Trump’s slush fund scam has a Tennessee-connected origins story

By: Mark Harmon

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: June 10, 2026

Words: 803

Last Updated: 1 day, 20 hours ago

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It’s easy to get whiplash from the daily revelations and machinations about President Donald Trump’s sham lawsuit against his own Internal Revenue Service, one doomed to failure but the perfect pretext for negotiating effectively with himself to set up a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

Oh, and not so incidentally, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (Trump’s former criminal attorney) slipped in a scheme to ban the IRS from investigating Trump’s past tax oddities — or …

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