Republican senators want more answers on $1.8 billion settlement fund as Trump considers its future

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans will meet Tuesday to discuss next steps after the Justice Department said it would comply with a court order pausing the implementation of a $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate President Donald Trump’s political allies.

GOP senators who revolted against the settlement before leaving for a Memorial Day recess two weeks ago say they want more information from the administration about the future of the fund, which could potentially go to Trump supporters who beat police and attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Meanwhile, Trump is reconsidering whether to move forward with it at all, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

Caught in the middle is legislation that would fund Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies for three years. Republicans abruptly left town without passing it after Democrats said they would offer amendments to scrap or scale back the judgment fund, forcing Republicans to go on the record for or against it and endangering the money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-fund-jan6-capitol-riot-ca5117e01c780207bd612d3f1bc98e90

[Lovie777]

1. Republicans need to stop this shit....................

enough already.

[YodaMom2]

2. Rachel Maddow's opening segment discussed this at length.

Two separate judges have opened investigations into the underlying $10B lawsuit. There is evidence to suggest that the suit itself was fraud, merely a contrivance to justify the “settlement”, which was the objective all along.

tRump perpetrating fraud? I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you….

[Cheezoholic]

3. Consider its plain illegal you idiots and quit trying to make this crap the new normal. Shit's gotta stop man n/t

[31st Street Bridge]

4. Translation: The other criminals want their $$$$, too

The entire government is an organized crime syndicate owned by Israel, run by Russia and in service to billionaires.

[Justice matters.]

5. The only answer is, your mob boss is about to get investigated by the Judge

for his obviously lawless attempt to defraud taxpayers out of $1,776,000,000 that belongs to the Treasury.

[Marcuse]

6. An honest government lawyer would make him prove the extent of the damage, if any.