BREAKING: Trump Just Made The Weaponized Government Pay BIG TIME

President Trump just did something that only Trump would do: he took a lawsuit over his leaked tax returns and turned it into a nearly $1.8 billion fund for Americans who say they were targeted by the Biden-era government machine.

Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS after the Justice Department agreed to create a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who claim they were wrongly targeted by the federal government. The case stemmed from the leak of Trump’s private tax returns, which were handed to the media by a former IRS contractor who was later sentenced to prison.

And here’s the part that has Democrats absolutely foaming at the mouth: Trump himself is reportedly not taking a payout. Instead, the fund is supposed to go toward Americans who believe they were punished, prosecuted, investigated, smeared, or steamrolled by the political justice system.

Naturally, Democrats are calling it a “slush fund,” because apparently the only acceptable slush funds in Washington are the ones that go to climate nonprofits, foreign countries, and universities teaching 19-year-olds that math is colonialism.

But for years, Americans watched the federal government treat conservatives like enemy combatants. Parents at school board meetings were treated like domestic threats. Pro-life activists got the SWAT-team treatment. January 6 defendants were made into political examples. Trump allies were dragged through endless investigations. And the IRS, the DOJ, and the permanent bureaucracy somehow always seemed to aim in the same direction.

So now Trump is saying: fine. You wanted to weaponize the government? Let’s start paying back the people who got hit.

Of course, the same people who shrugged when the government was used against their political enemies are suddenly very concerned about “norms,” “process,” and “abuse of power.” How convenient.

For once, Washington’s favorite game may have consequences. And the people who spent years cheering on lawfare are learning a painful lesson: political targeting is a lot less fun when the bill comes due.