[Thread] Hypocrisy in Action!!!

Justice Department announces nearly $1.8B fund to compensate #Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Updated 8:49 PM EDT, May 18, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — "The Trump administration announced Monday the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted, an arrangement that Democrats and government watchdogs derided as 'corrupt' and unconstitutional.

"The 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' of $1.776 billion is part of a settlement that resolves President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns. It will allow people who believe they were targeted for prosecution for political purposes, including by the Biden administration Justice Department, to apply for payouts, creating what acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called 'a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.'

" 'The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,' [THEN DEFUND ICE & DHS!!!] Blanche said in a statement that made no mention of how investigations and prosecutions of Trump’s political opponents under his watch have exposed the Justice Department to the same claims of politicized law enforcement that he said he opposed."

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8

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Judge orders release of #PortlandME teen from #ICE facility after 6 months

PORTLAND (WGME) – "A Portland teen who has been held in a Texas ICE facility for more than six months is reportedly set to be released by Friday.

That's according to Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who traveled to the facility this week to demand that ICE release 19-year-old #OliviaAndre .

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"She is originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was a first-year nursing student in Portland when she was taken into custody.

"#DHS previously said Andre is in the United States illegally but didn’t explain why the rest of her family was released and she wasn't.

"Pingree called the conditions at the facility inhumane, and Andre's lawyer says her physical and mental wellbeing deteriorated from not having access to clean drinking water, palatable food and appropriate medical care.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/judge-orders-release-of-portland-teen-from-ice-facility-after-6-months/ar-AA22zjF4

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