Now who say’s that crime doesn’t pay?? On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump has pardoned 1,500 of those rioters, wiping their criminal records clean and moving to get them paid. How??
An IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, leaked the tax information of Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Ken Griffin. Charles Littlejon pleaded guilty and was sentenced to federal prison. Donald Trump, along with his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump and the Trump Organization, filed a $10 billion lawsuit that they have now dropped in exchange for some things, like the Justice Department establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that could pay claims from people who allege they were targeted by the Biden administration. Trump also agreed to withdraw two additional administrative claims, including those related to the Mar-a-Lago raid and the Russia investigation.
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people who’d been charged with crimes for rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s possible many of them could now get payback for their prosecution. Mark McCloskey, an attorney who has filed administrative claims for hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters, told HuffPost last week he’d advocated for the administration to set up such a fund to pay his clients.
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