Opinion: How Trump Turned the Law Upside Down in $1.7 Billion Heist

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters It is a sick joke on America’s history that Donald Trump chose the amount of $1.776 billion to bilk from taxpayers to pay his MAGA friends. He has already picked a sport with a fragile hold on the rules—UFC—to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary with a cage fight at the White House on June 14. Now the president is using 1776—the year the thirteen colonies declared independence from Great Britain—to frame an unprecedented challenge to the U.S. Constitution, which has been the nation’s guiding light for 237 of those 250 years. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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