Trump’s Slush Fund Is an Insult to the Founders. Congress Has to Shut It Down.

Mr. Raskin, a Democrat, represents Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District.

These days it takes a spectacular burst of corruption to get the attention of our scandal-weary nation, but President Trump and his administration have managed, once again, to transfix Americans by establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in the Department of Justice that will undoubtedly be used to line the pockets of Mr. Trump’s partisans and foot soldiers — with your tax dollars.

The creation of this fund is a stupefying feat of self-dealing — part of a “settlement agreement” between the........

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