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Miranda Devine: Dems can cry corruption all they want – the DOJ’s anti-weaponization fund has precedent and purpose

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The rollout of the DOJ’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” may have been botched, but the fund remains a good idea, and the hysteria from Democrats like the hypocritical Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and allied media is absurd.

It’s not unprecedented or corrupt or Trump’s personal “slush fund,” no matter how loudly they shriek.

It’s just a rebranding of an existing legal settlement fund Congress authorized decades ago, as Washington lawyer and veteran Senate oversight investigator Jason Foster points out.

Administrations of both parties have repeatedly used the DOJ’s “Judgment Fund” to settle legal claims against the federal government, and Democrat administrations have used it for far more questionable payouts than the Trump administration’s proposal to compensate genuine victims of lawfare.

The Biden DOJ paid off FBI anti-Trump plotters Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe, for instance, along with numerous convicted criminals, who alleged bad treatment by the Bureau of ­Prisons.

By contrast, Trump allies and administration officials who suffered unjustly at the hands of Joe Biden’s weaponized FBI and DOJ, like Michael Caputo, Christina Bobb and Jeff Clark, are genuinely worthy victims who should be made whole.

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