Outrage Watch: Rampant Corruption Edition
By Mort Kondracke
Donald Trump is far and away the most corrupt president in US history. Republican officials still can’t call him that, but polls show that a majority of Americans do. It’s about time, but it’s still only 54% margin according to a new YouGov poll. It ought to be about 80%: unanimous minus 20% for Trump’s mentally imprisoned MAGA followers, who still call him “honest.”
Democrats have been using the ‘c” word for most of Trump’s second term, occasionally (correctly) calling it “blatant.” But something important changed last week with Trump’s Justice Department’s creating an “anti-weaponization” fund designed to offer monetary relief (at taxpayers’ expense) to persons contending they’ve been victims of unfair investigation or prosecution by the Biden administration, including Jan. 6 Capitol riot perpetrators already pardoned by Trump and designated by him as “patriots” or “political prisoners.”
Trump defended the fund saying he “gave up a lot of money” to establish it (after first denying he had any involvement in it). He was referring to a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department over a government contractor’s unlawful release of his tax returns (which he promised to release but never has). He was, in effect, suing himself and the judge overseeing the case expressed doubt he could win it.
So he decided to set up the anti-weaponization fund as a “humanitarian” settlement of the case, with an added codicil that he and his sons would never undergo a government audit of their finances or be prosecuted over them. Payouts from the fund will be secret and Acting Attorney General stipulated that Jan. 6 defendants were eligible. Several of them have confirmed they will apply.
https://www.postalley.org/2026/05/27/outrage-watch-rampant-corruption-edition/