By
Elie Honig,
a former federal and state prosecutor and a contributor to CAFE
He made a deal with himself.
Donald Trump and his Justice Department have begrudgingly accepted that their tragicomically ill-conceived $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund is toast. The only real question was whether political or legal resistance would snuff it out first. Turns out we’ll never know because Todd Blanche — the acting attorney general nominated by Trump for the permanent job in the midst of this unholy mess — pulled the plug on his own concoction after full-scale Republican revolt in Congress. Trump eventually accepted reality and publicly mourned the loss of his “beautiful thing.”
