{"id":152312,"date":"2026-06-01T20:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152312"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:49:16","slug":"trumps-us1-8-billion-weaponisation-fund-is-on-hold-sources-sayunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152312","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s US$1.8 billion \u2018weaponisation\u2019 fund is on hold, sources sayUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump\u2019s US$1.8 billion \u2060fund to compensate victims of alleged government \u201cweaponisation\u201d has been put on hold, two sources familiar with the plan said on Monday.<br \/>\nThe fund emerged from a legal settlement between Trump and the \u200cJustice Department to resolve an unprecedented lawsuit in which the president had sued the Internal Revenue Service for US$10 billion over the alleged mishandling of his tax records.<br \/>\nThe US$1.776 billion was meant to pay people who said they had been the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3355614\/trumps-us18-billion-weaponisation-fund-hold-sources-say?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump\u2019s US$1.8 billion \u2060fund to compensate victims of alleged government \u201cweaponisation\u201d has been put on hold, two sources&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}