Inside Trump’s $1.776 Billion Loyalty Program

Behind the patriotic branding lies a sweeping new effort to redirect taxpayer money toward the perceived victims of Trump-era “lawfare.”

Welcome back to The Red Letter. I’ve been buried in a move, so I tapped Abi Baker to unpack what may be one of the most outrageous taxpayer-funded slush funds in modern political history. Thank you for your patience while I get settled.

$1.776 billion. That’s a very large figure, masked by its illusion of patriotism to evoke 1776, the year of the nation’s foundi…