Key DOJ Staffer Wanted to Apply to Trump’s Slush Fund (opens in new tab)

A top staffer at the Department of Justice asked to recuse himself from work related to Donald Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” so he could cash in on it. The sudden request from Patrick Davis, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, concerned his colleagues because he’d been charged with liaising with Congress in order to set up the president’s slush fund, according to two administration officials who spoke to Politico. “[Davis] has relationships with the senators, and it wa...