President Donald Trump’s latest scam against the American taxpayer is brazen even by his usual, shameless standards.
The president’s Department of Justice this week announced a $1.776 billion fund that will make secret payments to Jan. 6 defendants and other Trump allies who say they were wrongly prosecuted by the Biden administration, without any legal or congressional oversight.
That fact alone is so blatantly corrupt that it almost seems like things can’t get any worse, and yet, scratching the surface reveals yet another layer of grift.
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