Dems can cry corruption all they want – the DOJ’s – Latest News
The rollout of the DOJ’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” could have been botched, however the fund stays a good concept, and the hysteria from Democrats like the hypocritical Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and allied media is absurd.
It’s not unprecedented or corrupt or Trump’s personal “slush fund,” no matter how loudly they shriek.
It’s simply a rebranding of an present legal settlement fund Congress approved a long time in the past, as Washington lawyer and veteran Senate oversight investigator Jason Foster factors out.
Administrations of each events have repeatedly used the DOJ’s “Judgment Fund” to settle legal claims in opposition to the federal authorities, and Democrat administrations have used it for a lot more questionable payouts than the Trump administration’s proposal to compensate real victims of lawfare.
The Biden DOJ paid off FBI anti-Trump plotters Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe, as an illustration, together with quite a few convicted criminals, who alleged unhealthy therapy by the Bureau of Prisons.
By distinction, Trump allies and administration officers who suffered unjustly at the arms of Joe Biden’s weaponized FBI and DOJ, like Michael Caputo, Christina Bobb and Jeff Clark, are genuinely worthy victims who needs to be made complete.
Before the rebranding, retired Gen. Michael Flynn acquired $1.25 million from the DOJ Judgment Fund to settle his civil lawsuit over the “malicious” Russiagate prosecution.
“People are acting as if an authority to settle cases in whatever amounts that the government wants is somehow new,” says Foster, whose firm Empower Oversight represents whistleblowers who’ve sued authorities entities like the FBI and acquired settlements that embrace back pay, legal prices and sometimes their jobs back.
Dishonest Dems
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a fierce critic, faces scrutiny over his son Adam’s Manhattan Epstein connection. image alliance / Consolidated
“The pre-existing Judgment Fund is a everlasting, infinite appropriation that the Attorney General can use to settle any declare. DOJ can and has used it to pay damages ensuing from lawfare/weaponization.
“It can continue doing so in whatever amounts it wants unless Congress repeals or amends 31 U.S.C. § 1304.”
In different phrases, the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is solely a subset of the DOJ’s present limitless Judgment Fund, and the $1.776 billion — get it?! — battle chest the DOJ trumpeted is simply a branding gimmick.
The DOJ clumsily gave an opening to a Democrat smear marketing campaign when it tied the “anti-weaponization fund” to Donald Trump’s legal settlement with the IRS that he would drop his $10 billion lawsuit over the IRS leak of his personal tax info.
In actuality, it has nothing to do with Trump’s settlement.
The fund exists independently, no matter its branding. Agreeing to dismiss his declare with out receiving a penny himself was merely a beneficiant gesture by the president to attempt to make sure that those that have been wronged in his identify are compensated for his or her legal charges, medical payments and different prices.
But Democrats have cynically twisted that generosity into bogus allegations of corruption.
Nobody has been more ferocious or disingenuous in his assaults on the anti-weaponization fund than Wyden, the rating Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.
Wyden’s Ep connection
Wyden accused Trump of setting up a “$1.7 billion slush fund for right-wing political violence . . . It will be the most brazen theft of taxpayer dollars by any president in history.”
Wyden has been in the Senate for 30 years. He is aware of each phrase he stated is inaccurate.
Yet he has demanded investigations, fired off spurious letters to the IRS, Treasury and the Treasury Inspector General and even labored with the godfather of lawfare, Norm Eisen, to steer an Obama choose to reopen Trump’s settlement deal with the IRS that sparked the complete saga.
On Friday, Miami federal Judge Kathleen Williams reopened President Trump’s $10 billion case in opposition to the IRS in response to court docket papers filed by an activist group of former federal judges assembled by Eisen, who urged her to “investigate serious misconduct.”
What’s she going to do? Force Trump to take the compensation?
As Wyden prepares to excoriate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the fund in a Senate listening to this week, it’s value declaring that the slippery senator is the final one that needs to be throwing stones.
He poses as an accountability crusader however has escaped scrutiny for controversies nearer to home — whether or not that home is in Oregon or New York, the place he maintains a residence and his spouse runs her business, is one other query.
For occasion, Wyden has spent months hammering Trump and the DOJ over their handling of the Epstein information, accusing them of attempting to brush proof underneath the rug and alleging with out proof that he’s discovered a money path that results in Trump.
Yet he claims he is aware of nothing about his own household connection to Trump — an April 2016 appointment at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion between Wyden’s son Adam and the pervert financier.
mansion between Wyden’s son Adam and the pervert financier.
Adam Wyden sought investment backing from Epstein utilizing his father’s Senate positions and committee assignments as the lure, based on emails launched by the DOJ as half of the Epstein information dump.
“I don’t speak to my kids about their business activities,” is all Sen. Wyden needed to say when confronted by Fox News Digital.
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Yeah, we’ve heard that earlier than, from Wyden’s pal Joe Biden, about his grifter son Hunter.
Fishy funds
Then there’s the Strand Building in Manhattan, the Wyden household’s prize possession, inherited by the senator’s spouse, Nancy Bass Wyden. In 2018, voice-over coach Peter Rofé was accused of sexually abusing dozens of ladies over twenty years in his studio, one flooring above the Strand bookstore.
He was first arrested in 2004 for allegedly exposing himself in the building during a recording session, however remained a tenant of the Wyden household, whereas the alleged sexual abuse continued for years.
How did the Wydens miss the warning indicators for thus long?
Meanwhile, Wyden’s stock portfolio performs higher than Nancy Pelosi’s miraculous Midas pot. He has the distinction of being the third-best stock performer in Congress, with entry to particular info.
In 2024, whereas he was chairman of the Finance Committee, Wyden’s portfolio grew more than 120%, far exceeding the S&P 500’s 25% gain that yr.
Maybe he’s simply fortunate, however there’s more smoke in his financial preparations than in the bogus scandal he’s been whipping up out of the DOJ anti-weaponization fund.
