that,’ but as part of the settlement, which is this immunity for the President and his family and his business, etc. that stands,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D, Md.) said. “Simply put, you just gave the President and his family a tax immunity to the tune of about $100 million.”

Blanche defended the tax term, which had been included in an addendum to the DOJ’s announcement of the fund and not separately announced.

“It’s standard, it’s typical to get rid of past ongoing audits. It’s not a forward-looking document,” Blanche said. “It’s nothing that gives any sort of immunity in the future to the president or his family or his organizations.”

DeLauro, however, said the term exempted Trump “from any accountability.”

“If the President, his associates, and family members were innocent of whatever they were being investigated for, the investigation would surely bear that out,” she said. “But now we will never know.”