Trump admin considers nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies targeted in DOJ investigations, sources say

[groundloop]

Source: CNN

Trump administration officials are considering establishing a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate those who feel they have been unfairly investigated under previous administrations, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

The idea was floated as part of ongoing talks between President Donald Trump’s lawyers and DOJ about resolving the president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.

One of the sources described the proposal as an effort to compensate those who have been “wrongly targeted by the weaponization of Biden’s DOJ.” Two other sources suggested the fund would not necessarily be limited to those targeted under former President Joe Biden, but “anyone unfairly investigated under any administration.”

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The fund is expected to be named the “The President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission,” one of the sources told CNN. The proposed $1.776 billion amount is a purposeful nod at the year of the country’s founding, as the America 250 celebration approaches.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/17/politics/irs-doj-trump-fund-billion

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[The Wizard]

1. Allies is

a euphemism for Treasonous Brown Shirt . Trump's private army. It's in "Mein Kampf."

[pfitz59]

2. When will Congress grow a collective spine?

There is no budget for this insanity.

[usonian]

3. They will fight for a corpse.

Strokes, IIRC, sometimes provoke uncontrolled anger.

Bingo. Non-Physician diagnosis. Probably several strokes, and he was discussing (you know what) with Putin and Xi.

They will strap him on to a podium, (or golf cart) and he will issue commands from a chatbot after he's departed. El Cid, style.



He is ALREADY a chatbot.

The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

Judge for yourself.

Tue, Apr 29th 2025 09:34am - Mike Masnick

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something that sounds right. The actual truth of the response is, at best, a secondary consideration.

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But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative AI systems “hallucinating,” we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.

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This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).

The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Up $100 million

Since first reported earlier this week.