The Trump slush fund appears to have been aborted – but the real problem about the ‘settlement’ remains

3rd June 2026 The root cause of this outrage is not addressed by this pruning * The proposal for a ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund seems to have been dumped. The acting Attorney General of the United States said at Congressional meeting yesterday that: “We are not moving forward with the fund.” Nor indeed moving in any direction with the fund. * But the fund was a consequence of a more fundamental abuse of power which is still in place, and until that is hacked out there will be other problems. As set out in previous posts, a contrived and inflated legal case was brought by Trump (and his son and his company) against the United States government, which was then purportedly ‘settled’ between the parties, though without court approval or even recognition. The settlement – that is a contract – was then used as a legal basis to create rights and obligations of an extraordinary nature. To allude to the eminent jurist Meat Loaf, one can do many things with settlement agreements, but one cannot do…