Hi, everyone, happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. So it only took 11 years, but finally, at long last, there is an idea on the table that is too toxic, too smelly, too horrible for Donald Trump. It's, of course, the $1.8 billion slush fund to pay Donald

Trump's allies and cronies and supporters up to him potentially including the violent

insurrectionists who assaulted cops on January 6, 2021. That idea, that slush fund, died an unceremonious death today. A senior White House official

confirming to our colleague Jackie Alamini news that was first reported by Axios, that the Trump

administration's plans to drop the controversial fund are true. It's unclear at the moment how

that part of the story affects the deal that it was part of,

this deal with the IRS, where they agreed to effectively grant immunity to Donald Trump and

Trump's kids and Trump's businesses from any and all tax audits and investigations now and forever

in the future.

But as for the fun, which was part of that settlement,

take a listen to what one of the law enforcement officers

who defended the United States Capitol on January 6th,

and everyone inside of it said when the slush phone was first announced two weeks ago.

I think adjectives have lost meaning in describing the actions of this administration.

I guess there's a combination of two that come to mind and it's disgraceful.

That taxpayer money would be used to compensate violent insurrectionists. And let's make no mistake about what this fund is going to be used for.

This fund is going to be used to pay violent criminals for committing violent crimes on behalf

of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.

And that's it.

You know, if January 20th was the nail in the coffin for accountability on January 6th in Trump's pardoning of the 1,500-plus insurrectionists that participated in the

events of that day. This was like salt on the wound.

I want to stop for a second and address the question I get more than just about anything else,

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