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Joe Rogan Calls Out "Crazy" Trump Move—"That's Nuts"
Rogan said the agreement creates a taxpayer-funded compensation pool and bars the IRS from auditing Trump and his family, calling it "so crazy."
- Podcast host Joe Rogan expressed shock Monday on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' at President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded 'anti-weaponization' compensation fund, declaring it 'crazy' while speaking with comedian Tom Segura.
- The settlement stemmed from IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn's 2019 leak of Trump's tax returns to The New York Times; Trump withdrew his $10 billion lawsuit after reaching an agreement with the DOJ, which created the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.
- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a one-page directive permanently barring the IRS from pursuing tax claims or audits against Trump, his family, trusts, and companies, prompting Rogan to compare the arrangement to immunity from prosecution by saying, 'You just go straight Uday Hussein.'
- Both Democrats and Republicans criticized the settlement, with Senator Thom Tillis calling it 'stupid on stilts' and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell questioning a 'slush fund to pay people who assault cops.'
- Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter said the nation has not seen presidential conflicts of interest this severe since the Civil War, while tax immunity could save Trump more than $600 million on $1.4 billion earned in 2025, coinciding with disclosure of at least $220 million in stock trades.
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NYP Board Blasts Trump's Corruption: "Terrible Look"
The New York Post editorial board writes: No two ways about it: The Trump Justice Department settlement of the Trump IRS lawsuit looks terrible. A blanket guarantee that the prez and his family will never ever face an IRS audit? A $1.8 billon “anti-weaponization fund,” courtesy of the taxpayers, to be doled out to people who claim they were victimized by Biden-era “lawfare” — with no evident need to even show evidence? And it landed about the sa…
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