Analysis: Trumpâs compensation plan is a metaphor for a brazen presidency | CNN Politics
President Donald Trumpâs new $1.776 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration is the kind of scheme that might once have irrevocably stained a presidency. Yet Trump has spent years shattering ethical expectations surrounding his office. His brazen leadership has long shed the power to shock. Still, the plan, announced by the Justice Department on Monday and denounced by critics as a slush fund, is a study of his political project in microcosm. It exemplifies several of Trumpâs cardinal rules across two presidencies: harbor grudges, never admit defeat, and always seek retribution. Trumpâs belief that he was uniquely persecuted because of his politics remains a burning motivating force despite his sidelining of criminal probes against him by winning back the presidency. In his business career, Trump was a prolific litigant and was party to countless lawsuits. During his criminal cases in recent years, he used his rights to their full extent to successfully delay cases against him. Now, in his self-awarded capacity as the nationâs top law enforcement official, heâs stretching the legal system in a new and highly contr
Source: For the complete article, please visit the original source link below.
