President Donald Trump’s new $1.776 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration is the kind of scheme that might once have irrevocably stained a presidency.
Yet Trump has spent years shattering ethical expectations surrounding his office. His brazen leadership has long shed the power to shock.
Still, the plan, announced by the Justice Department on Monday and denounced by critics as a slush fund, is a study of his political project in microcosm.
It exemplifies several of Trump’s cardinal rules across two presidencies: harbor grudges, never admit defeat, and always seek retribution.
Trump’s belief that he was uniquely persecuted because of his politics remains a burning motivating force despite his sidelining of criminal probes against him by winning back the presidency.
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