Will Republicans Stand Against Trump’s Slush Fund?

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund and the indictment of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro. The Agenda: —The slush fund —The impeachment case —Will Congress grow a spine? —Indictment of Raúl Castro —The Venezuela model —NWYT: Discontinued treats Dispatch Recommendations: —A Time for Choosin’, Texas —Will Trump’s Reverse Midas Touch Cost the GOP Texas? —Keeping Antisemites Out of the Tent —Masculinism and Feminism | Interview: Helen Lewis Show notes: —Steve on Schiltz for The Weekly Standard The Dispatch Podcast is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.3	Welcome to the dispatch podcast.
0:33.3	I'm Steve Hayes.
0:34.4	On today's roundtable, we'll discuss Donald Trump's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund
0:42.5	in the indictment of Cuban political leader Raul Castro.
0:47.6	And a fun not worth your time today where I lament the end of Schlitzbeer,
0:53.8	and we discuss some other products that we can't
0:57.2	get anymore.
0:58.5	I'm joined by my dispatch colleagues Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren.
1:03.7	Let's dive in.
1:04.4	Thank you. Mike, we spent some time at the end of Monday's Dispatch podcast,
1:22.2	supplanting our light and always fun, not worth your time segment with mini rants about Donald Trump's slush fund
1:32.4	$1.776 billion anti-weaponization slush fund. The news broke during the recording on Monday. We've now had several days to read it,
1:48.2	to try to understand it. And so I will ask you this morning to get us started by explaining what this
1:57.1	is. Were we right to be as cynical earlier this week as we were?
2:03.6	I think we were right to be as cynical as we were. We were maybe perhaps not outraged enough
2:09.9	by the details and by the sort of the providence of this fund because I admit that when the
2:16.1	news broke, I didn't quite fully, you know, connect all the dots.
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