Opinion: How Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund Is a New Violent Attack on Cops

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion “weaponization” slush fund has presented a choice between expiation and damnation to a convicted felon who was pronounced by a judge to be one of the worst of the Jan. 6 insurrection. “Your actions are some of the most egregious crimes that were committed on that dark day,” U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden told Patrick McCaughey on April 14, 2023, sentencing him to 90 months for assaulting a police officer at the Capitol. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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