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GOP Strategist Files First Known DOJ Anti-Weaponization Claim

Is Caputo's claim long-overdue justice for Russiagate or part of a taxpayer-funded grift for Trump loyalists?

Published MAY 20

GOP Strategist Files First Known DOJ Anti-Weaponization Claim

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Above: Michael Caputo (L) after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee at the U.S. Capitol on July 14, 2017. Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Spin

Republican narrative

Nine years of government targeting drained savings, destroyed careers, and shattered families, with no accountability for those responsible. Russiagate wasn't a mere political dispute but an illegal assault on ordinary Americans for supporting President Donald Trump. Caputo, who was politically targeted from 2016 to 2025, is right to seek a $2.7M claim from the DOJ's new anti-weaponization fund as overdue accountability and reform.

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Democratic narrative

The so-called "anti-weaponization fund" is a brazen $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded grift machine built to reward Trump loyalists, not victims of injustice. Michael Caputo — who lived in Russia, helped arrange a meeting between Roger Stone and a Russian agent, and celebrated Robert Mueller's death — is first in line to cash in for $2.7 million. Hundreds more shady Trump allies, including violent Jan. 6 rioters, could follow.

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