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President Donald Trump has weaponized the Justice Department so egregiously, he has literally destroyed an important pillar of American life, at least according to one conservative commentator.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Trump’s $1.776 billion weaponization fund to compensate January 6th rioters for their troubles is now (probably\u2014perhaps mostly) dead,\u201d The Bulwark\u2019s Elliot Williams wrote on Sunday. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean that you should stop paying attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams pointed out that, despite Trump saying he is no longer going to dispense money from the fund, the president has already indicated that it could be revived. Even his fellow Republican senators have not foreclosed the possibility, as they pointedly refused to ban the fund as part of the recently-passed reconciliation bill. Similarly, they have not taken a strong stand against the provision of the agreement that gives Trump\u2019s family from IRS audits of any of their past tax returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are important dimensions of this story, of course,\u201d Williams wrote. \u201cBut the thing that remains most troubling is what\u2019s going on with the underlying case\u2014Trump\u2019s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS\u2014and the way it attests to an alarming trend in the U.S. justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cA federal judge in Miami who is involved in the case recently took the step of reopening it because she feared that the Department of Justice might have lied to her. Technically, what the judge said was that she wants to investigate \u2018grievous allegations\u2019 that the deal to resolve the suit was \u2018premised on deception.\u2019 (That\u2019s federal judge-speak for \u2018The United States Department of Justice might have lied to me to get this done.\u2019)\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams emphasized that this is not normal behavior in a functioning democracy, and that it indeed imperils the rule of law in the United States.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut in the age of Trump, it isn\u2019t the first documented instance of the administration upending the abstruse but foundational legal principle that government officials are assumed to have acted honestly and in good faith,\u201d Williams wrote. \u201cIt is called the \u2018presumption of regularity,\u2019 a centuries-old concept conceived in England and baked into American law. The Trump administration has acted with almost total disregard for it hundreds of times. And its de facto loss has huge ramifications that are being felt throughout our legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking for MS NOW earlier this month Norm Eisen, co-founder and board member of Democracy Defenders Action and former special counsel for the impeachment and trial of Trump during his first term, expressed doubt that Trump has sincerely abandoned the $1.8 billion slush fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou only need to look at Donald Trump’s long history of lies\u2026 to disbelieve the notion that the settlement fund and everything associated with it is going to vanish,\u201d Eisen explained. \u201cWe are fighting to erase the slush fund. It’s a disgrace.\u201d Eisen went on to point to settlement agreements that forbid the IRS from investigating Trump or his family, calling it \u201cthe worst example of corruption in the history of the American presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cIf you pull the rug out from under that case, then everything falls down. There’s no legal basis to be giving away the store, as they’ve done with these settlements. The whole thing is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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