There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This

“Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order? Certainly not in modern times,” the New York Times editorial board writes. “President Trump’s Justice Department is using taxpayer money to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund. Ostensibly set up to compensate those who the department claims have ‘suffered weaponization and lawfare,’ it will in fact reward loyalists willing to defy the law and commit violence on behalf of the president.”

The editorial board continues:

>The fund manages to combine three of Mr. Trump’s most alarming behaviors. One, it is an obvious form of corruption, coming from a president who has used his office to enrich himself, his family and his allies. Two, the fund continues his pattern of using the Justice Department as an enforcer to punish his perceived opponents and protect his friends and allies. Three, the fund is his latest attempt to rewrite history about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.

>It is worth pausing to put the fund into the larger context of Mr. Trump’s political project: He is destroying pillars of American democracy to empower himself. He claims elections are legitimate only if he wins. He uses federal law enforcement to investigate and prosecute his perceived enemies. He purges his party of officials who defy him. He describes members of the other party and civil society as traitors and enemies. He incentivizes his supporters to break the law on his behalf and rewards them when they do. He directs his allies to change election rules to keep his party in power.

>Mr. Trump’s project has not yet succeeded, at least not fully. Many Americans — in the judicial system, in Congress, in state governments and elsewhere — continue to stand up for democracy and oppose his autocratic ambitions. By now, though, nobody should have illusions about what he is attempting to do.

Read the full piece [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/opinion/trump-doj-slush-fund-criminals-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.EZeE.uNfa3Ioq1cKD&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

Elect a conman and you will get…wait for… Conned!!! His fucking name is Don the Con. “Holy shit I jumped in the pool of urine and now I’m all wet and stink like urine!!?” Yes. Yes you do smell like urine.

It’s a huge win for the Trump family

Kudos to NYTimes for not sanewashing as typical for them.

And yet Americans keep voting for this… go figure

Ok. But, like, if Trump is this bad, can you just imagine how bad it would have been to let Harris win?

(I don’t like using /s, but you just *know* some chucklefuck cultist wholeheartedly believes that. So, here we are.)

You mean since the last week

Truly a test case for the presidency and the country

“Dijongate” – It was the talk of the dinner table all Summer ’09.

If you are black, the GOP feels that reparations are antithetical to personal responsibility, will divide the electorate into groups of debtors and creditors, and it’s impossible to establish fair criteria for compensation.

If you are white, here is the application.

I understand the desire to say, “the biggest corruption since last week” and to wrap yourself in a blanket of cynicism since everything he does is corrupt and he gets away with all of it and it all feels so hopeless.

But yeah this is super fucked up. He’s created the precedent that he can sue his own government for anything and the attorney general he appointed will settle for any amount of money, no matter how preposterous and rob money from tax payers.

It is beyond the pale that anyone who pays taxes thinks this is ok, they wouldn’t accept this from any other President ever. Just like Epstein and the Iran War and the ICE murders and January 6th we have to remember and remind and point out with this one.

Remember when Republicans tried to nail Biden to the wall based on three $3,500 payments from Hunter to pay back a car loan? Setting aside the fact that this wasn’t even any corruption, even though they pretended it was.

Instead we get corruption in the literal BILLIONS with Trump and Co, and nobody bats an eye. They got their tax cuts for Wall Street and Corporations, plus gerrymandering, so they don’t care.

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.     As the midterms get closer you’ll see lots of things for which there is no precedent in American history.

No.

This makes Teapot Dome look like fixing a parking ticket.

How can any of this be legal? Sue your country for $10 Billion in which you are president and then settle for a $1.776 Billion slush fund paid for by all US taxpayers, and also get the IRS to never audit your family or businesses. He is NOT above the law and yet, they are giving him all these ‘get out of jail free’ cards. This is UNJUST. Contact your senators and representatives and demand justice.