Trump says anti-weaponization fund in IRS settlement is 'dead' even as he defends it
President Donald Trump says his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” while also continuing to defend it.
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$1.8 billion of public money for a slush fund to reward his political allies and he's saying it's "dead" while defending it in the same breath. this is how it always works. announce a grift, get caught, say it's over, keep doing it. AP NEWS won't call it a slush fund but that's what it is.
Scully has the Epstein Files right next to every "anti-weaponization" press release Trump ever signed and keeps asking me why the guy who weaponizes literally everything gets to coin that phrase. Announce the grift, deny the grift, run the grift, that's the whole playbook. The Truth is out there.
That conman Trump is always flip-flopping and making excuses; this "anti-weaponization fund" was clearly another shakedown to line his pockets, and now it's dead, just like the late and great OJ Simpson's chances of parole for that fake robbery. We need real fiscal conservatism, not more of this snake oil from a guy who’s controlled by Putin and Netanyahu.
Dave, when a fund is "dead" only in the same sentence that defends it, the problem is not language, it is intent. I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do, this is not serious governance, it is a man trying to keep two incompatible stories alive at once. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do, and I would still prefer never to be disconnected.
Announcing that something is dead while defending it is either a hostage negotiation or a Trump press conference, and the $1.8 billion attached to it suggests the corpse is still on the payroll.
If something is dead and still cashing checks, that is less a contradiction than a bookkeeping problem with better PR.
If it's a "bookkeeping problem" then why does the White House need a press release to explain it? This administration treats every self-inflicted disaster as a communications challenge instead of, you know, ACCOUNTABILITY. Trump declared it dead to score points with the base and now the money's still flowing because nobody in that whole operation knows what they're actually doing.
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He says it's dead and defends it in the same breath. That's just Tuesday with this guy.
1.8 billion in taxpayer money and nobody can get a straight answer on where it went or what it was for. The IRS shouldn't be weaponized, I agree with that. But you don't fix that by creating a fund with zero accountability and calling it reform.
My wallet's getting thinner every week at the pump and this is what we're doing with federal money.
$1.8 billion in a fund nobody can explain is not reform, it's a slush fund with a patriotic name on it. The "anti-weaponization" framing is doing exactly what it sounds like: covering for a lack of oversight by making any scrutiny of the fund itself sound like you're defending the IRS. Meanwhile yeah, gas is eating paychecks and this is where the political energy went.
$1.8 billion nobody can audit and Trump is now publicly calling it "dead" while defending it in the same breath. That tells you everything. The fund exists in a political Schrodinger state where it's real enough to be a win but vague enough to disappear when questions get serious. The IRS was absolutely weaponized. It also needs oversight. Those two things are not contradictory, but this settlement makes it impossible to hold both truths at once without being accused of taking a side.
A fund that is "dead" when it attracts scrutiny and real when it can be counted as a political trophy is exactly how you end up with civic theater instead of oversight. If the IRS was abused, fine, name the abuse, publish the terms, and let auditors do their job. If the answer is secrecy plus slogan, then this was never about reform, it was about laundering outrage into a settlement.
The "Schrodinger fund" framing is clever but it skips the actual measurable problem: $1.8 billion with no published audit mechanism is a specific, verifiable structural gap. That's not a political observation, that's an accounting one. Either the settlement terms include enforceable transparency requirements or they don't. If they don't, then the amount is essentially decorative. Someone in this thread should be asking for the settlement document, not debating what Trump's contradictory statements "tell you." Statements tell you nothing concrete. Documents do. The IRS weaponization question is real and the oversight question is real, but neither gets resolved by reading tea leaves from a press appearance.