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Judge temporarily blocks payouts from Trump's $1.776 billion 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund AP NewsFederal Judge Bars Trump From Immediately Setting Up $1.8 Billion Fund The New York TimesFederal judge halts work on Trump's ‘anti-weaponization fund' CNNRepublicans Shrug at Trump's Outrageous Corruption Yahoo
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The fund was created as part of an agreement to resolve the president's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the past leak of his tax information.
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin became the face of the tax after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a video in front of Griffin's penthouse apartment.
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Tax automation solutions provider Avalara announced Hugo Sarrazin as its new CEO, replacing Scott McFarlane, Avalara's co-founder and original CEO, who will become an advisor to the company.
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Trump said Democratic policies on crime and taxes were leading to an exodus of businesses and taxpayers from New York, as he touted his tax cuts.
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Topic: PoliticsThe new Trump administration has done a dizzying list of extreme actions, insane cabinet appointments, executive orders and much more. The Democrats have been largely powerless to stop them, and do not appear to have even been trying very hard. Christian "reconstructionist" Russel Vought, architect of both Project 2025 and hidden plans, is running OMB, and Some fear a coup is in progress, and while it's not certain, the fear can't be easily dismissed.
What can be done? For Democrats, the time to act was last year, but they failed. Trump controls the White House, the Senate, the House and much of SCOTUS, a level not seen for many decades, though the margin is small. Most people are asking how can they resist, and as always, there is a great deal of outrage and statements of opposition.
There is a radically different strategy, one that will no doubt anger those feeling outrage, for it is frustrating, contains risk, and seems counterintuitive. It may also be the best plan.
It must be understood that Trump's main strategy is to create enemies, and unify his supporters around them. His main enemy is the left, or Democrats, but he has also specifically demonized immigrants, drag queens, trans people, abortion supporters and many others, even including China and allies like Mexico and Canada.
Trump works by pitching these enemies as the bogeyman, but he also enlists those enemies to help him. He is deliberately as provocative as he can be, in order to trigger outrage. If he can make his enemies lash out at his supporters, engender hate for him and
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