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Trump throws tantrum as key priority crumbles in real time: ‘Hunted down like dogs’

Public Money for Political LoyaltyPower, Plainly StatedDonald Trump spent Friday raging about a stalled $1.7 billion “anti-weaponization fund” meant to pay Jan. 6 participants he says were “hunted down like dogs.” That is the basic fact pattern. The larger fact is more important: the president is using the machinery of government to seek public reimbursement for people who tried to overturn an election and then to frame that payout as justice.This is not a muddled dispute over process. It is a deliberate demand that the state underwrite political violence after the fact.A Fund for…

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