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GOP senator abruptly halts meeting after Trump pick ignores demand to kill slush fund
The Slush Fund Was the PolicyPower, Not ConfusionSen. John Cornyn has suddenly discovered that Todd Blanche’s confirmation is entangled with a nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” tied to Trump’s IRS settlement. Blanche says the fund is dead. Cornyn is not buying it, because the written agreement still exists, the language still matters, and the Justice Department has refused to produce anything that would conclusively kill it. That is the whole story, stripped of the fog.What matters here is not whether Blanche can say “dead” with a straight face. It is who had the power to create…
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