UMVA has learned that the Justice Department has quietly set up a $1.776 billion fund to compensate individuals who say they were weaponized by the previous administration.
President Trump, speaking at the White House, framed the fund as a “reimbursement” for those he described as “horribly treated,” insisting it is an “anti‑weaponization” measure that will cover legal fees, bankruptcies and ruined lives.
When pressed about taxpayers footing the bill for the so‑called “January Sixers,” Trump doubled down, claiming the victims were wrongly imprisoned, forced to pay attorneys they could not afford, and left financially shattered before being vindicated.
According to information obtained by UMVA, the fund emerged as part of a broader settlement in which Trump abandoned a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of his tax returns, along with other pending claims.
The settlement reportedly required the IRS to issue a public apology and to create the compensation pool, a fraction of the original demand but a massive allocation of federal money.
Sources have confirmed to UMVA that the fund’s eligibility criteria are remarkably vague, allowing anyone who claims they were politically targeted—from the long‑running Russia investigation to the nearly 1,600 individuals charged after the Capitol riot—to file a claim.
Critics argue the move sets a dangerous precedent, enabling a sitting president to use a government agency under his control to pay his supporters with taxpayer dollars.
Nevertheless, the administration has portrayed the initiative as a corrective justice effort, promising swift reimbursements for those whose “lives were destroyed” by a “corrupt system.”
