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Trump DOJ may have telegraphed its secret 'slush fund' plans in new filing: analysis
The Fund They Won’t Kill on the RecordContextThe Justice Department helped create a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund as part of a settlement tied to Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, then backed away after bipartisan outrage and public condemnation of the setup as a slush fund for allies. But when U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema demanded sworn declarations that the fund would never exist, the department declined to make that promise under oath.Power, Not ConfusionThe people with actual institutional power here are not the headlines’ symbolic targets. They are the officials…
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