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Former National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson says there just aren\u2019t enough corruption counters to count all the corruption leeching out of the Trump White House these days.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump doesn\u2019t see the reckoning coming for him: analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTo recap: Donald Trump has sued the Donald Trump administration over alleged wrongdoing by the Donald Trump administration, and an out-of-court settlement between Donald Trump and the Donald Trump administration will have Donald Trump\u2019s DOJ ponying up the better part of $2 billion to be put into a fund controlled by Donald Trump and used for the benefit of \u2014 let\u2019s check in here with dead-eyed White House trash panda J.D. Vance \u2014 \u201cpeople who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6th protests,\u201d Williamson writes in the Dispatch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to need a whole brigade of additional tally-men to tally the bananas in this bananas republic,\u201d added Williamson, a writer-in-residence at the conservative Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n

The situation amounts to \u201cone group of Trump sycophants negotiating with another group of Trump sycophants for the benefit of Trump sycophants and Trump himself,\u201d said Williamson. Trump did not demand outright immunity from taxes \u2014 he only demanded immunity from being investigated or prosecuted<\/em> for not paying his taxes, or for tax fraud, or for other tax-related mischief.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmunity for himself, for his business associates, for Uday and Qusay and the rest of his ghastly cretinous spawn,\u201d explained Williamson.<\/p>\n

And Williamson invested extra disgust for Vice President JD Vance, who he describes as \u201cthe coprophagic charlatan who once compared Trump to Adolf Hitler before becoming the full-time monkey-butler serving the totally-nothing-like-Hitler administration.\u201d <\/p>\n

Read more GOP strategist says Trump has hit the dreaded \u2018Velcro\u2019 phase<\/a><\/p>\n

Vance, said Williamson, \u201cthinks the January 6 rioters \u2014 the dimwitted brownshirts in Trump\u2019s failed 2021 coup d\u2019\u00e9tat <\/em>\u2014 just need a little more love and understanding, saying, in defense of the slush fund gambit,” claiming \u201cYou know who never, ever gets an ounce of sympathy when it comes to that disproportionate sentencing is people who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6th protests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse, said Williamson is who\u2019s already \u201clining up with their hands out,\u201d which includes \u201cProud Boys gruppenf\u00fchrer<\/em> Enrique Tarrio. Registered sex offender Andrew Taake, who got a six-year sentence for assaulting police officers on January 6, was pardoned by Trump with a bonus get-out-of-jail-free card on a separate child-sex charge.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s \u201cthe biggest parade of schmucks, chiselers, lunatics, conspiracy kooks, and criminals since Trump\u2019s last Cabinet meeting,\u201d said Williamson \u2014 and don\u2019t expect this outrage to break the MAGA spell, he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s slavering loyalists already have forgiven him for trying to overthrow the government \u2014 you think they\u2019re going to get big mad over his stealing a little money?\u201d asked Williamson.\u201c\u2026 Trump was right about his being able to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing any political support\u2014and his implied contempt for his voters is entirely justified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more \u2018That\u2019s our money\u2019: Fuming MAGA voter tears apart Trump\u2019s latest scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former National Review writer Kevin D. 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