Is Trump now bankrolling a MAGA paramilitary?
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump announced a $1.776bn new scheme this week labelled an 'anti-weaponisation fund' to compensate citizens who've been mistreated by the US justice system. Who could the President have in mind as in need of compensation? How about the January 6th rioters? Well they are stepping forward in their droves to state their intentions to claim millions from the IRS - and Trump seems to be cheering them on. Critics say he's using the money to keep his own private militia on retainer - are they right?
And why did Trump secure 'forever' immunity for him and his family from tax audits?
Later, in a rare act of rebellion, Republican Congressmen stripped out $1bn worth of funding for Trump's ballroom from a Bill going through the legislature that was supposed to be about immigration enforcement funding. Trump has doubled down on the ambitions for the ballroom - talking about a drone port on the roof and a military base. But will the GOP get increasingly jittery about the exorbitant costs and the gaudy nature of his White House redevelopment when there's an affordability crisis weighing on the minds of voters?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | And how long has he been inside for? |
| 0:14.7 | Not even sure how long he's been inside for. |
| 0:18.0 | He's a brother of ours in another chapter, so we're picking him up. |
| 0:21.3 | These were people who were right at the coal face of that revolution. And they were injuring |
| 0:28.6 | police officers, which is why you get people now in the Democrats critics who say, this is |
| 0:34.8 | essentially a slush fund for cop killers. |
| 0:38.3 | This is the stuff of tin pot dictatorships where the president gives himself a new arm and plated Rolls Royce, |
| 0:46.3 | a new uniform is for his personal guard, while everyone else is just left by the roadside. |
| 0:52.3 | The Justice Department has this new fund that was announced today, $1.7 billion. |
| 0:59.0 | Why should taxpayers pay for the January? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, it's been very well received, I have to tell you. |
| 1:06.0 | I know very little about it. |
| 1:07.0 | I wasn't involved in the whole creation of it and the negotiation. |
| 1:13.1 | But this is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. |
| 1:19.1 | They've been weaponized. They've been in some cases imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that |
| 1:24.8 | they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been destroyed. |
| 1:28.2 | And they turn out to be right. |
| 1:30.2 | Trump calls this a compensation fund for those who were victims of a weaponized justice department. |
| 1:37.2 | The Democrats call this a slush fund for cop killers. |
| 1:42.2 | Is this the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century? |
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