A Metastasizing Scandal: It's imperative to keep turning up the heat on the Trump-Blanche slush fund swindle.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Harry Litman
‪@harrylitman.bsky.social‬

"The deepest offense here is not the legal violations—grave as they are—but the unconscionable affront to the American people. That affront operates on two distinct levels."

A Metastasizing Scandal
It’s imperative to keep turning up the heat on the Trump-Blanche slush fund swindle.
harrylitman.substack.com
1:45 PM · May 23, 2026

"The deepest offense here is not the legal violations—grave as they are—but the unconscionable affront to the American people. That affront operates on two distinct levels."

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) 2026-05-23T17:45:01.739411473Z

[sop]

1. Litman's substack article is a must read.

"Trump’s underlying claims, even if they could be brought, were worth at most a few thousand dollars under the governing statute, which caps damages at $1,000 per unauthorized disclosure. In return, the public pays as much as $2 billion or more for the dismissal of a worthless lawsuit. That dwarfs the payouts in the Teapot Dome scandal—where, moreover, the government at least got some oil in return. The art of the deal, indeed."

[LearnedHand]

5. I just subscribed on the strength of this article

[Easterncedar]

2. Our Maine paper says the fund is legal and can't be stopped

Dammit.

We can make the backlash hurt the grifter in chief at least.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Where did your Maine paper go to law school? NT

[dweller]

4. The link above leads to part 2

Here is part 1

https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/trump-reaches-a-new-low




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[lees1975]

6. How do we stop this? And who will stop it?

Seems like this stuff just keeps happening and happening and happening....