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New York Times Columnist and attorney David French told fellow columnists that he has absolutely no compassion for the Republicans who nailed themselves to President Donald Trump\u2019s collapsing house.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re seeing this combination of factors happening right now,\u201d said French speaking to a Saturday panel of Trump\u2019s attempt to create a wildly unpopular slush fund, under his exclusive control, to disburse money to people of his choosing. \u201cTrump is [pushing the fund] at the same time that he has flexed an enormous amount of control over the G.O.P. at the grass-roots level, with defeating five Indiana senators who defied him on redistricting, getting rid of Congressman Thomas Massie, getting rid of Senator Bill Cassidy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there are two ominous things underway as Trump does this, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them is that he is showing everybody that \u2014 and he\u2019s putting these Republicans even more in a box than they were \u2014 they\u2019re in a terrible position, for which I have no sympathy. And the terrible position is if they defy Trump, they are in all likelihood going to lose their job in a primary, if not now, maybe the next cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[But] if they don\u2019t defy Trump, they are tying themselves to \u2014 as Jamelle just outlined \u2014 they\u2019re lashing themselves to the mast of a sinking ship,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo, it\u2019s either you go down with the ship or you go down at the hands of primary voters. Those are your two options. And I have no sympathy because they could have put a stop to all this, as we know, after Jan. 6 \u2014 any healthy, functioning political party would have put a stop to this after Jan. 6, but they chose not to. They made their bed, but you know what? They also made our bed as well, and we\u2019re all in it. We\u2019re all in this together now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Columnist Jamelle Bouie said Trump\u2019s slush fund was already dead in the water just because it’s proposed by a such an unpopular president \u2014 even before it was criticized as horrendous grift.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have to imagine that this is wildly unpopular with the public for a couple of reasons: The first is that just by proximity to Trump \u2014 Trump is so unpopular that this becomes unpopular by extension. But the other thing is, it\u2019s such a striking example of the president\u2019s fundamental indifference to the economic prospects of ordinary Americans. It\u2019s like Trump saying, \u2018I don\u2019t care about that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It does not help that Trump unleashed a colossal gaffe earlier this month before leaving for his flight to China, when he was asked if he takes Americans’ economic well-being into consideration as he negotiations and end to his self-started war with Iran. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think about Americans\u2019 financial situation. I don\u2019t think about anybody,” Trump answered with a quote that has reverberated over the media as Trump demands taxpayer money for his expensive ballroom, his arch and now this unsupervised $1.8 billion fund.<\/p>\n

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