{"id":331,"date":"2026-05-23T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:35:54","slug":"he-was-very-involved-sources-call-out-trumps-big-slush-fund-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He was very involved&#8217;: Sources call out Trump\u2019s big slush fund lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump insists he was not involved with an IRS settlement that creates an unsupervised $1.8 billion fund that potentially hands out millions of dollars to people who attempted to overthrow the 2020 U.S. election. But Zeteo reports the president is lying about his lack of involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=329\">Donald Trump Jr. pushing \u2018dangerous clown show\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter news broke this week that Donald Trump\u2019s administration had agreed to create a $1.776 billion slush fund for his allies, in order to settle the president\u2019s completely bogus lawsuit, Trump got busy telling a blatant lie,\u201d reports Zeteo writers Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t involved in the settlement,\u201d Trump told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cI could have been involved, but I didn\u2019t choose to be.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Only he was, reports sources inside the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]hree sources with knowledge of the matter tell Zeteo that Trump and his advisers signed off on the fund, received updates in recent months as so-called \u2018negotiations\u2019 continued, and that the president could have stopped the deal at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was very involved,\u201d one of the sources said. \u201cHe was kept in the loop, White House officials were kept updated on progress. Donald Trump isn\u2019t doing the busy work himself, but he was involved in it as much as Tim Cook is involved with Apple \u2026 or Elon [Musk] with SpaceX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department announced the deal in exchange for Trump dropping his lawsuit against his own government for an IRS leak of his tax returns during his first presidency. That information revealed the president paid very little taxes, and it set the stage for follow-up news reports that put Trump in a shadow of suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=326\">Columnist has \u2018no sympathy\u2019 for the \u2018terrible\u2019 choice Republicans left themselves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But critics were already lining up to derail his suit. Zeteo reports the judge overseeing Trump\u2019s case against the IRS \u201chad expressed concern that the parties \u2013 Trump and his administration \u2013 might not be \u2018sufficiently adverse\u2019 for there to be any actual case or controversy, since Trump \u2018is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction.\u2019 But before the judge could rule on that question, the Trump DOJ quickly announced a settlement, which ended the case but paved the way for this new contentious fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd while Trump\u2019s administration has claimed the president won\u2019t personally benefit from the settlement, the deal came with a special late addendum, signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, to wipe out any audits and investigations Trump and his business empire could be facing in relation to his tax returns,\u201d reports Zeteo. \u201cThat\u2019s convenient, since the Trump Organization reportedly could have owed $100 million, depending on the outcome of a long-running dispute with the IRS, which believed Trump had tried to write off the same losses twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House blasted Zeteo\u2019s report in a response to the organization&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPer usual the liberal hacks at Zeteo have no idea what they\u2019re talking about, nor do their so-called sources,\u201d an unnamed White House spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=324\">Americans fear civil war \u2014and John Roberts is making it happen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump insists he was not involved with an IRS settlement that creates an unsupervised $1.8 billion fund that potentially hands out millions of dollars to people who attempted to overthrow the 2020 U.S. election. 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