Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn on Him (opens in new tab)

Let’s acknowledge this up front: It’s good to see that Senate Republicans have—for the time being, anyway—forced Donald Trump to back off plans for a $1.8 billion slush fund for allies and insurrectionists. Trump suspended the idea after Republicans made it clear that they won’t pass funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement without legislative language starkly limiting the fund or effectively nixing it entirely.So, yep: Shockingly, it turns out that some level of Trumpian corruption is...