Attorneys for Donald Trump are telling a federal judge to back off her tentative attempts to look into the mechanics of a settlement that purported to create a controversial $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” for the president’s allies and supporters.

In January, Trump’s original lawsuit against the IRS was filed in the Southern District of Florida. By the middle of May, however, the case was closed – on the plaintiff’s own request – with the 45th and 47th president opting instead for a publicly subsidized fund that would reward pro-Trump stalwarts and others similarly situated.

Under the terms of the settlement, eligible claimants are people who were subjected to the “sustained use of the levers of government power by Democrat elected officials, political and career federal employees, contractors, and agents in order to target” them for “improper and unlawful political, personal, and/or ideological reasons.”

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      No, they didn’t. They were told and you were told that they got immunity, but that’s not actually how that works. Government workers say lots of things that are not actually backed by law, and are in fact false.

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        Yeah the fun part about DOJ memos and a non impartial DOJ is the next AG can just write a memo saying “nuh-uh, Blanche has poopy pants and everything he wrote is wrong”