The New Republic77%
Trump Admits His Slush Fund Plans Loud and Clear 67%
By Hafiz Rashid85%
7/31/2026, 11:57:43 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Primacy Effect, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 33.3% saturation with 115 hits. Analysis detected 816 faulty-reasoning hits from 345 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.3% and a BS Rank of 67% (9,290 of 27,378 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.10% of the article peer group.
President Trump won’t let go of his corrupt IRS settlement.
At a Cabinet meeting hosted Friday at Camp David in Maryland, Trump was asked by a reporter whether the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created by his settlement with the IRS, which set aside $1.776 billion for anyone who felt politically prosecuted by the government, was actually dead and, if it was, why the Department of Justice wouldn’t put that in writing.
“Well, it is dead, but you know, I wish it weren’t, to be honest with you.
I think people were horribly treated, horribly abused,” Trump said .
“I’d like to see them compensated for the pain.
They lost their families.
They committed suicide, many people committed suicide.”
Trump on the weaponization fund: "It's dead, but I wish it weren't" pic.twitter.com/2S4pyKt5xm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 31, 2026
So just to recap: Trump doesn’t want the slush fund dead, despite past claims from the Department of Justice that the fund isn’t moving forward.
Trump was also asked about whether he was willing to waive the settlement’s provision that he, his family, and his businesses would be protected from all IRS audits in the future in order to have acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed.
He dodged the question, only saying Blanche “should be confirmed forthwith.”
All of this points to Trump trying to hold on to the IRS settlement even after federal judges have ruled against it.
It raises the question of whether he’s still going to try and implement the fund secretly—and validates the Republican holdouts who are refusing to confirm Blanche until they get some answers.
As an aside, Trump’s claim that the fund is necessary due to suicide among January 6 insurrectionists is rich.
On Thursday, New Jersey Governor Mike Sherill proclaimed July 30 “Brian Sicknick Day,” in honor of the Capitol Police officer and Garden State native who died from his injuries one day after responding to the Capitol riots.
Four other police officers who responded to the riots committed suicide within seven months.
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