One went to prison for the truth: hundreds are about to get paid for insurrection

Charles Littlejohn is serving five years in federal prison for leaking President Trump’s tax returns. The men who beat Capitol Police officers with American flags are about to be paid out of the same Treasury that locked him up.

Same Justice Department, same week. 

That is not commentary: that is the math. One man went to prison for telling the truth about a president’s tax returns. Sixteen hundred rioters are about to be paid for attacking the U.S. Capitol to overturn a national election.

Last Thursday, ABC News reported that Trump’s Justice Department is preparing to drop the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS in January. In exchange, the government is to create a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded fund, to be run by five with no transparency by people Trump picks and whom he can fire. The first checks are expected to go to the nearly 1,600 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. 

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called it “a $1,700,000,000 fraud on the American taxpayer.” On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, he called it a “political slush fund” and “unconstitutional.” He cited Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, which bars the federal government from paying debt incurred in aid of insurrection. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called it “an insane level of corruption, even for Trump.” Two Capitol Police officers who had defended the grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit against the fund’s creation.

This began when Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion. Now, his own appointees are settling with him for $1.7 billion of........

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