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BREAKING: The $1.776 Billion Trump Slush Fund Is Dead
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- Jun 1, 2026
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Summary
Donald Trump just killed his own slush fund. Minutes before we came on air — a senior administration official told Axios the President’s $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is, in their words, “dead for now.” Trump built that fund out of a lawsuit he filed against his own IRS, then aimed it at the people he calls victims of lawfare — a pot of taxpayer money critics said could cut checks to January 6 convicts. Judge Leonie Brinkema froze it Friday. Both parties turned on it over the weekend. And rather than defend it in open court on June 12, Trump pulled it himself. Here’s why that matters to you: it was your money — $1.776 billion of it — and he just walked away from it. Trump doesn’t walk away unless the fight is already lost. What’s next: the June 12 hearing is still on the calendar. A dropped plan is not a dismissed case. Watch that date. That was supposed to be number four tonight. It’s now the day’s biggest retreat. Here’s the rest of the countdown. 5️⃣ THE TAPE THAT NAMES MELANIA The number five story on the countdown today: a voicemail surfaced this weekend that drags the First Lady back into the Epstein story. Amanda Ungaro — the model who flew Epstein’s plane out of Paris as a teenager, then spent two decades with the man who introduced Donald to Melania, Paolo Zampolli — released a recording she left for Zampolli. On it, Ungaro alleges Melania worked as an escort tied to Epstein’s circle, and that Zampolli brokered the silence that buried it. We tell you what she says, not that it’s true. But Melania answered a rumor with an unscheduled White House denial back in April — and now there’s a tape, in the voice of someone who says she was there. 4️⃣ THE FUND HE COULDN’T DEFEND Number four is the story that broke at the top — so we’ll keep it short here: Trump’s…