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Tue Jun 2, 2026, 02:37 PM 20 hrs ago

'Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump?'

"Fool Me a Thousand Times …"

"A confusing mishmash of reporting Monday afternoon inadvertently revealed that Donald Trump can still play Congress and the press like fools."

"The flurry of reporting, mostly from Capitol Hill, was about whether the political heat around the corrupt 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' had become too much to stomach, especially for GOP senators. The vague news, largely attributed to unnamed White House sources, was that Trump was signaling he 'plans to drop,' 'pause,' 'retreat,' 'backtrack,' and 'back off' from the slush fund."

"Adding an absurdist twist to the afternoon, the Trump DOJ put out a meaningless statement that it would abide by a court order blocking the slush fund."

"Note that all the uproar yesterday only dealt with the slush fund — and only with the political furor over the slush fund. That represents only part of the corrupt scheme to settle Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, which has three main elements:"

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/will-we-never-learn-the-lessons-of-trump

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