The fund has “not been set up and is now not going forward,” the filing said.
Following a week of controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” a Department of Justice attorney said in a court filing Friday that the fund is not moving forward.
In a court filing on Friday, a DOJ attorney argued that one of the lawsuits challenging the controversial fund is moot because the fund has “not been set up and is now not going forward.”Â
The $1.776 billion fund, announced last month, was established by the Justice Department to compensate those who allege they were wrongly targeted under the Biden administration.
It was created in exchange for President Donald Trump agreeing to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS as well as two civil claims for $230 million related to the Russia collusion investigation he faced during his first term in office and the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate — sparking accusations of self-dealing and a bipartisan uproar over the possible use of taxpayer money to pay rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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