Top Treasury lawyer resigns as Trump, IRS settlement announced

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune has split with the Trump administration over its creation of a $1.7bn (£1.3bn) fund aimed at compensating individuals "unfairly" investigated by previous administrations.

Recasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority.

Lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service sought to contest President Trump’s lawsuit against the agency, recommending several potential defenses in a case that the Justice Department nevertheless decided to resolve by creating an extraordinary $1.8 billion fund that could soon be used to pay Mr. Trump’s political allies.

He will likely face questions about the DOJ’s creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate the president’s allies who claim they were targeted by the previous administration.