A federal magistrate judge ordered the Trump administration to identify the people who designed a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund established through a settlement involving President Donald Trump, two of his sons, his company and the Internal Revenue Service. The fund proposed taxpayer-funded payouts to people claiming they suffered weaponization or lawfare, potentially including Jan. 6 rioters later pardoned by Trump. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis granted part of plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery in the Eastern District of Virginia after the fund was temporarily blocked in May. Attorney General Todd Blanche later wrote that the fund was rescinded and did not exist, but his document omitted the original agreement’s signatories, leaving open a path for the fund and related IRS audit immunity to return. The proposal drew bipartisan criticism and threatened Blanche’s confirmation, while Trump has continued to express sympathy for potential recipients.