Trump’s $1.8B revenge fund hits a court red light

Trump built the Anti-Weaponization Fund like a political payback machine: $1.776 billion, a five-person claims panel, and a pitch that his allies were victims of lawfare. Then the machine hit Washington’s least cinematic obstacle: Senate Republicans flinched, some allies reportedly told the White House to scrap it, and a federal judge temporarily froze the whole thing. That is the problem with selling revenge as public policy — eventually somebody asks who gets the receipt. For now, the fund meant to prove the system was weaponized has been disarmed by paperwork.