Pam Bondi may have doomed Trump's slush fund: report

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-slush-fund-bondi/

Pam Bondi may have doomed Trump's slush fund: report

Tom Boggioni
May 21, 2026 6:32AM ET

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According to the New York Times, after Bondi was sworn in as attorney general in February 2025, she immediately placed guardrails around settlements "that largely prohibited payments to groups not involved in an underlying lawsuit." Now those same restrictions are threatening to derail the Trump administration's controversial compensation scheme.

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According to the Times' Devlin Barrett, the memo explicitly stated that, except in "limited circumstances," the department should not use settlements "to require payments to nongovernmental, third-party organizations that were neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits."

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[Mister Ed]

1. Oops! I guess Trump may have to keep the $1.8 billion for himself!

Oh well.

[Ray Bruns]

2. That was his intention in the first place.

[WestMichRad]

3. Nah.

They play Calvinball: make up the rules you want as the game proceeds. Nothing stopping them from reversing these Blondi restrictions on settlements, especially when their own sycophants stand to benefit.

It’s so much easier to get your own way when you don’t have to bother with that “rule of law” stuff!

[ToxMarz]

5. Maybe they can't as long as they only have an "acting" attorney general?

dunno how that works.

[TheRickles]

4. They'll just find a way to re-define this situation as involving "limited circumstances".

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass