President Trump has faced relentless, extraordinary efforts to destroy him outside of heretofore normal political combat. The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago over alleged mishandling of classified materials despite its own agents’ doubts about probable cause. Officials in Colorado, Maine and Illinois sought to remove him from the 2024 ballot using a Civil War-era constitutional clause, before the Supreme Court unanimously reversed them. Trump’s infamous mugshot is the result of Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis booking him on a racketeering indictment that subsequently collapsed. And a civil case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, funded in part by a prominent Democratic donor, resulted in damages of nearly $90 million despite Carroll being unable to recall what year the alleged encounter took place.
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It’s important context for the current debate over President Trump’s $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, established from the settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. The fund’s stated purpose is to award money to victims of lawfare unduly targeted by a Justice Department that engaged in politically motivated prosecutions.
