Trump’s Shadow Army: How a Presidency Built a Force of Its Own
The administration has never used the word “paramilitary.” It hasn’t had to. A $170 billion enforcement surge, masked agents in unmarked vehicles, repeated federalizations of the National Guard, threats to invoke the Insurrection Act — and now a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded compensation pool that the police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 are formally calling a slush fund for paramilitary groups — have done the work. Civil liberties lawyers, federal judges, historians, and members of Congress are finally saying what the architecture itself plainly is.
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