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J6 Police Officers Sue To Block Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

NewsHound Ellen — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:25:44 +0000

Now that Donald Trump-corruption partner Todd Blanche has established President Felon’s nearly $1.8 billion “IRS settlement” slush fund, and quietly added a lifetime “cheat on your taxes permit” for him and his family, two of the Washington D.C. police officers who defended the Capitol from the Trump-led insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, have sued to block it.

The scathing lawsuit has been filed in federal court by Harry Dunn, formerly a U.S. Capitol Police officer, and Daniel Hodges, a current officer of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.

The suit accuses Trump, Blanche, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of violating the constitutional prohibition against federal funds being spent to pay for insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. The police officers also allege that the slush fund is illegal. The complaint accuses the Trump-corruption trio of trying to use $2 billion not “in the interest of the United States” but as “a misappropriation of taxpayer funds orchestrated by the President to reward his allies and the rioters who committed violence in his name.”

'What Is Going On?' How JD Vance's Shamrock Socks Got Under Trump's Skin

David Edwards — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:53:46 +0000

Vice President JD Vance has a fashion confession — and it involves a pair of shamrock socks, the Irish prime minister, and a very unamused Donald Trump.

Speaking in Kansas City on Monday, Vance regaled the crowd with a cautionary tale about dressing for the boss after complimenting Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on his blazer.

"If you wore that blazer into the Oval Office, the President of the United States would take special note of you," Vance said. "I will tell you that the President, he will note if you're wearing anything other than a solid navy blue jacket."

Then came the story.

Last St. Patrick's Day, Vance hosted Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin at the Naval Observatory before heading to the Oval Office for a meeting in front of roughly 100 TV cameras. The vice president decided to mark the occasion with a festive flourish.

"I decided to wear my shamrock socks to welcome the Irish Prime Minister," Vance recalled. "We're sitting down in front of God, and everybody, and probably 100 TV cameras on a live press conference, and the President starts his remarks, and then he looks over and says, 'What is going on with those socks?'"

The lesson, Vance told the Kansas City crowd: "Dress conservatively around the President of the United States."

It's far from the first time Trump's sartorial preferences have made headlines — and he's been more than willing to enforce them, on allies and adversaries alike.

The Florsheim crusade

Addled Brain Trump: If Jesus Christ Counted The Votes In California, I Would've Won

John Amato — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:30:01 +0000

Speaking about reality star Spencer Pratt's run for LA Mayor, Trump claimed that if Jesus Christ counted the votes in California, he would win the state every time.

This man is deluded.

A prerequisite for any Trump official, MAGA cultist, congressional candidate, or anyone seeking his endorsement is that they must never admit that Trump lost the 2020 election. To gain extra credit, he backs up his insane claims that mail-in ballots are corrupt and that voter fraud against republicans is real.

California has been a solid blue state since 1992, and any presidential candidate who runs there will lose. Trump is the worst of the worst, and that's why he attacks the great state of California every chance he gets.

Now, he's bringing in Jesus.

TRUMP: In California.

You have all the mail-in ballots, everything else. It's very hard to win because the elections are very dishonest.

If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California because I do great with Hispanics.

But it's a rigged vote.

They sent out 38 million votes. Nobody knows where they're going.

Of course, the Democrats do, I guess.

But disproportionately, Democrats get many more votes.

Some get eight votes.

They get eight cards.

And Republicans have to call in, where's my card?

It's a rigged system.

One of the most, not the worst, I'll give you a list.

Maybe I'll do my list.
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MAGA Rep Loses His Cool And Accuses Rebel Republican Of 'Stumping With Nazis'

David Edwards — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:08:32 +0000

A Florida congressman went on Real America's Voice on Monday and unleashed a kitchen-sink attack on fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — the latest GOP lawmaker to fall in line behind President Donald Trump's all-out campaign to oust the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian in Tuesday's primary.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), appearing with host Eric Bolling, hurled allegations ranging from ties to Iran to sexual misconduct involving an ex-girlfriend — and didn't stop there.

"The fact that Massie is stumping over the past few days with open Nazis — these are not neo-Nazis, these are not Nazi-adjacent people — he's actually campaigning with Nazi podcasters, a guy who wore a swastika on a necklace around his neck," Fine said. "I don't think Republicans are going to go for that."

