This is our taxpayer money. It should be going to the citizens for what they need. You know,

don't these wealthy people have enough money already? Are you concerned the optics of this

could hurt Republican chances of holding on to places like this? I think you could.

It certainly could. Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. It's not a great sign in politics when members of your own base have to beg you to focus on the issues your base cares about. One Trump voter living in a swing congressional district warning Donald Trump that his $1.8 billion slush fund and his refusal to focus on affordability could cause Republicans to lose his

district. Donald Trump's obsession with political retribution and bolstering and bandaging up his own ego

as Americans face higher and higher prices, but no end in sight may finally be using up

the Republican Party's seemingly endless vats of patience.

Here's Republican Senator Tom Tillis.

Look, you're talking about people who assaulted Capitol Police officers on January the 6th were then convicted.

Many of them pled guilty or they were convicted by a jury of their peers.

They could be eligible for this.

This is all a distraction and some people even think it may look like self-dealing.

I think whoever advised the president on this being a wise idea should not see that they should not plan on coming in the office on Monday.

Just a note, some of us have always been talking about people who assaulted police officers.

That has been the whole point for years now.

Even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board has weighed in on this,

though, in an op-ed entitled, quote, Trump has lost the governing plot, the Wall Street Journal

editorial board writing this, quote, Trump's politics have always been largely personal, but in his

second term, it has become self-indulgent, even by his standards. The Trump name on everything, the Beltway

arch and other monuments to French-like grandeur, and most of all the politics of retribution and

lawfare, as he seeks to ruin anyone he thinks has wronged him. Trump needs a second-year reset,

or he is headed toward a second-term failure. Now, despite those high-level,

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