Todd Blanche grilled over Trump administration’s $1.8B ’anti-weaponization’ fund

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Watchdog groups calls fund ‘one of the single most corrupt acts in American history’.

Todd Blanche, acting attorney general in Donald Trump’s administration, faced intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill on Tuesday over Justice Department plans to create a $1.77-billion US fund to pay allies of the Republican president who believe they were targeted politically.

Blanche’s testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee was meant to address the department’s annual budget request but it follows Monday’s announcement about the creation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund. Critics have decried it as an illegal abuse of power designed to line the pockets of Trump allies with taxpayer dollars….

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