Jesse Eisinger

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287 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 29 May

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Search Engine · Why do we have to pay into the new Anti-Weaponization Fund? · 29 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, the fund is purportedly going to go to anyone who is able to show that they were victims of the Biden administration's, you know, quote-unquote weaponization.

Which really just means law enforcement, and they haven't really defined it.

It's going to be a very secretive slush fund that they can dole out essentially at the president's whim.

Yeah, well, they might not be able to because you're not allowed to disclose who government money went to without the consent of the recipient.

So there's going to be all sorts of questions about transparency and process here.

So what happens is they built this $1.7—we're going to round up to $1.8 billion fund—

And that's coming out of an existing amount, a pot that Congress allocated in the 1950s.

And what was the pot?

Yeah, right.

So, what happened was the government occasionally gets sued and there's some wrongs.

And then the government will pay out funds.

And what Congress did was say, look, you know, we're not going to authorize this in each country.

individual case.

So we're going to give the Treasury – this happened in the 50s and 60s – and we're going to give the Treasury a fund where if there's a serious legal process where there's real parties who are adversarial, overseen by a judge, where there's a presentation of evidence and a gathering of facts –

and some determination of real victims, then they'll be able to pay this fund out and Congress doesn't have to authorize it in each individual case.

Right.

I mean, this is his innovation and you kind of have to hand it to him because they're groundbreaking in their imagination and brazenness about how to use the levers of presidential power.

And one of them is to, you know, locate this fund and understand its capacity and then transfer the money for this kind of purpose, which is a really corrupt

Because it was never used to benefit political patrons or allies of the president.

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