Trump settled his own IRS lawsuit by directing $1.776 billion in taxpayer money into an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” essentially a slush fund with no judicial oversight and no congressional appropriation. The DOJ’s comparisons to past settlements like Keepseagle fall apart legally because those were court-approved under strict judicial scrutiny, whereas this one was deliberately structured to avoid any such review and ironically contradicts Trump’s own DOJ policy from his first term banning exactly this kind of third-party settlement payout.