Hey Energy Sec Chris Wright, Nobody Cares About Gas Prices Four Years Ago

John Amato — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:20:13 +0000

Energy Sec. Chris Wright tried to claim that multiple variables were responsible for the rising price of gasoline. Still, the only variable responsible for the skyrocketing costs is Donald Trump's attack on Iran.

Wright joined Martha MacCallum on Fox News, and she wanted the Energy Secretary to give her viewers some assurance that the Trump administration is doing something to lower costs and if they will be effective.

Wright is a master at word salad nonsense, along the lines of egg-headed Kevin Hassett.

MACCALLUM: So you changed the blend a little bit, you increased production in coordination with other countries in order to try to keep prices down.

Is tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve an option, or is that off the table to try to give people a little bit of relief while this plays out?

WRIGHT: No, absolutely.

We did tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and we are releasing oil today.

That's what I was saying, with 30 other nations, we are releasing reserves from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve and from 30 other nations around the world.

But unlike the Biden administration that did it for political purposes, they sold the oil and permanently reduced the oil stored in the SPR, or trading barrels, or trading barrels.
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Sean Hannity Lauds 'Patriotic' $1.76 Billion Slush Fund

Heather — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:56:25 +0000

Trump bootlicker Sean Hannity wants you to believe Trump and his cronies stealing $1.76 billion of our tax dollars is somehow "patriotic."

Here's Hannity from this Tuesday's show on Fox, giving the corruption a passing mention between segments, bashing Democrats for comparing Trump to Hitler, and talking to Ted Cruz via Media Matters:

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): President Trump has settled his $10 billion lawsuit with the IRS after suing over the illegal disclosure of not only his tax records, his entire family, every company owned by the Trump organization by a rogue IRS contractor who broke the law in doing so.

And as part of the agreement to end this case, the DOJ rightly agreed to set aside the patriotic amount of $1.76 billion to settle other claims like this.

In a statement tonight, the Trump Organization tells us that the settlement help provide accountability for the illegal leak of the tax information of President Trump, his sons, and over 500 Trump organization entities, leaks that resulted in criminal charges, prison sentences.
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Jeff Bezos Would Like Trump To Kes OutFull 2026 Panic Mode:'Brutal's Been A Very Good Boy' Parliamentarian

Conover Kennard — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:05:27 +0000

Donald J. Trump is very upset that the Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, still has her job. Apparently, the real scandal here isn't policy, it's that she was appointed during the Obama era and is, shockingly, a woman. Trump has been throwing fits over MacDonough having the sheer audacity to do her job, and he wants his fancy pants ballroom, damnit!

He warns that if Republicans don't eliminate the filibuster and pass the "SAVE AMERICA ACT" immediately, Democrats, or as he calls them, "Dumocrats," will add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, pack the Supreme Court with 21 justices, and presumably steal Christmas. He wraps it up by threatening Republican legislators with unemployment, signing off with the humble and understated "President DONALD J. TRUMP" — just in case you forgot who was yelling at you.

The word "Dumocrats" appears seven times, which is not surprising for this 5-year-old president, stuck in a septuagenarian cankled body.

"Shockingly, Republicans have kept the very important position of “Parliamentarian” in the hands of a woman, Elizabeth MacDonough, who was appointed, long ago, by Barack Hussein Obama and a vicious Lunatic known as Senator Harry Reid, who ran the Senate for the Dumocrats with an “iron fist,"' he writes.

Jeff Bezos Would Like Trump To Kes OutFull 2026 Panic Mode:'Brutal's Been A Very Good Boy' Parliamentarian

Conover Kennard — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:34:34 +0000

Jeff Bezos, one of the world's richest men and noted owner of the newspaper that once fancied itself a check on power, has some important thoughts he'd like to share: Donald Trump is actually doing great and really maturing. Lots of good ideas. You have to give him credit. Bezos would like you to know that he's thought through this very carefully, and it has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Pinky swear!

Bezos appeared on CNBC’s 'Squawk Box' where he performed public fellatio on Donald Trump's lil' mushroom. The billionaire class has no idea of what most of us are going through with Trump at the helm, or they do, and they just don't give a fuck. As for the public fellatio, that's an odd thing for a newly married man to do for the president, so don't tell his wife, though she's probably getting more work done on whatever is left of her face.

