Trump’s AG Pick Caves to Republican Rebels in Major Climbdown

Win McNamee / Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general says he is terminating the president’s $1.8 billion Jan. 6 slush fund in a dramatic capitulation to two Republican senators threatening to block his nomination. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, announced in an X post late Sunday night that the Anti-Weaponization Fund—designed to compensate Trump allies and even participants in the 2021 Capitol riots—had been “rescinded.” The move…