The Justice Department‘s new $1.776 billion fund to compensate victims of lawfare is giving Democrats a fresh opportunity to drag Republicans back into politically fraught debates over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot just months before the midterm elections.
The DOJ announced the fund on Monday as part of its settlement with President Donald Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Jr., and the Trump Organization, after they agreed to drop their $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. They sued the IRS in January after an IRS employee leaked their tax returns in 2019 and 2020.
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