Donald Trump's $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Scandal Explodes!

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tonight, we dive into the growing outrage surrounding reports of a massive $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded pool that could be used to reward Donald Trump’s political allies and inner circle. Now, reports are surfacing that some of that money could potentially be directed toward January 6 defendants and insurrectionists, raising major questions about accountability, political favoritism, and the use of taxpayer dollars. At the same time, new scrutiny is falling on the IRS after reports that claims and investigations involving Trump and his family are being slowed or blocked. The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore: one set of rules for the powerful, another for everyone else. Don is joined by Tom Nichols of The Atlantic and former DOJ Pardon Attorney and Federal Public Defender Liz Oyer to break it all down. This episode is brought to you by Lean. Lean is having a Huge Memorial Day Sale and Lean is 25% off!! Visit https://TAKELEAN.com and enter THANK YOU 25 for 25% OFF. That's promo code THANK YOU 25 at https://TAKELEAN.com This episode is sponsored by SelectQuote. Save more than fifty percent on term life insurance at https://selectquote.com/lemon TODAY to get started. This episode is brought to you by RadioActive Media. Visit RadioActiveMedia.com, or text the word, “PODCAST” to 511511. Start planning for 2026 now to get the lowest rates in Podcast and Radio. RadioActive Media can surpass your current strategies with new and innovative ways that “SOUND” better. Message and Data Rates May Apply. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, everybody.
0:17.0	Straight to business, because there's a lot.
0:20.0	You know, I've been in journalism for over 30 years now.
0:25.0	That's how long I've been around.
0:25.9	I've covered presidents, I have covered wars, I have covered the moments when this country
0:30.3	showed its worst and the moments when this country showed its best.
0:33.2	And I have said on this show, more than once that this is the most corrupt
0:37.3	administration I have ever seen. And you look, I have said on this show more than once that this is the most corrupt administration I've
0:38.4	ever seen and you look I have said it I meant it every single time I said it and then they
0:47.5	do something that makes everything before look like a warm-up.
0:53.9	We have never seen anything like this ever. I mean, in the history
0:56.8	of this republic, never. Not Nixon, not Harding, not Grant, not Ron Contra, not any of it,
1:07.4	not any of it. Because here's the difference between all of them and what is happening
1:12.4	right now. Every corrupt administration in American history at least knew it had to hide.
1:18.5	They knew they had to at least pretend to be, have some sort of values, some sort of moral
1:26.8	or morality. At least they had to pretend
1:29.0	Nixon knew what he was doing what he was doing was wrong he knew it that's why the tapes
1:36.2	were secret that's why there was a cover-up that's why his own party eventually told him hey
1:43.2	it's over, get out.
1:45.9	Nixon had the decency at least to be ashamed of himself.
1:51.7	Have you no shame, sir?
1:52.9	This administration has no shame.
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