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'Terrible waste': DOJ spent big to hang banners with Trump's face
When Justice Becomes a Prop DepartmentThe Real StoryPolitico reports that the Department of Justice spent nearly $1 million on a so-called “beautification” project at Main Justice, including celebratory banners featuring Donald Trump’s face and the slogan “Make America Safe Again.” That is the surface fact. The deeper fact is simpler: a federal law-enforcement department used public money and administrative secrecy to stage loyalty imagery for the president.Who Held PowerThis was not some rogue clerk’s prank. The institutional actors here were the DOJ leadership, the contractors executing the…
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