Donald Trump''s slush funds is a criminal use of tax payer money for him to use for his own vindiciive purposes

 Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial

Times Opinion: Trump’s new slush fund is rank corruption — public money for lawbreakers and his corrupt pals.
The dollar amount in Donald Trump's

💲1.776 Billion slush fund memorializes this nation's revolutionary break from a king; if this agreement fully goes through, we might as well be returning to an unaccountable monarchy. The origin of this corrupt pot of cash for the president to pay himself, his family and his political allies, including January 6th, rioters and other democracy enemies, was his personal lawsuit against the IRS, which has been settled with the new agreement to create the slush fund.

If there has been one through line to the second Trump administration, it is the effort to relentlessly push the boundaries of what is possible or acceptable by an executive a little further out every day. This represents one major leap in the direction of authoritarianism — Donald Trump is directly raiding the public coffers to enrich cronies, not just via his corrupt business dealings and pseudo-bribes from foreign governments, but straight up getting checks from the public treasury.

Also, we must ask what this outcome ultimately incentivizes❓ It's hard not to read it as Donald Trump paying the foot soldiers in his failed 2021, coup for t

These convicted  insurrectionists have already ensured that they won't face criminal consequences for their attempt to end American democracy during their evil January 6th attacks on the Capitol. It is impossible to understand how Republicans continue to support evil Trumpzi-ism and his corrupt intentions. 

Trump has continuously intimated that he may attempt to run for a third term; this would of course be unconstitutional, but Trump has demonstrated that he places very little stock in that document.
The Anti-Weaponization Fund (aka "slush fund") being set up in the Department of Justice will have a five-person board answering only to the attorney general, who is now Trump's former personal criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche in an acting capacity. There will be no congressional oversight and no public accountability. It's also not clear who can seek money, but as the Daily News pointed out, Rudy Giuliani and Eric Adams seem to fit the profile.

The message of these payouts is that those who violate the law, even those who engage in violence on behalf of Trump's agenda may, not only evade consequences but be compensated with public funds, a sickening outcome. In addition, the settlement reportedly has stipulations that the IRS will forever suspend inquiries into Trump, family members and companies over past tax non-compliance. What is that if not a direct license to keep even more public money pilfered via nonpayment, and a marker that the president and his inner circle are above the law❓

Police officers who defended Congress on January 6 are suing to stop this Anti-Weaponization Fund, 💢which would reward the mob who beat them. That seems like pretty good standing to us.

Congress, of course, should also probe this extraordinarily corrupt transactionk if it is ever able to shake itself out of its stupor and engage in the checks that it is supposed to have on the executive, who has busied himself weaponizing the government for his benefit while sapping Congress' own powers.

As shocking as this slush fund is, it should best be understood as one more test for what the administration can get away with. If that test is successful, it will absolutely not be the last time that Trump raids our taxpayer dollar💲 to bolster the MAGA agenda in direct contravention to the interests of protecting American democracy.