WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump has settled his private lawsuit seeking $10 billion in damages from his own administration over its alleged mistreatment of him.

In exchange for dropping his lawsuit, the Justice Department has agreed to set up a billion-dollar “anti-weaponization fund” to create what the department called “a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”

Trump himself won’t receive any compensation, the Justice Department said.

Mark McCloskey, an attorney who has filed administrative claims for hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters, told HuffPost last week he’d advocated for the administration to set up such a fund to pay his clients.

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