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Corrupt Democrats and deep staters who have twisted justice to target their political enemies can\u2019t stand the idea of their victims receiving restitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It should be no surprise that D.C. creeps like Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. \u2014 who should be behind bars, not in Congress \u2014 have excoriated President Donald Trump and his administration\u2019s \u201canti-weaponization fund.\u201d Nor should it be a surprise that the Trump-hating accomplice media is throwing gasoline on the Democrat-lit bonfire over the fund. Some Republican senators, ever afraid of Trump sparks, and their own shadows for that matter, have joined the pitchfork parade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the $1.776 billion indemnity does raise some transparency concerns, its political critics like to contend that A) the Biden administration did not use the Department of Justice and outside lawfare bloodsuckers to lead witch hunts against Trump, his allies and other Democratic Party political enemies and B) Trump allies victimized by weaponized government don\u2019t deserve recompense.<\/p>\n

They also insist that the pool is an \u201cillegal slush fund.\u201d It is not. Congress authorized and established a fund to pay judgments against the United States 70 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fund was created as a permanent, indefinite appropriation to streamline payments for eligible judgments and later settlements where no other agency funds were available,\u201d Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Federalist. Its history is well documented.<\/p>\n

Lost in the din of who does and doesn\u2019t deserve restitution from government abuses are the people crushed under the corrupt justice of political weaponization. The victims are men like Wisconsin attorney and former judge Jim Troupis and Dr. Ron Elfenbein, dragged through hell in years-long \u2014 and ongoing political prosecutions. They have been ground underfoot by what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has described as the weaponized \u201cmachinery of government.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Five Years of Time Lost\u2019<\/h2>\n

Troupis, who is being prosecuted by far-left Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul for having the temerity to represent Trump\u2019s Wisconsin campaign in the wake of the 2020 election, is seeking $3.2 million from the anti-weaponization fund, according to a request obtained by The Federalist. In his letter to Blanche, the former Dane County, Wisconsin judge and nationally renowned election law expert, writes that he and his family have lived a nightmare since he stepped forward in November 2020 to represent the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government weaponization against me includes no fewer than 17 separate legal actions,\u201d Troupis writes, asserting that he has been buried under $1.7 million in costs associated with the left\u2019s lawfare campaign against him over the past five-plus years. Troupis, 72, claims he\u2019s been forced to draw down his retirement savings to cover his defense costs, expenses that \u201cwill likely cost me our family home and the balance of my retirement funds.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s paid much more, he writes, in the annihilation of his reputation and law practice, \u201cthousands of hours in preparation and response\u201d to the relentless legal assault against him, prosecutorial harassment of family members, and \u201cfive years of time lost with my children and grandchildren.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As The Federalist has extensively reported, Troupis, his fellow legal counsel Kenneth Chesbro, and Trump campaign aide Mike Roman, are among the targets of the Democrats\u2019 bogus \u201cfake electors\u201d prosecutions. Troupis and Chesebro advised their client to set a slate of alternate electors to protect Wisconsin\u2019s 10 electoral votes while the Trump campaign legally challenged election results in the battleground Badger State following the presidential election. A coordinated campaign, swing state leftist prosecutors and their chums in corporate media pushed the \u201cfake electors\u201d narrative to charge Trump allies.<\/p>\n

But as Kaul\u2019s own state Department of Justice twice noted, the legal strategy wasn\u2019t a crime. In fact, previous presidential campaigns have employed or considered using alternate electors while election results were being challenged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kaul decided to ignore his prosecutors\u2019 counsel and ultimately opted to hit Troupis and his co-defendants with a legally contorted forgery-uttering law charge \u2014 just as Trump was wrapping up his third GOP presidential nomination. Kaul later upped the ante, filing several additional charges alleging fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The case has been marred by controversy, including allegations that a former Dane County judge with a grudge against Troupis was the ghostwriter of a ruling killing a motion to dismiss Kaul\u2019s politically-driven prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Similar alternate elector cases have collapsed in other battleground states. In Michigan, District Court Judge Kristen D. Simmons tossed out the bogus felony charges against 15 Republicans, finding the defendants, \u201cwere executing their constitutional right to seek redress.\u201d Arizona\u2019s far-left attorney general has broken the law multiple times in her crooked attempt to keep her flimsy electors case alive.<\/p>\n