"When I last interviewed you, it was about two years ago, President Trump had just won, he was not the president yet, and I had asked you what you thought of him at the time," co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin said. "And you said that you thought that he had mellowed, that he was calmer. And I'm curious now, here we are, two years later, we've had lots of wars and tariffs and all sorts of things that have happened since then. What do you think?"

Felons Endorsing Alleged Felons: Trump Endorses Paxton

Red Painter — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:09:25 +0000

One of our long national nightmares are finally over - Donald Trump decided whom to endorse in the Texas Senate race. The rose goes to ---- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton!

As a former accused felon - and the accusations are many - it makes sense that Trump feels a connection to Paxton.

This also means that Trump is going against current Texas Senator John Cornyn, who has been a pretty staunch Trump ally for many many years. But, as we all know, loyalty goes one way with Trump, so it should surprise no one that he absolutely shivved Cornyn in the back.

In a rambling, stupidly long post on (non)Truth Social, Trump said: “Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate."

About Cornyn, Trump said: “John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough.” Translation: Cornyn did not bend the knee every time the King demanded it.

The runoff election will be held next Tuesday, May 26th. The winner of the GOP nomination will take on Democrat James Talarico in the November midterms. Although a pretty solidly red state, Talarico has gotten support from independents and even some Republicans. This could end up being a closer race than expected, especially if Paxton ends up winning the GOP nomination, as he is a very polarizing figure in Texas politics.

Van Hollen To Todd Blanche: You're Acting Like The President's Personal Attorney

John Amato — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:54:48 +0000

In a long contentious cross-examination Sen. Van Hollen would not let acting attorney general Todd Blanche lie, obfuscate and deny his previous answers regarding the anti-weaponization fund slush fund as well as Blanche's role within it.

The Senate is trying to put actual adults in charge of the slush fund so that payouts will not go to Trump, his family friends, as well as financing his personal militia.

Blanche refused to believe during the hearing (We know he's lying) criminals already convicted for other crimes after being part of the January 6 insurrection, were counting on getting these funds before the fund was created.

How Exactly Did The Trump Slush Fund Come Into Being, Again?

Tengrain — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:31 +0000

Tiger Beat On the Potomac afternoon email thingie tells us:

WEAPONIZATION WATCH: DOJ officially announced it’s creating a $1.776 (get it?) billion fund to compensate Trump allies who claim they were victims of government “weaponization” after he moved to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, per POLITICO’s Josh Gerstein and Danny Nguyen. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is part of the settlement over Trump’s leaked tax returns by government contractor Charles Littlejohn. Democrats pounced on it as a corrupt “slush fund.” The legal gambit was “an apparent effort to skirt oversight by the judge in the case,” NYT’s Andrew Duehren and colleagues write, as Trump “essentially freed his hand to reach a deal with administration officials without any judicial oversight.”

…and the Journos at NOTUS add this little detail:

Disclaimer: “Once the funds are deposited into the Designated Account, the United States has no liability whatsoever for the protection or safeguarding of those funds, regardless of … fraud or misuse.”

License to steal, baby. That’s quite a eff’ing disclaimer.

Sean Duffy Moving At The Speed Of Dumb

Chris capper Liebenthal — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:30:25 +0000

Trans Secretary and reality TV star Sean Dummy, er, Duffy, has been catching a lot of flak over taking seven months to film a reality TV show of him and his family taking a road trip, all while on the taxpayer dime. So, in a lame effort to do some damage control, he produced another idiotic video to show people just "how hard he works."

The highlights of the video are mostly bashing his predecessor, Pete Buttigieg; bragging about his racist policies; and hiring a ton of air traffic controllers to make up for a fraction of the number of ATCs he had fired. For a reality TV show, he doesn't have a lot to do with reality, does he?

Duffy's tenure is, in reality, really, really bad.

Some of the most notable "accomplishments" Duffy committed at the Speed of Dumb were firing thousands of FAA workers based solely on the color of their skin, their gender, their sexual orientation, and their ability status.

