{"id":73858,"date":"2026-05-22T03:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/trumps-new-slush-fund-for-his-pals-politics-weekly-america\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:19:22","slug":"trumps-new-slush-fund-for-his-pals-politics-weekly-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/trumps-new-slush-fund-for-his-pals-politics-weekly-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s new \u2018slush fund\u2019 for his pals | Politics Weekly America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@courtsidewithkg\">Kristy Greenberg<\/a> about why critics are calling this fund \u2018corruption on steroids\u2019<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/video\/2026\/may\/22\/trump-anti-weaponisation-slush-fund-for-pals-irs-corruption-politics-weekly-america\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst Kristy Greenberg about &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s new \u2018slush fund\u2019 for his pals | Politics Weekly America\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/trumps-new-slush-fund-for-his-pals-politics-weekly-america\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s new \u2018slush fund\u2019 for his pals | Politics Weekly America\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}