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Trump abandons the $ 1.8 billion slush fund uh in humiliating U-turn as his own party turns against them. Of course, that's Daily Mail. I'll read this to you. Donald Trump abandons the 1.8 billion. Uh the fund was created as part of a settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over leaking the 2019 tax return to the media. Uh lawmakers from both parties have criticized the president and labeled it slush fund. It's now being killed after Speaker of the House Mike Johnson raised objections to the White House fund during a private meeting with the president on Monday afternoon. It's dead for now. One senior administration told Axio's Republicans
have opposed the fund over fears it would provide monetary compensation to J6 capital riders who assaulted police. Uh John Thun is holding hostage a bill Trump wanted to fund immigration enforcement. The GOP leader said he would not advance the legislation until Republicans receive assurance that the fund would not be used to pay the president's allies. Tom, so two things going on in this thing. First of all, there are people that didn't like it because they don't like who's getting paid. Because if the J6 people, Pat, let's say some person J6 is given $200,000 to help cancel out all those legal bills that they had that they were illicitly, you know, illegitimately prosecuted. Okay, fine. But what's
deeper in there is the enemies of this bill, and I think John Thun is one of them, which is why he's holding hostage immigration bill. They didn't like the fact that they claim inside this bill is also a Trump amnesty clause on the on taxes and tax related matters. So, as it goes in Washington, if you don't have a singlepurpose bill, you never know exactly what everybody's upset with. Remember when we covered the Biden inflation bill and we peeled that back and we proved there was money going to Ukraine and other things. were like, "Wait a minute. The inflation reduction act domestic, more than half of the dollars in it were
going internationally, specifically to the Ukraine war. Stop." And there's an example of the other side. People didn't like that Biden bill because they said, "No, no, no. There's a bunch of bad stuff in it." So, here what you have is this isn't just a single purpose bill and it's got the amnesty thing in there allegedly and people are concerned that it's only going to go to friends of the president. If this was an independent commission like the as um you and I talked about this six months ago, the asbestous decision commission where we were trying to find all of the victims that legitimately suffered from invest u asbestous from US Navy shipyards. Find the legitimate victims and let's see
that their families are paid. This people thought this was a little one-sided and that's why they were all flipping out and even John Thun said, "Stop it. I'm holding this immigration hostage unless you Mr. President drop that. Berto, uh I mean we can't forget what's behind this. All right. These people that uh went they literally thought that the vote was stolen and not all of them. Some of them committed crime. They were treated unfairly. Like we saw Laware. I agree. We saw Laware against the president against Americans. You know, they were sitting there and they have the constitutional right of freedom of speech. Um, so, so this is a shame. And then again, this goes into a deeper
problem, Pat, that needs to be fixed immediately. I mean, not immediately, but we need to start thinking about it. Uh, bills are getting too big. Like, nobody knows what these packages mean anymore, right? Like, nobody reads them. They come in, they put in a hundred issues on these bills. Nobody's h fully happy with them. They negotiate like, "Okay, I get this, you get that, I get this, you get that." and uh and these things happen like some people get treated unfairly. Some things that the American public doesn't want it gets passed under a bill. So, I don't know. I think I'm I'm a single subject bill guy and it will fix a lot of problems in America if we had like clear bills, right?
Yeah. You know, I get I'm kind of glad this thing is gone because it was such a hot button issue. I mean, giving money to people that potentially beat up cops on January 6. I do not believe everybody there was wrong. And I and I believe many of those people were wrongly imprisoned, not taken care of. Well, they I they deserve compensation somehow. I don't know what to do. But here's the problem. To government, it doesn't matter. It's just another I mean it's they have a $7.5 trillion budget. $1.8 billion dollar is a it's it's a rounding error. It's not even a rounding error. It's less than a rounding error. And so they're just kind of getting away.
You pay him some money and you get away with wronging people. And the thing that bothers me the most about lawfare and people breaking the law in government is that most of them go scot-free. And I it seems like Trump and his first year uh his first term staffers and I can think of a bunch of them who have massive legal bills were thrown in jail. Steve Bannon like and that should have never happened. and whoever did that to him, they need to be punished. And so Trump, for some reason, they're not getting punished. So, we came up with this idea of, well, let's pay them. And I think we need to do is punish the wrongdoers um and the people who use lawfare rather than just compensating people who have been wronged.