This resulted in a shortage of ATCs, which in turn, caused the first collision involving an airliner in over 16 years. And he did that in his first days on the job! Now, that's fast!

Primary Results: Massie Loses And More

Karoli Kuns — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:13:19 +0000

Let's just start by saying that it isn't so much that Trump won in Kentucky as it is that AIPAC and Miriam Adelson won there. They pumped millions into Thomas Massie's race in order to install a friendly warmonger type. It wasn't Trump. It was their millions buying an Iran-war friendly type there. Don't be fooled by all the hype.

In other Kentucky results, Andy Barr won the Republican nomination to compete for Mitch McConnell's seat. On the Democratic side, Charles Booker defeated Amy McGrath to face Barr in the general election.

Moving to Alabama, Doug Jones won the Democratic primary for Governor, where he will face off with Florida resident Tommy Tuberville.

In Pennsylvania, three Democrats endorsed by Josh Shapiro won their primaries and will advance to the general.

Trump’s DOJ Just Handed Him A ‘Cheat On Your Taxes Forever’ Permit

NewsHound Ellen — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:13:04 +0000

As if the $1.776 billion slush fund was not a big enough smash and grab of taxpayer dollars by the Trump Department of Justice to Donald Trump, it turns out that Trump Puppet and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche all but asked Trump and his family to cheat on their taxes from now until forever.

Not surprisingly, Blanche “quietly added” and signed the provision, according to The Guardian. It reported that the addendum “says the government is ‘forever barred’ and ‘precluded’ from examining the tax returns of Trump, his family, company and ‘related companies.”

Trump’s Cheating Permit appears to be retroactive. “The agreement applies to anything filed before the agreement was reached,” according to The Guardian. Meaning before the corrupt “settlement” of Trump’s corrupt lawsuit against the IRS.

What kind of attorney general does such a thing? Especially since Blanche, who served as Trump’s criminal attorney before being rewarded with a hundred grand of taxpayer money at the DOJ, surely knows just how big a crook Felon Donald Trump is. I can't begin to know what went through Blanche's mind to justify this colossal level of corruption on top of another colossal level of corruption. One thing is certain, though: It had nothing to do with the public good.

Mike’s Blog Roundup

Steve in Manhattan — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:02:01 +0000

Darwinfish² - it’s more than a naked emperor;

Diane Ravitch’s Blog - sordid details of Trump’s $1.776B slush fund;

emptywheel - Blanche lied to Van Hollen about not reading the WaPo;

Left Jabs - gerrymanders, dummymanders, and why panic is uncalled for;

No More Mr. Nice Blog - how bad is Trump’s health?

Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with ‘for MBRU' in the subject line). Steve in Manhattan is on Bluesky for his sins. Also, drop by and give Roy some get-well wishes. It’s his knee you see.

"Go F*k Yourselves, Honestly." I Have Thoughts On Some Dems

Cliff Schecter — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:01 +0000

I finally had enough yesterday and did an impromptu Substack rant--I didn't hold back. Last week too many Dems undermined our progress in moving our party to one that fights. Some didn't get the memo. From my transcript:

Tina Peters, part of the coup effort in Colorado, was convicted on state charges. So President Smelly Pants couldn’t grant clemency. So what do we get from Jared Polis, Democratic governor? His judgment's more important than a jury of her peers who found her guilty. And the Mesa County DA, a Republican who convicted her, and is horrified by Polis' actions. Head of the CO County Clerks Association, Republican, in favor of her in jail. The Clemency Board? Jared knows more than them. They objected to letting an unrepentant seditionist out of prison early.

A Red Fox Caught Red-handed With The Goods

John Amato — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000

From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police:

On May 11 around dinner time, Alberta RCMP in #CrowsnestPass received a report of a theft involving BBQ goods.

Officers attended the area in search of a suspect described as having red hair, being short in stature, and wearing a thick coat. After a brief investigation, the suspect was located attempting to conceal the evidence nearby.

The suspect was released without conditions – and a full belly!

Open thread.

Wisconsin Republican Flips, Then Flops, On Iran War, Gas Prices

Chris capper Liebenthal — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:08:35 +0000

Rep Tom Tiffany, who is running to be the governor of Wisconsin, was still stinging from being so woefully wrong about gas prices being the lowest in years, when he went on a podcast and was asked about Trump's Iran War and subsequent soaring gas prices.

