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Daily Signal Editor: Biden Govt Was Weaponized, But Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund Isn’t Solution 78%
5/30/2026, 4:12:34 AM
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a federal judge slamming the brakes, at least for now, on President Trump's anti-weaponization fund.
The Trump administration creating the $1.776 billion fund to settle the president's own lawsuit over the leaks of some of his tax returns and to compensate people who say they were targeted by a weaponized government and legal system.
But, a federal judge in Virginia today temporarily blocking the fund from moving forward, ordering the administration not to transfer any money into it, not to set up a DOJ commission to establish payout criteria.
She has effectively stopped the fund's creation in its tracks while litigation is pending to challenge it.
Now, Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman, heading the group that filed the suit, saying the judge's order, quote, "Recognize the urgent need to prevent taxpayer dollars from being distributed through a secretive and unprecedented political compensation scheme."
The Justice Department saying it's extremely confident the fund is legal, pointing to past settlements under Democratic administrations, insisting it's about restitution and not about rewarding violence.
No comment yet from the president.
And joining me now with more, Tyler O'Neil, senior editor at The Daily Signal.
Tyler, thank you so much for joining us.
Great to have you.
Now, a lot has happened since the DOJ announced this settlement and the opening of the anti-weaponization fund.
Take us through the developments that led to this pause.
>> Yeah, so what we had here was an abuse from the IRS where they leaked some of Trump's confidential tax information.
And so, President Trump, to be clear, had a right to sue in this case.
But, the circumstances of the lawsuit were highly questionable from the beginning, partially because you have the sitting president suing his own administration.
And this, you know, raised some alarm bells because this kind of echoes what we've seen from Democratic administrations in a process called sue and settle, where activist groups, usually this is climate activist groups, suing agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.
They sue the agency saying that the agency isn't cracking down on greenhouse gases enough, and the agency, many of these bureaucrats want to then crack down on greenhouse gases.
And so you essentially have this collusion, where the American people were left out in the cold.
Here in this case, we have President Trump, who has a legitimate grievance, bringing a case against the IRS under his own administration, and then the IRS agreeing to settle.
So, what we had here, you know, they they created this settlement with this $1.8 billion fund that is ostensibly to make
whole people who have been who have faced government weaponization.
clear, I think there are a lot of really important cases that we saw from the last administration. Weaponization of government really was real under the government really was real under the last administration, and there are people who have legitimate claims.
But, the nature of this fund raised concerns, and that's why the judge has acted here.
We also have a group of 35 former judges who filed a motion now asking the court to reopen the case, because they say that there was fraud on the court, that this settlement was not legitimate.
So, there are a lot of moving parts to this situation. I think it's very important that we talk about the fact that the government was weaponized, especially against conservatives in the last administration.
We saw no other administration. We saw no other organization than the Southern Poverty Law Center, which now currently faces an indictment for wire fraud and bank fraud, but the Southern Poverty Law Center, which smears mainstream conservative and Christian groups as hate groups, putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, this group was advising the Biden DOJ, even advising prosecutors on the very movement that they the the LGBT anti-LGBTQ movement, which is the smear they use to go after conservative Christian organizations.
Uh so, the weaponization was really bad in the last administration, and I would love to see people who are unfairly targeted
made whole, but this arguably is not the way to go about it.
>> Well, Tyler O'Neil, thank you so much for joining us.
>> Thank you.
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