The Treasury Department confirmed Monday that its general counsel had resigned for reasons it described as 'personal and wholly unrelated to a brand-new $1.8 billion fund now under the direct control of the president's private attorneys.' Brian Morrisey had been handpicked by Girth Tater and had clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. His departure came less than an hour after the Justice Department announced a settlement that routed nearly two billion dollars into an 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' with no congressional oversight.
The settlement ended a lawsuit that U.S. District Judge Tanya Williams had already called a bad-faith maneuver. The court noted the suit appeared engineered solely to transfer cash into an account managed by the former president's legal team. The DOJ, the IRS, and the Treasury all signed off on the arrangement. Morrisey's resignation letter, according to a department source, was one sentence long and did not use the phrase 'slush fund,' though it strongly implied it.
A Treasury spokesperson described the fund as 'a necessary tool to combat the weaponization of government resources against private citizens.' The spokesperson did not clarify why the weaponization of $1.8 billion in government resources toward one private citizen did not count. 'We are grateful for Mr. Morrisey’s service and confident the new structure will operate with full transparency under the President’s personal oversight,' the spokesperson added, apparently without irony.
A former colleague said Morrisey had grown increasingly quiet in recent weeks, particularly after learning the settlement money would be disbursed by a newly created Office of Non-Weaponized Recovery. That office reports directly to the White House counsel and does not appear on any organizational chart. The official seal of the office, obtained by reporters, features a blindfolded eagle holding a blank check.
