The settlement will create an “anti-weaponisation fund” to compensate people who claim to have been victims of US government lawfare, possibly including those convicted over the January 6 riots, stunning his Democrat opponents.

The fund would pay victims of so-called government weaponization.

Taxpayers will provide roughly $1.8 billion to the president and his allies—including January 6 insurrectionists.

The fund was created as part of a settlement resolving Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his confidential tax records.

The Trump administration on Monday announced the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate political allies who believe they were unfairly prosecuted under the Biden…