Legal scholar warned for years that Trump would exploit this fund —and he was right (opens in new tab)

” at the Department of Justice may have shocked a lot of people, but not Paul Figley, a legal scholar and former DOJ staffer who has spent years in just this way.The fund, the result of a settlement of legal claims by Donald Trump and his family against the IRS, aims to compensate those who “suffered weaponization and lawfare” at the hands of the federal government. It has already been called a , which noted – as many have – that it’s likely to pay much of its US$1.8 billion funding to Trump ...