Judging by the way he couched his answer, Tiffany must be getting tired of hearing about gas prices already. He phrased his answer by saying that some people on the street were concerned about the uncertainty caused by the war and the subsequent high prices at the pump. Tiffany went on to say, "That's why I say wrap it up, let's get back home, take care of business at home, and let's get those gas prices back down."

If only he meant what he said and said what he meant.

Shortly after making those comments, Tiffany voted against a resolution that would have called for Trump to remove US armed forces and end hostilities with Iran.

And just in case you didn't think that Tiffany was a big enough asshole already, check out what he said about his flip-flop:

Tiffany's spokeswoman sent a statement from Tiffany on May 18 when asked by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for context behind his vote.
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Coons Humiliates Todd Blanche On Live Television

John Amato — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:08:19 +0000

During the Senate subcommittee on the Justice Department’s 2027 budget, Sen. Chris Coons was able to humiliate Trump and his lapdog, Todd Blanche, in such a clever way that the acting AG was unaware what had happened.

Every competent person in this country has heavily criticized Trump's newly minted "anti-weaponization” fund. The only people exhilarated by this and the weaponization of the $1.8 billion slush fund are the January 6th insurrectionists who were arrested and those who were found guilty and later pardoned by Trump.

Acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche is an unflinching trump ass-kisser extraordinaire, and it came back to bite said ass-kisser in the ass.

Todd Blanche "DuBois" denied being involved in setting up the fund. "I mean, I, if I can correct that, please, the president did not direct me to do anything," he said. Trump didn't have to demand he do it, knowing full well Blanche would do it for him.

Coons was not deterred.

COONS: Has it ever happened that a sitting president sued his own government for $10 billion and then directed the settlement of the case and the establishment of a payout fund?

BLANCHE: Not that I'm aware of, but there's a lot of things that president Trump's the first of -- no president had been indicted. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 times either, either

COONS: Correct. No president's been indicted.
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Trump Calls High Gas Prices ‘Peanuts’ That ‘I Don’t Even Think About’

NewsHound Ellen — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:24:20 +0000

Donald Trump does not seem grateful to America for handing over nearly $2 billion of taxpayers dollars for his personal slush fund, created from his corrupt lawsuit against the IRS.

If anything, Billionaire Trump sounded contemptuous of those of us literally paying the prices for his tariffs and his unnecessary war with Iran.

While he was boasting to reporters about his $1 billion golden ballroom, also at taxpayer expense, Trump said about skyrocketing gas prices that threaten to tank the economy, “This is peanuts!”

Sure, he took a brief moment to pretend to care about Americans struggling with Trumpflation. “I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while,” Trump said. Then the guy who promised he’d “end inflation on Day One,” only to cause it to soar, claimed high gas prices “won’t be much longer.”

Trump Goes Full Captain Queeg On His Ballroom

John Amato — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:39:41 +0000

While the country suffers with high inflation, skyrocketing energy fuel costs caused by Trump's sneak attack on Iran, Trump has more important things to worry about, like getting the government to fund the cost of this ridiculous construction project and trying to bully the courts to approve it without the approval of Congress.

Instead of dealing with the "affordability" crisis he has created, Trump is acting more and more like Humphrey Bogart's insane and paranoid Capt. Queeg from The Caine Mutiny and instead of being obsessed with strawberries, it's the ballroom.

Forget about the price at the gas pump; Trump gave a tour to the media about the ongoing work being done to construct his new ballroom.

Priorities, people!

TRUMP: Look at this section, this is the different façade. So this is a Greek, more or less; it comes out of Greece.

This is the ultimate façade for Greece. This faces the Treasury Building.

This faces, this is a different façade, that's Rome, and that faces the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, etc.

So you have two façades, primarily you have two entrances, you have here, you have here, but the primary entrance is through the White House, directly through the White House.

And it's really something, I think you can see the complexity.

Holding up his whiteboard showing plans for how the ballroom will look after completion is as cringeworthy as it gets.