Yeah. And I mean I that was the thing I was the most upset about when he first got into office because he had maximum political capital like probably the most political capital I've ever seen in my life of somebody coming into office and just having the backing of the public to do whatever he wanted, right? You know, he had enough of that to really go extreme and root that stuff out, the people that did what you're describing there. And rather than that, yeah, like a little bit of a payoff and at this time like timing is everything. And with um the Iran war stuff going on with inflation going on, it's a you know, it's not a politically palatable time to try to push this, you know, down the
public's throats. So, I wish he came out like hot and heavy um clearing all those people out in the first place because that's something that's going to persist, you know, now the president's been set. If he didn't root if he doesn't root it out, then it's going to like keep going on for anybody who tries to run the same the way that he ran. Do you have that story, Rob, you were talking about where he is talking to an ABC reporter and do you have that? Yep, this is it. No, go ahead. Rob told ABC News he will abide by recent court rulings temporarily blocking his $1.8 billion weaponization fund. We are subject to the courts. The president said at this moment that's what it is.
Trump said the fund which couldn't be a king like uh Rob you made a point earlier. Would a king be okay with the court not saying yes to him? Look, I mean, just that statement alone destroyed an entire march that people are doing. That's devastating to a community. Rob, this is horrible news to the no king's uh protesters. Did this man that's trying to be a king just say, "Well, if the court says no, we can't do nothing." Tom, how do you feel about that? I know, you know, you're deeply concerned about the no kings protest. But, uh, I think you're absolutely correct. And I like what Brandon just said. with all the political capital in day one, he should have said, I am appointing a n a 911 commission for J6 and I'm gonna have a commission. I want
to know did Pelosi call down the uh Capitol police? Did she back them off? Did she refuse them? And for all the people that were incarcerated, let's re-review the cases one by one. And so you could have had a commission that did both. You're guilty. You're corrupt. and you five guys, we're sorry you had to spend time. Here is a uh settlement from the United States of America, and you could have put the whole thing at a commission that looks evenhanded on both sides because I wanted justice. I didn't like just the sweeping pardons. I wanted to see both sides brought to it so that we could say as a country, okay, bad day, bad people, bad decisions, corrupt motives. Here they are. Bright light of day. Here's
the commission. This is what we're doing. I wanted to see that. Um, and then to do it this way and also you've got the immunity thing in there, Pat, then that just becomes just another Washington bill where you're you're packing stuff in there that people didn't know about and then people point it out and then it looks bad. You know what it that's a perfect point because if they would have done it individually it how many cities have given u uh money to the families of victims of the police or that were wrongly committed. So why wouldn't that do it individually instead of like collective everybody together 1.8 billion you sound like that's too far.
Yeah. Can they now go back and readjust or it's too late? Can they readjust? I think with this money, yeah, I don't think I think they have to do a whole new process for sure. But some of these individuals, dude, they went to jail for no reason. They're sitting there like, "What are you talking?" Imagine you husband and wife, the kids don't see the father for a couple years your way. Yeah. So, he was standing next to the building. Yeah. Because he was standing there. So, can they go back and individually go through each one of these or No, they could do a commission right now, Pat. They could restart right now. My
point about Brandon was on day one with all that political capital, you could have got it done at a heart. Well, we what I'm saying is that was a screw- up. Let's just say that's a fumble that they made. Now, what do you do now? I'm not doing the slush fund. I want to point a commission and I want to know the people that were corrupt, the cops. I want to do everything. He could turn that and do it right now. I hope he does that. I hope he does that because there were some people that were unfairly accused of things and it disrupted their lives uh in a major way. The big game is around the corner. They're already talking about the matchups, who's
playing against who the different people are representing different countries. Obviously, I live in an interesting community where a lot of uh soccer players uh live. We knew when they left to go off to Kansas City. Uh Messi's in Kansas City. This is going to be the most amazing thing. Everyone's looked, there was so many interesting stats. The most ever players above 40 years old playing in the World Cup. The youngest player is a 17-year-old kid from uh I think from Mexico if I'm not mistaken. There's going to be some interesting stories, but uh we had these hats that we made representing different countries. Okay. And believe it or not, for Iran, we had the old Shawan Shahi Muhammad Al Sha
Palavi's flag right here, which is sick. And I think there's a couple of those hats left. Rob, if you want to play this clip, go for it. Downs down the down. down up down. All right, you can pause it right there, Rob. Whether it's Argentina, whether it's Brazil, whether it's US, which the US hats look ridiculous, or whether it's Iran, any of them. Go to vmerge.com, place your order, get the hat, get it for yourself, get it for your friends. But, uh, go to vtmerch.com to place your order and represent your country for this summer. If you enjoy this video, you want to watch more videos like this,
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