Announced on Monday, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice handed the U.S. president a $1.8 billion fund financed by taxpayers, which could be used to compensate Trump’s allies — including those prosecuted for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The “Anti-Weaponisation Fund” was established by the DoJ “in exchange” for the Trump family to drop their $10 billion lawsuit against Trump’s IRS disclosing their tax returns.
If all this sounds…off to you, critics have called out Trump’s “slush fund,” including late show hosts like Stephen Colbert — and The Daily Show‘s Ronny Chieng breaks it down in the clip above.
“If you’re confused by what’s going on here, I went to law school OK? So let me explain it to you visually,” said Chieng, showing a graphic to demonstrate. “Donald Trump, the man, is suing the IRS, which happens to be headed by Donald Trump, the president, which then reached a settlement with the Justice Department, headed by a man named Donald Trump, to create a slush fund controlled by, you guessed it, Donald Trump.”
“This guy’s playing 5D Chess with corruption here,” the host later added. “I bet he’s building the ballroom just so he can do a slip and fall.”
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