Biden's Justice Department spent four years hunting down and prosecuting over 1,600 Americans for January 6.
Now Donald Trump just engineered a $1.7 billion fund that could write every one of them a check.
And Democrats are absolutely losing their minds over what he pulled off.
How Trump's $1.7 Billion IRS Settlement Creates a January 6 Compensation Fund
Back in 2019, a far-left IRS contractor named Charles Littlejohn deliberately got himself hired at the agency for one reason – to steal Donald Trump's private tax records.
He pulled it off.
Littlejohn downloaded years of confidential returns, moved files to hidden personal devices, and handed them to The New York Times and ProPublica right before the 2020 election.
He was eventually caught, convicted, and sentenced to five years in federal prison.
The judge who sentenced him called the leak "an attack on our constitutional democracy."
Donald Trump wasn't done.
In January 2026, he filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department – arguing the agency failed to protect his records and those of over 400,000 other Americans whose data Littlejohn also stole.
The Biden Weaponization Fund Democrats Cannot Stop
ABC News reported this week that Trump is expected to drop that $10 billion lawsuit in exchange for a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded compensation fund – one that pays out anyone who can prove Biden's government came after them.
That means the 1,600 January 6 defendants Biden prosecuted are in line for real money.
Mark McCloskey – the Missouri attorney representing hundreds of those defendants – said he wants to see "everybody get reasonable compensation ranging from small sums to millions of dollars."
Trump gets to remove commission members without cause.
The commission carries no obligation to publicly disclose who gets paid or how much.
And it requires zero new congressional approval – the money flows from the Treasury Department's existing Judgment Fund.
Democrats cannot stop it.
January 6 Defendants Are Finally in Line for Real Money
Over 1,600 Americans were prosecuted – including hundreds whose only offense was trespassing.
These people lost jobs, savings, marriages – some lost all three.
Some sat in pretrial detention for years while their cases dragged on, held in conditions supporters called a political gulag.
Biden's prosecutors pursued them with a ferocity they never applied to left-wing rioters who burned courthouses and attacked federal buildings during the summer of 2020.
Trump pardoned every one of them on his first day back in the Oval Office.
Now he found a mechanism to make it right.
Biden Went After Regular Americans and Lost
Democrats can't stand this moment.
They didn't just go after Trump.
A retired schoolteacher from Ohio drove to Washington because she believed in her country – and came home to a federal indictment.
One veteran walked through an open door, never threw a punch, and spent the next two years watching his savings disappear into legal fees.
There's a grandfather somewhere in this country who pled guilty to trespassing – not because he was guilty, but because he couldn't put his family through a trial – and the mainstream media ran his name through the mud anyway.
Biden's government treated every one of those people like terrorists.
And now Donald Trump handed them a billion-dollar commission with the power to make it right.
That's a sitting President looking at 1,600 Americans the last administration tried to destroy and saying: I've got you.
Democrats are screaming about a "slush fund" because they know exactly what this is – the moment the weaponization stops being a talking point and starts coming with a check.
Biden bet that grinding these people down would break the movement.
He was wrong.
And the $1.7 billion about to flow out of his own Treasury Department is the proof.
Sources:
- Bob Unruh, "Report: Settlement of Trump suit against IRS could include payouts to those targeted by Joe Biden," World Net Daily, May 15, 2026.
- ABC News, "Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies," May 14, 2026.
- "Trump's IRS suit may end with a $1.7 billion compensation fund," Bloomberg via Union-Bulletin, May 16, 2026.
- House Judiciary Committee, "Judiciary Committee Seeks Testimony from Trump Tax Return Leaker," March 17, 2025.
- "DOJ Settles Lawsuit from Trump Ally Flynn for $1.25M," The Daily Record, March 26, 2026.
- "Trump Administration Settles Lawsuit with Ex-Trump Adviser Carter Page," CNN, April 22, 2026.
