Remarkable use of our tax dollars
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Link to video
This is beyond the pale. It's easy to say but it's true.
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Yes, and the Senate is furious.
As I said in another thread, Republicans and the Acting Attorney General got into a shouting match and the Senate shut down with the House following suit.
Basically, Trump demanded everything he wanted, all at once; or, in other words, he wanted a rubber stamp.
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I wondered earlier if Comey, Powell, or Kelly might apply. Don’t know about them, but Michael Cohen says he will.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-anti-weaponization-fund-claim-trump-lawyer/
wtg said:
I wondered earlier if Comey, Powell, or Kelly might apply. Don’t know about them, but Michael Cohen says he will.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-anti-weaponization-fund-claim-trump-lawyer/
I was sort of kidding about Comey and Powell. But...
Former FBI Director James Comey, who the justice department indicted twice in the span of eight months in cases that criminal law experts have deemed legally dubious, told CNN he might apply for the fund.
"It appears that they're serious," said Comey, who has publicly sparred with Trump since the president fired him as FBI director in 2017. "It's to compensate people who have been targeted by the justice department for, they say, personal, political, or ideological reasons."
"So I'm guessing, I'll be in line," Comey said. "I hope I'll be ahead of those who savagely beat police officers and sacked the Capitol."
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wtg said:
I wondered earlier if Comey, Powell, or Kelly might apply. Don’t know about them, but Michael Cohen says he will.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-anti-weaponization-fund-claim-trump-lawyer/
I was sort of kidding about Comey and Powell. But...
Former FBI Director James Comey, who the justice department indicted twice in the span of eight months in cases that criminal law experts have deemed legally dubious, told CNN he might apply for the fund.
"It appears that they're serious," said Comey, who has publicly sparred with Trump since the president fired him as FBI director in 2017. "It's to compensate people who have been targeted by the justice department for, they say, personal, political, or ideological reasons."
"So I'm guessing, I'll be in line," Comey said. "I hope I'll be ahead of those who savagely beat police officers and sacked the Capitol."
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@Bernard Yes, I guess they would be.
I doubt that Comey is actually going to apply. I think he's just pointing out the unintended consequences and needling Trump about the lawfare he is exercising against Comey
Cohen falls in the camp with the rioters, at least theoretically. Lawfare by the Biden administration against him. And I'm guessing he's more desperate for money, which I doubt Comey is. I've never thought of him as someone acting on principle.
I would be totally surprised if Powell applied for compensation. as a matter of fact, I doubt he would ever even make any comments about the compensation fund, and certainly not while he's still a Fed governor.
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A federal judge signaled Friday she may reopen a legal case between President Trump and his own government that led the Justice Department to create a controversial $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund," ordering the president's lawyers to respond to allegations of "deception" and "fraud."
U.S. Judge Kathleen Williams issued the four-page order after dozens of retired federal judges asked her to reopen the president's lawsuit, arguing the government and Mr. Trump may have "deceived" Williams into dismissing the case.
Williams wrote that the former judges raised "grievous allegations" that Mr. Trump sought to dismiss the case "solely to avoid judicial scrutiny of a lawsuit that 'was collusive from the start' and was only filed to provide the imprimatur of legality for an unlawful settlement."
She directed the president to file a response by June 12, laying out their responses to the former judges' allegations of "collusion" and "deception," and "the question of whether the case should be reopened because the Court was the 'victim of a fraud.'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-orders-trump-answer-questions-anti-weaponization-fund-fraud/
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President Trump’s top aides have discussed whether he should kill the administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in exchange for getting immigration enforcement funding passed next month, according to people familiar with the matter.
More than a dozen Republican senators have privately urged top Trump aides to drop the fund since its creation last week, said people familiar with the outreach, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who is usually supportive of the president’s efforts.
Administration officials have grown increasingly concerned about the viability of the fund, people familiar with the matter said, which had been expected to provide payouts to an array of Trump allies.
Trump hasn’t agreed to drop the fund, but has told allies that he understands he has political problems with Senate Republicans, the people said. On Friday, a federal judge ordered a pause on efforts to stand up the fund while she weighs a legal challenge in an Eastern Virginia federal court.
Senate Republicans pressed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the fund at a contentious meeting last week that Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) referred to as one of the roughest in his years in the Senate. Another person who was at the meeting said it was the toughest grilling of an administration official they had ever seen from Republican senators.
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