The president’s slush-fund-and-tax-penalty “settlement” is brazenly criminal. If our governing institutions can’t block it, America will officially be a banana republic.

"It's illegal and corrupt as hell," Congressman Don Beyer said of the president's self-dealing $1.77 billion IRS settlement. "We're fighting it in court."

As Trump reaches a “settlement” with DOJ that hands $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to a fund he controls, a legal expert explains just how corrupt this truly is—and why it might…