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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu May 21, 2026, 11:46 AM 7 hrs ago

First Bonkers Application to Join $1.8B Grift Board Exposed

An eager Republican lawyer swiftly raised his hand to join the exclusive board dispensing taxpayer money as part of President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund.

On Monday, Trump’s Justice Department announced the establishment of the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” to compensate MAGA allies he claims were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration.

The Justice Department said the fund would provide a “systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”

On Wednesday evening, right-wing lawyer Mike Howell contacted acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to declare his candidacy for one of the five vacant and unpaid positions on the board to distribute taxpayer funds.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/first-bonkers-application-join-1-080324574.html

This guy will find a way to get paid. Count on it.

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First Bonkers Application to Join $1.8B Grift Board Exposed (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 7 hrs ago OP
Howell runs the Oversight Project, a conservative group that investigates claims of weaponized lawfare underpants 7 hrs ago #1

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1. Howell runs the Oversight Project, a conservative group that investigates claims of weaponized lawfare
Thu May 21, 2026, 11:55 AM
7 hrs ago

Howell runs the Oversight Project, a conservative group that investigates claims of weaponized lawfare, and is a visiting fellow at the far-right Heritage Foundation. He is also a close ally of U.S Pardon Attorney Ed Martin, who was stripped of his role leading the Justice Department’s “weaponization” working group in February.

Martin advocated for Trump’s pardons of over 1,500 people charged or convicted for their roles in the violent Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Martin initially told sources earlier this year he predicted the Justice Department would dole out around $40 million to people charged, then pardoned, after the riots. The fund announced this week is $1.776 billion.

Howell’s lengthy, fawning letter to Blanche, obtained by CBS, claimed that the “Radical Left used the events of January 6, 2021 and their hatred of President Trump as an immoral justification to enact a sustained campaign of vengeance to trample on the civil rights of their political, ideological, and religious (namely Christian) opponents.”

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