{"id":793,"date":"2026-05-27T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:05:04","slug":"how-donald-trump-is-insulating-himself-from-future-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"How Donald Trump is insulating himself from future investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s deal creating an &#8220;anti-weaponization fund&#8221; could shield him from probes beyond tax matters and incentivize people to defy congressional investigations.<\/li>\n<li>Trump is firing inspectors general and challenging post-Watergate laws that require document preservation and congressional oversight.<\/li>\n<li>Legal scholars say Trump is dismantling post-Watergate oversight mechanisms as the midterm elections approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The deal that President Donald Trump reached with his own administration to set-up an \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d for his allies is the latest example of how his second stint in the White House has focused on undermining checks on presidential power and insulating himself from future investigations.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=785\">Iran war spending drains US military budgets, triggering cancelled trainings, delayed maintenance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The agreement highlights the new hurdles Trump is erecting that that could stymie probes by congressional Democrats, successor administrations and even authorities outside the federal government.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            On several fronts, Trump is dismantling post-Watergate transparency mandates, attacking Congress\u2019 power of the purse, rewarding loyalists accused of committing crimes that support his causes, and assaulting independent agencies and executive branch watchdogs.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump has done so by capitalizing on and accelerating an expansion of presidential power embraced by the conservative Supreme Court, and by blowing through norms and political gravity that reined in other presidents, former government attorneys and constitutional scholars told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When Congress in the 1970s passed constraints on the presidency in response to the scandals of the Richard Nixon administration, courts at the time backed those laws.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWhat we\u2019ve now seen is this dramatic pendulum swing in favor of just more executive power that\u2019s consolidated within the president himself, that\u2019s no longer dispersed,\u201d said University of Southern California Gould School of Law Professor Adam Zimmerman. \u201cWe also see someone who\u2019s willing to use that power to push that power to the limit.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fstmarshall.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-790\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/95664a28ad20dea78dd4033106617a31-768x432.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/95664a28ad20dea78dd4033106617a31-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/95664a28ad20dea78dd4033106617a31-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/95664a28ad20dea78dd4033106617a31.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Video Ad Feedback<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Could Trump&#8217;s foes benefit from &#8220;anti-weaponization&#8221; fund?\n                <\/div>\n<div>\n<span>\n                                        \n        \n            \n            \n        3:22\n                            <\/span>\n<span> \u2022 Source:\n                \n                    CNN\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fstmarshall.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-791\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/788daafd1c516a292b26830803c3c5af.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/788daafd1c516a292b26830803c3c5af.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/788daafd1c516a292b26830803c3c5af-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Could Trump&#8217;s foes benefit from &#8220;anti-weaponization&#8221; fund?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>        \n        \n            \n            \n        3:22\n         \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The latest gambit \u2013 a controversial agreement arising from a legally dubious lawsuit Trump brought against the IRS \u2013 is more sweeping in its protections for the president than initially reported. Its language could shield Trump from more than just tax-related probes. And the broad criteria for whom could benefit from the nearly $1.8 billion fund could incentivize individuals to not comply with congressional investigations into the president.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe announcement of this fund really crystallizes so many trends we\u2019ve seen in this term, which is the president using, corruptly using, the power of the government to punish his enemies and reward his friends, including friends who would break the law on his behalf,\u201d said Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, an organization of conservatives who oppose Trump.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A Justice Department spokesperson defended the fund in a statement that said it \u201cwas created to specifically hear and redress claims of lawfare and seek accountability for any American who was unfairly targeted for their beliefs.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThose who are upset about the Anti-Weaponization Fund should remind themselves that we are in this position because the President\u2019s tax returns were illegally leaked, and previous administrations used their law enforcement agencies to relentlessly persecute their political adversaries,\u201d the spokesperson said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Immunity that extends beyond tax audits\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The tax amnesty the new deal extends to the president, his business and his family was made public with an addendum quietly published the day after the original agreement was announced. In defending it, DOJ officials have described the arrangement as the IRS letting go of past audits of the president in exchange for a dismissal of the $10 billion case Trump brought against the federal government for improper disclosure of his tax returns.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cEvery single settlement, both sides give away something,\u201d acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who signed the deal and who was Trump\u2019s personal lawyer during the Biden-era criminal prosecutions against him, told CNN last week.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The language applies not just to potential claims against Trump brought by IRS or Treasury, but by any agency, though the Justice Department clarified to CNN that the focus is on civil matters, rather than criminal. The Department has also stressed that the agreement covers audits or claims related to Trump conduct that predates the May 19 agreement.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the deal\u2019s language forbids not just tax-related reviews, but any government claims related to Trump pre-settlement conduct that fits under the agreement\u2019s conception of \u201clawfare\u201d or \u201cweaponization.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Those terms have no legal meaning, but another part of the agreement defines those concepts in extremely broad terms, meaning the deal seeks to forbid all sorts of federal enforcement actions or reviews that could be aimed at past conduct by Trump, his family or his businesses.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Carrots and sticks for participation in probes into Trump\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Already, Trump and his Justice Department have punished those who facilitated investigations into his conduct, while wiping away the prosecutions of his supporters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHe\u2019s sending the signal louder every day, that if you commit a crime on his behalf, you have nothing to worry about. In fact, you\u2019ll be celebrated, and perhaps rewarded financially,\u201d said Nunziata, who previously served as a lawyer in several Republican Senate offices.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Capitol riot prosecutors and DOJ employees involved in former special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigations were fired. The Justice Department dismissed the contempt-of-Congress case against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, for his defiance of a House January 6 probe subpoena. Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James \u2013 both the faces of high-profile investigations into Trump \u2013 have been targeted with criminal charges.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related vertical video\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"119610_ComeyCurrentFBI VRTC THUMB CLEAN.png\" class=\"wp-image-792\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/db27c5c75681f99f218b2e347b225541.png\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>CNN<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>James Comey says he still speaks to FBI employees<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Trump granted clemency to everyone charged or convicted in the Capitol attack, and now top administration officials are not ruling out those defendants \u2013 including those convicted of assaulting law enforcement \u2013 receiving payouts from the new fund.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=783\">\u2018Slush fund for crooks\u2019: GOP lawmaker faces criticism over \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund, Epstein files and Trump at town hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt\u2019s fair to say that this administration uses a lot of sticks and a lot of carrots,\u201d Zimmerman said, calling the president\u2019s pardon power \u201can extremely large carrot\u201d and the new fund \u201ccarrot cake.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Zimmerman, who worked on the compensation fund for victims of the 9\/11 terrorist attack, pointed to the influence Trump will have over the commission that doles out compensation. The president can fire at will the board\u2019s members, who will be chosen by his attorney general.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt is a completely fair concern that this could be part of a significant set of incentives for people not to potentially participate in future government investigations, or even the legislative hearings that, we might imagine, would take place if the Democrats took the House or the Senate,\u201d Zimmerman said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        New hurdles to future scrutiny\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            When Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he did so with the benefit of a sweeping 2023 presidential immunity precedent from the Supreme Court that wasn\u2019t on the books for his first term. That Supreme Cout case dealt with Trump\u2019s immunity in criminal prosecutions of conduct that could be connected to official presidential acts. But the Justice Department is also now pushing back against the civil lawsuits against the president related to the January 6 assault on the US Capitol.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Meanwhile, DOJ is working on regulations that would sideline investigations by state bar associations into department lawyers for attorney disciplinary proceedings.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When those proceedings were brought against attorneys who worked on Trump\u2019s 2020 election reversal plots, they revealed new details about how the schemes played out. The outside groups that have filed the bar complaints against Trump-aligned attorneys have argued the proceedings will discourage lawyers from breaking ethics rules to help the president. But the administration and its allies, and even some Trump critics, argue that the ethics proceedings amount to an abuse of a disciplinary process.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Justice Department \u2013 defending its proposal to suspend state bar investigations while its own disciplinary proceedings are underway \u2013 argues that because it has its own ethics and professional responsibility team, the agency should have the ability to review its own employees\u2019 conduct first.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Internal checks on the chopping block\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            As the administration has sought to blunt investigations that could touch on the president, it\u2019s barreled through the post-Watergate reforms that created internal checks and oversight mechanisms within the executive branch.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At the beginning of his second term, the president fired several inspectors general, who are tasked by Congress with investigating fraud, waste and abuse within their agencies. Those offices were the source of multiple probes that scrutinized the conduct of the first Trump administration and led to congressional investigations, including the 2019 impeachment proceedings against the president.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Earlier this year, a Justice Department office charged with giving legal advice to the executive branch told the president he was no longer obligated to follow the Presidential Records Act, which requires that White House documents be preserved and ultimately turned over to the National Archives for public use.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Under the DOJ\u2019s theory for the law\u2019s supposed unconstitutionality \u2013 a theory a federal judge has already rejected \u2013 Congress could never pass a statute that would \u201cencroach\u201d on the performance of a president\u2019s executive power. The DOJ\u2019s memo cast doubt on the idea that Congress could have a \u201clegitimate\u201d reason to study the inner-workings of a White House for the purpose of drafting laws.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Recent boosts to presidential power from the Supreme Court\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The administration\u2019s challenge of statutes that serve as a check on the presidency is in step with a shift under the Supreme Court in favor of the so-called \u201cunitary executive\u201d theory of presidential power.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The conservative majority \u2013 three members of which Trump appointed \u2013 has let Trump remove without cause heads of ostensibly independent agencies, trampling over limits placed by Congress. The Supreme Court is now considering a case that could decide on the merits the scope of a president\u2019s firing powers.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Supreme Court\u2019s conservative majority last year also gave the administration the greenlight in an emergency order to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funding \u2013 diminishing another check that Congress has on the presidency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The new anti-weaponization fund fits \u201cwithin a pattern of looking for ways to be able to spend money without Congress, to get greater executive control over federal spending,\u201d said Zachary Price, a constitutional law professor and University of California San Francisco Law School.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Ironically, in its pushback to oversight from the Democratic House during Trump first presidency, the administration argued that courts need not order compliance with congressional subpoenas because lawmakers could use their spending powers to encourage participation in the probes. Now, if Democrats regain the gavel after the midterms, their tools for constraining the president will be weaker than what they had at their disposal with the 2019 House takeover.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt takes a certain amount of honorable conduct for our government to work,\u2019\u201d said Doug Letter, a former longtime DOJ attorney who then served as general counsel for the Democratic-led US House in Trump\u2019s first term.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump\u2019s conduct goes \u201cso far beyond what anybody thought when putting together the Constitution and our system of government,\u201d Letter said. \u201cI am not sure what the real check is, other than impeachment.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=781\">A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed at least 193<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal that President Donald Trump reached with his own administration to set-up an \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d for his allies is the latest example of how his second stint in the White House has focused on undermining checks on presidential power and insulating himself from future investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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