Independent, UK - Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is launching an unprecedented effort to reward those friends and supporters of the president who were prosecuted or investigated for crimes under previous Democratic administrations by doling out as much as $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds in a new “anti-weaponization fund.”
The new initiative was announced Monday by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was Trump’s personal defense counsel in the multiple criminal cases that were brought against the then-former president for allegedly unlawfully retaining classified documents after the end of his first term and attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election to avoid leaving office after losing that election to Joe Biden.
Blanche said the new compensation fund is being established to settle a $10 billion lawsuit that Trump, his children and his eponymous real estate and hotel company had filed against the IRS after a contractor for the agency leaked his tax returns to the New York Times during his first term.
According to the Justice Department, the fund will be administered by a five-member commission appointed by Blanche, with one member chosen in consultation with Congress.
Alternet America - This week, another Republican official arrested in a child predator sting. Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old chairman of the Weld County Republican Party in Colorado, was arrested Thursday during an undercover operation targeting child predators. Investigators posted ads online posing as minors offering sexual acts; several dozen people responded. Rivera was one of two men who arrived at the agreed-upon location.
Rivera faces four felony charges: soliciting a child prostitute, internet luring of a child, cybercrime solicitation involving a minor, and attempted sexual assault on a child. He was held on a $6,500 cash-only bond,
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