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GOP's 'remarkable' Trump humiliation floors ex-prosecutor: 'They have gone too far’
Trump’s Loyalty Tax on the SenateThe SetupThe reporting describes a familiar Republican farce with a new invoice attached: the Trump Justice Department wants to create a $1.776 billion so-called “anti-weaponization” fund to pay former January 6 rioters and Trump allies who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted. Two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, briefly slowed Todd Blanche’s attorney general confirmation because Blanche would not put in writing that the fund was dead.That is the basic story. The political meaning is uglier. This is not a dispute over principle. It is a…
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