The New York Occasions editorial board has delivered a scathing, 1,200-plus-word critique of Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
In a prolonged editorial, the newspaper’s board opened with the stark query: “Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order?”
“Actually not in fashionable occasions,” it answered itself, earlier than laying out precisely why it believes that’s the case.
The board fiercely condemned the usage of “taxpayer cash to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund” and predicted its purported goal of compensating “those that the division claims have ‘suffered weaponization and lawfare’” will simply “in actual fact reward loyalists.”
The editorial contextualized the fund, the results of a authorized settlement after Trump sued over the leak of his tax data, inside a broader sample of conduct by Trump and his MAGA allies — who usually declare the Justice Division has been weaponized in opposition to them.
“He’s destroying pillars of American democracy to empower himself,” the board stated, noting how he “claims elections are legit provided that he wins,” “makes use of federal regulation enforcement to analyze and prosecute his perceived enemies” and far more.