Charlamagne tha God unleashed on President Donald Trump after the president dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that critics are calling out as a slush fund for Trump allies.
“When you see blatant corruption happening in this country at our expense, you’ve got to ring the alarm about it,” the “Breakfast Club” co-host said Tuesday on the radio show during a segment where he labeled the president the “donkey of the day.”
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced it was launching the fund as part of a settlement to resolve Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. The fund is expected to give payouts to Trump allies who claim they were unfairly prosecuted, including Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioters.
Charlamagne, born Lenard McKelvey, said that American taxpayers now have to “sit back and watch Trump and his friends rob us of money that should be used for us.”
“America, I don’t care what your race is, I don’t care what your party is. There is no way on God’s green Earth that we can be OK with this,” he said.
Charlamagne argued that Trump, “who doesn’t even pretend to care” about Americans’ economic struggles, is using billions of dollars in taxpayer money for a “political reimbursement program” instead of using it to “fund essential services at the federal, state, and local levels.”
“Let’s be clear: President Trump is just paying his goons,” he later added. “This is [an] incentive for his goons to do his bidding again if he needs them to.”
“You’re taking money from people struggling to pay rent, buy groceries, and survive inflation, which has surged under the Trump administration, by the way,” Charlamagne said.
“You are taking taxpayer dollars and redirecting [them] to people who are connected to political power. That’s why people get cynical about politics, because the rules always seem different depending on who you are and who you’re aligned with.”
Stressing that Americans “should be outraged” and “be in the street protesting against this,” he continued, “Our taxpayer dollars going to this weaponization fund to compensate his allies should piss you off. Not only is it corrupt; it is a blatant slap in the face to the economic hardships folks are facing.”
Watch Charlamagne tha God’s remarks on the “Breakfast Club” below.