\u2018Grievously Harmed\u2019<\/h2>\n

But Kaul\u2019s political prosecution moves on, with a trial expected to take place in the middle of the contentious midterm election campaigns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, while my experience is a poster-child for what weaponization can do, I know so many others have suffered even more,\u201d Troupis wrote in his request to Blanche. \u201cAll this, for doing exactly what the law required to preserve President\u2019s Trump\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter lists what Troupis asserts are the many acts taken to destroy his life and the lives of his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The list includes a March 2022 \u201cSecret Subpoena of Gmail account (privileged attorney\/client)\u201d and a May 2022 \u201ccoordinated multimillion dollar Civil Suit\u201d premised on the Democrat-led J6 and U.S. Department of Justice investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In November 2022, disgraced federal prosecutor and Democratic Party henchman Jack Smith identified Troupis as a target of his weaponized investigation into Trump. In January 2024, the attorney was the subject of a second secret subpoena by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking privileged attorney\/client communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Troupis previously told The Federalist that his son was pulled aside by federal law enforcement officials and interrogated in a locked room as he was leaving a September 2022 Disney Cruise with his family. He said the agents seized his son\u2019s phone and confiscated his computer, an action taken to \u201cintimidate\u201d their real target.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJudge Troupis has been grievously harmed by AG Kaul\u2019s lawfare against him,\u201d Johnson, Wisconsin\u2019s senior senator, told The Federalist earlier this week. He said the prosecution led by the Democrat attorney general, previously a lawyer at that employed Russia collusion hoax peddler Marc Elias, was based on the Biden administration\u2019s weaponization of the Department of Justice \u201cagainst anyone involved in questioning the numerous irregularities of the 2020 election.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTroupis\u2019 valid claim against the federal government\u2019s abuse would be paid out the Treasury Department\u2019s Judgment Fund, which was established in 1956,\u201d the Wisconsin Republican said.\u00a0\u201cJudge Troupis deserves to be compensated out of this fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Person of the Year\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Dr. Ron Elfenbein, like Troupis, was well respected in his field. In the early days of the pandemic, the emergency room physician was for his tireless work testing and treating Covid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In June 2021, then-Gov. Larry Hogan recognized Elfenbein for \u201coutstanding services to the citizens\u201d of Maryland. Later that year, the Maryland State Legislature honored him with a citation for \u201cStepping up for your fellow Marylanders, being on the front line fighting this pandemic, and for your honor, integrity, compassion and vision.\u201d He also was named \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d by the Maryland State Medical Society, an award delivered even after President Joe Biden\u2019s weaponized Department of Justice indicted him on suspect Medicare billing fraud charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Covid hit the United States, Elfenbein set up comprehensive rapid testing sites seeing thousands of patients. By the end of 2020, he was establishing a monoclonal antibody infusion center and getting miraculous results from the treatments. The operation was so effective that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in early 2021 asked Elfenbein to establish a monoclonal antibody infusion center in a church near FedEx Field in Landover. Using a test-to-treat model, the center tested and immediately infused qualifying Covid patients.<\/p>\n

But things quickly turned sour soon after Elfenbein began publicly criticizing the Biden administration\u2019s change in direction on the treatments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Doctor Convicted\u2019<\/h2>\n

