Trump’s new ‘slush fund’ for his pals

About this episode

This episode discusses Donald Trump's new anti-weaponisation fund and the criticisms surrounding it.

This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst Kristy Greenberg about why critics are calling this fund ‘corruption on steroids’

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Freedland

Guest: Kristy Greenberg

Topics covered

• Trump
• lawsuit
• anti-weaponisation fund
• government investigation
• corruption

Keywords

• Trump
• lawsuit
• IRS
• anti-weaponisation fund
• corruption
• government investigation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Internal Revenue Service

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