"In the second term, the Justice Department no longer sets itself at a polite distance from the baseless allegations shared by the president in his late-night Truth Social posts. This week, DOJ announced an “anti-weaponization” fund of dubious legality, intended to pay back victims of “weaponization and lawfare”—an apparent reference to prosecuted January 6 insurrectionists. In language that could have been written by Trump himself, the press release derides “the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax.” The dollar amount of the fund, $1.776 billion, seems selected more for symbolism than for utility.
DOJ is now very much an active participant in today’s conspiracy-theory ecosystem. On X, official DOJ accounts and those of the department’s leaders produce a steady stream of images, clips, and one-liners in the apparent hope of drawing in MAGA influencers. These posts, light on facts and heavy on exaggeration and outrage, echo far-fetched ideas already popular on the right and help seed new narratives—part of a give-and-take relationship in which DOJ both feeds and responds to conspiracy theories."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/doj-conspiracy-theorists-trump/687246/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zElTh7fOGmQSPq7YPxt4Do
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