Could the attempt to establish the slush fund blow up in Don's face in an unexpected way?

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The fact that he is instead appointing an independent and non-partisan board shows how strong his integrity is and how he avoids even the appearance of bias.

The board is completely under trump's control and members can be removed by him without explanation.

You are among the most gullible trumples on the board.

The creation of this fund is a stupefying feat of self-dealing, part of a “settlement agreement” between the Department of the Treasury, which Mr. Trump controls, and the plaintiffs — Mr. Trump, two of his sons and their family business — who sued the I.R.S. for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns. It will very likely result in an undeserved windfall to a legion of Jan. 6 rioters who have already unjustly received pardons from Mr. Trump.

Every part of this farce is an affront to the Constitution. It usurps both the exclusive power of Congress to legislate programs and spend money and the power of the courts to decide specific cases and controversies.

It is, quite simply, a scam.

Only Congress has the power to appropriate federal dollars. Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution states that “no money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.” But Mr. Trump and the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, seem to think they can conjure this giant slush fund into being without congressional approval.

Further, Article III, Section 1 states that the “judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Yet the settlement took Mr. Trump’s case out of the hands of the courts. And it calls for oversight by a five-member board, appointed by Mr. Blanche and whose members Mr. Trump can dismiss on a whim.

Even if this fund were legitimate, that kind of setup wouldn’t be for Mr. Blanche to decide. Congress has never established a court, tribunal or board to hear pleas from people who believe they are victims of government “weaponization,” much less a fund almost certainly meant to reward supporters and allies of the president who feel they were wronged simply because they were prosecuted for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

Opinion | There’s a Way to Stop Trump’s I.R.S. Slush Fund

There should be no payouts to Jan. 6 rioters.

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