In late summer 2021, Biden\u2019s DEI secretary of HHS infused \u201cequity\u201d \u2014 race-based criteria \u2014 in determining who should be at the front of the line for monoclonal antibodies treatment. Elfenbein was frustrated. He wasn\u2019t alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing HHS should be doing is impeding on providers\u2019 ability to best serve their patients, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote in a Sept. 2021 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. \u201cThis recent HHS order will further prevent doctors from being able to treat their patients and prevent their patients from receiving the care they need when they need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, the Biden administration suddenly switched up treatment suppliers, insisting the antibodies were not as effective with an emerging omicron variant of Covid. As Fox News Digital reported at the time, the Covid \u201cexperts\u201d at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were forced to backtrack on their dire warnings that omicron cases topped 72 percent, when in fact they were around 22 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that these people are so adamant that they\u2019re right when they\u2019re\u00a0using faulty data and they\u2019re using faulty logic and frankly statistical\u00a0modeling that has never been correct, ever, throughout this entire\u00a0pandemic, to look at this, is just beyond the pale,\u201d Elfenbein told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the height of bureaucratic arrogance, and it\u2019s just, it\u2019s horrible,\u201d the physician added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A few months later, in April 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Elfenbein with three counts of healthcare fraud. Elfenbein and 17 other defendants across the country were targeted and charged in what government agents described as \u201cvarious fraud schemes\u201d resulting in $149 million in Covid-related false billing to federal programs and pandemic assistance theft. Federal prosecutors accused the doctor of upcoding his Covid testing claims to the tune of $15 million. He was ultimately charged with five counts of healthcare fraud. Elfenbein faced up to 50 years in prison for what he says was a total of $250 in alleged higher-than-allowable billing \u2014 $50 for each of the five counts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In August 2023, a federal jury convicted the doctor, who, the DOJ beamed, became \u201cthe first doctor convicted at trial by the Justice Department for health care fraud in billing for office visits in connection with patients seeking COVID-19 tests.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018It Would be Unjust\u2019<\/h2>\n

The verdict didn\u2019t stand long. In December 2023, U.S. District Judge James Bredar, then serving as chief judge of the Maryland District, He ruled that the government failed to provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Elfenbein manipulated a federal claim coding system that was in a state of constant change during the peak of the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he evidence weighs so heavily in favor of the defendant it would be unjust to enter judgment against him,\u201d Bredar wrote in the . \u201cCitizens, including healthcare providers, cannot be held to criminal account for doing only what a technical regulation is reasonably read to permit, even if to do so would seem to benefit them excessively.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Biden DOJ appealed right before the filing deadline and not long before Trump\u2019s second presidential inauguration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A half-year later, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in part Bredar\u2019s decision, finding the jury had enough evidence to reach its verdict. But the panel acknowledged that \u201cthe case was close\u201d and agreed with Bredar in ordering a new trial. That trial is set for August.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The DOJ\u00a0 \u2014 the Trump DOJ \u2014 is moving forward with the re-do prosecution, and Elfenbein is right back in the crosshairs of an overreaching government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s Just Evil\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u201cThis has taken millions of dollars to defend myself and now I have to face a new trial and that\u2019s going to be millions more \u2014 money by the way that I didn\u2019t have and I still don\u2019t have,\u201d Elfenbein told me in an upcoming episode of The Federalist Radio Hour<\/em> podcast. \u201cI\u2019m in debt to my lawyers and I will be to the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

As in Troupis\u2019 case, Elfenbein said the psychological damage that he and his family have endured has taken a huge toll. He said he went 2 1\/2 years without sleeping, that he was a shell of his former self. Three of his four kids had to go into therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIm an optimistic person but I was as close to suicidal as I ever have been in my life. It was horrific. I would not wish this on my worst enemy,\u201d the physician said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His supporters have petitioned the president to urge the DOJ to dismiss the case with prejudice \u201cin the interests of justice, fairness, proportionality, and public confidence in the integrity of the legal system.\u201d It cites the myriad holes in the case and the political motivations of its prosecutors, the alleged vendetta of the Biden administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it appears he has yet to seek compensation from the federal government, Elfenbein\u2019s story \u2014 like so many others \u2014 drives home the importance of the anti-weaponization fund, and Blanche\u2019s pledge that DOJ \u201cwill make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most un-America thing I can ever imagine, when your own government is weaponized against you like that. It\u2019s just unconscionable and it\u2019s just evil.\u201d Elfenbein told The Federalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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