Take heart, Utahns, in the news that the stench arising from Donald Trump’s White House may finally have become too much for some of the president’s fellow Republicans.

Utah’s Sen. John Curtis was exactly right to state that the president’s $1.8 billion slush fund — taxpayers’ money aimed at rewarding, among others, the traitors who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 — includes “nothing to like.”

Curtis went on to say, “I think it’s fair to say that the Republican senators, as a group, are very unhappy with it.”

That’s putting it mildly. But at least one member of Utah’s congressional delegation is putting it.

Trump sued the IRS because one of its contractors leaked one of his past tax returns — the kind of thing presidents and presidential candidates usually release on their own — and won a settlement negotiated with people who work for him. It includes a huge pile of your tax money to reimburse Jan. 6 criminals as well as a promise never to audit Trump, his businesses or his relatives ever again.

Which means that Trump, his businesses and relatives never have to pay federal income taxes again. It’s corruption on a scale never before seen on the national level.

Before this is over, we will need a lot more from a lot more Republicans. Hopefully, this statement from Curtis will give others courage for more of these types of remarks.

We take what we can get. At least for starters.

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