DOJ Files Wrong Document In The Wrong Case In The Wrong State

Chris capper Liebenthal — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:57:48 +0000

Trump's Department of Justice has a long history of mishandling cases left and right. But some of their screw-ups are more notable than others.

Law & Crime recently reported on one of their bigger doozies.

Per the report, the DOJ is suing the State of New Hampshire over voting records because of The Big Lie. They filed a supporting document for their arguments when they realized that they had submitted the wrong document to the court. So Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon and her underlings filed a motion to withdraw the incorrect form and then immediately filed the correct form.

No biggie, right? Probably just a paper got put in the wrong stack or something simple like that. Well, not quite.

The misfiled paper was for another fraudulent voter fraud case. However, it wasn't in New Hampshire, where they filed it. The paper was meant for a case in Minnesota. Wrong case is one thing, but missing a state by 1,500 miles is quite another. I don't think any other administration could screw up that badly, even if they tried.

Don't you feel better knowing these twits are on the job? Only the best people, like hell!

Maryland Sparks Trump Rant By Holding Fair Elections

Karoli Kuns — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:28:42 +0000

On Monday, Donald Trump launched a rant on his Truth Social account intended to accuse Wes Moore of sending out duplicate ballots so people could vote twice.

Credit: Screenshot

"In Maryland, they sent out 500,000 Illegal Mail In Ballots, and they got caught! So now, they're going to send out 500,000 more Mail In Ballots, but nobody knows what's happening with the first 500,000 they sent," he wrote. "In addition, many of these Ballots went to Democrats, so any Republican running in Maryland doesn't have a chance!"

How terrible!!! You would think, from this opening salvo, that Wes Moore intentionally tried to bar Republicans from voting. And there's more.

"This was done by the Corrupt Governor of the State, Wes Moore. He allowed this to happen in order to make sure that Democrats win. It never made sense to me that Maryland was considered an automatic Democrat State, but now I see why. I'm sure this has gone on for years. I'm going to ask the Attorney General of the United States, and the DOJ, to bring an immediate investigation into this situation. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Trump’s Treasury Top Lawyer Quits Hours After $1.776B Slush Fund Launch

Conover Kennard — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:48:06 +0000

The Treasury Department's chief legal officer stepped down on Monday, only hours after the Trump administration unveiled a $1.776 billion fund intended to reimburse individuals who say the previous administration unjustly targeted them. Brian Morrissey, who had also served in Trump's first term, left the general counsel position just seven months after being confirmed by the Senate, The New York Times reported.

Morrissey's exit occurred on the same day the Justice Department officially launched the fund, which will draw from an existing pool of money — one that can be used to pay out settlements without requiring congressional sign-off — to compensate individuals who claim that politically driven investigations or prosecutions targeted them. This grifty move has been rightfully described as a slush fund. Among those who can claim to have been targeted by the Biden administration are the individuals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Times reports that Morrissey did not respond to requests for comment. A Treasury spokesman said, “Mr. Morrissey has served the United States Treasury with both honor and integrity. We wish him all the best in his next endeavors.” Morrissey said in his resignation letter that he was grateful to have worked for Mr. Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, two people familiar with the letter told the outlet.

Jim Cramer Glitches Out Over Trump Trading Intel Stock

John Amato — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:52:26 +0000

While discussing Intel's growth, CNBC's Jim Cramer became tongue-tied and grunted some inaudible responses after his co-host brought up the fact that Trump was trading Intel stocks while in office.

In early 2025, the Trump administration reached a deal with Intel to acquire roughly 9.9% ownership in the company. It was not greeted enthusiastically by both political parties.

Cramer praised CEO Lip-Bu Tan for resurrecting its profits.

Then this happened when Cramer mentioned Trump.

CRAMER: And then the president, the US government got in. He could sell it....

QUINTANILLA: And according to the filings, the president's been trading some Intel in the quarter.

This caused Cramer's brain to malfunction and he responded with gibberish. Co-host James Faber jumped in, "Got nothing to say about that?

Cramer continued to grunt and mumble. The one word I understood was, "Yeah."

Carl Quintanilla began imitating him while as David Faber laughed at him.

"Alright, don’t worry, we’re not having technical difficulties here everybody, but we’ve got to go,” Faber said.

"Jim, I'll see you tonight, Mad Money," Quintanilla replied.