Few things nauseate conservatives more than watching wobbly Republicans do the Democrats’ dirty work. GOP senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina lately have delivered for the Left. They repeatedly threatened to drop an anvil on Todd Blanche, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for attorney general, unless Blanche killed what Democrats called Trump’s Revenge Fund. The Left instantly denounced Trump’s patriotically branded $1.776 billion allotment for victims of weaponized government. Predictably, Democrats deployed their rustiest cliches: Trump arranged bonuses for his “loyalists” and those involved in “January 6.” (RELATED: Beware the Renegade Caucus) Democrats predictably cough up the same exhausted lines. They are malicious, brain-dead, and have absolutely nothing positive to offer the American people. So, they channel their Trump-hating bile and put their mouths on autopilot. Maddeningly, Cornyn and Tillis did likewise. “It’s befuddling to me,” Cornyn said of Trump’s program. The less-tactful Tillis attacked it as “a payout pot for punks” and “stupid on stilts.” Cornyn and Tillis have little love for Trump. He endorsed Cornyn’s victorious primary opponent, Ken Paxton. Tillis has irked Trump by repeatedly stymying the SAVE America Act and other policies. (RELATED: Afflicted With TDS, Four Senators Kill Election Integrity) Trump’s real goal: To provide justice to those who lost their fortunes or freedom due to weaponized law enforcement. However, these Republicans should understand Trump’s real goal: To provide justice to those who lost their fortunes or freedom due to weaponized law enforcement. Cornyn and Tillis prevailed. Blanche on Monday delivered the $1.776 billion fund’s death certificate. Regardless, Trump deserves credit for trying to do right by those whom the feds have done wrong. The good news is that the Treasury Department’s Judgment Fund is alive and well. Since 1956, it has settled with and paid parties whom Washington has harmed. This well-established mechanism, enshrined in 31 U.S.C. § 1304, is ready to fly where Trump’s initiative floundered. The Judgment Fund should recompense those whom the Left persecuted during the three-year-long Russia Hoax. On Friday, via Truth Social, Trump called these people “the great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs and whose lives were unfairly and illegally destroyed by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration.” (RELATED: Hillary and Obama Out-McCarthied McCarthy) “Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history,” Trump continued. “They are suffering still, many ruined, and I felt that they should be given compensation for what has been done to them…I will always feel that these victims of government abuse should be paid back for what they were forced to endure, their lives have been ruined!” (RELATED: Peter Navarro, Lawfare, and the Death of Executive Privilege) Here are just a few of those ruined lives: Luba Avrashov appears with her late husband, Lee, in their last picture together, at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Triumph of Liberty Gala Dinner — Washington, D.C., 2017 (Courtesy of Luba Avrashov) Luba Avrashov Lee Avrashov’s widow knows few specifics about her late husband’s meetings with the Justice Department. “He was warned that sharing this information with anybody was punishable by law,” Luba Avrashov told me. Regarding baseless accusations that he helped the Kremlin subvert the 2016 election, Luba said, “He was deeply ashamed of the situation, and it struck at his pride and dignity.” She recollected watching an evening-news story on the Russia Hoax. “I urgently need a lawyer,” Lee told Luba. “Almost immediately, the phone started ringing with calls summoning him to questioning. From that moment on, his life — and ours — was turned upside down.” Russian-born U.S. citizen Leonid Avrashov’s apparent “crimes” were that he was associated with Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, and that he had a credit card from First Ukrainian International Bank. Its owner is multi-billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, reportedly Ukraine’s wealthiest man. “I would often wake up in the middle of the night to find Lee pacing the house, unable to sleep,” Luba recalled. Her husband fretted about providing for his wife and their two young children as the DOJ’s grip tightened. “His appetite disappeared. He grew nervous and irritable, and I could see the stress consuming him.” “We had no money for a proper lawyer,” Luba added. “I remember receiving calls from the bank about overdue payments on our house; foreclosure and eviction were real threats…He borrowed money from friends — at least three that I know of. I am aware of one debt of $17,000 alone.” As matters deteriorated, Luba explained, “He secretly took a night job delivering pizzas. He borrowed a friend’s car so that no one would recognize him. It was humiliating for him, and he asked me not to tell the children. He came home exhausted, complaining of pain in his leg — a sign, we later understood, of a developing blood clot.” That’s when Lee’s severe, stress-related health problems began. Luba believes that the “crushing pressure” from what Lee called “not just debts, but enormous debts” caused or at least accelerated his untimely death in April 2021. “My husband just turned 61 when he passed away,” Luba mourned. “It was colon cancer, but it was not the primary illness. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis) developed because of severe stress.” According to an October 2024 study by Sichuan University’s Qing Li, MD, PhD, “Cutting-edge research has uncovered how chronic stress disrupts the balance of gut microbiota to speed up the progression of colorectal cancer.” The Russia Hoax seemingly made Lee Avrashov worry himself right into the ground. “The legal ordeal and the debts he took on left lasting damage, both financially and emotionally,” Luba summarized. “Every sleepless night, every dollar borrowed, every humiliation he endured was the product of an investigation that was manufactured from the start. There was nothing there. He did nothing wrong. And yet he was hounded to his grave.”   Michael Caputo appears in a screenshot from his legal fund’s website, 2018 (Courtesy of Michael Caputo) Michael Caputo “I was interrogated by House and Senate intelligence committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team,” my friend of 41 years, Michael Caputo, told me. “I was never subpoenaed nor charged. I was only a ‘witness.’ But my lawyers told me it was clear that my chief tormentor, DOJ’s Andrew Weismann, was always trying to upgrade my status to a ‘subject of the investigation’ and even a ‘target,’ if he could.” This ordeal cost Caputo a bundle. “I paid attorneys about $580,000 for Democrat Russia Coup interrogations and related legal issues,” he detailed. “I raised money from hundreds of wonderful donors I never even met and sold some personal items to pay the bills. We drained our savings completely and later sold our home…Without my lawyer, former US Attorney Dennis Vacco, we would be lost.” This ordeal crippled Caputo’s business. “Several public-affairs clients left me during the investigations and never returned. Many more decided not to hire me. This forced me to close my public relations firm and appears to have cost me about $2.5 million in revenues since 2017.” All for nothing. “I was not charged with any crime by the Democrat Russia Coup investigations,” Caputo said. “Outside official proceedings, I was endlessly accused by Democrat officials and their conjugal media of colluding with Russia, but no proof was ever given.” Nonetheless, this “nothing” hammered Caputo and his loved ones. “The Democrat Russia Coup investigations destroyed my successful career, destroyed my business, nearly destroyed my family, and was particularly destructive for my daughters,” Caputo stated. “The harassment and violence which the coup plotters intentionally inspired against my family drove my cancer and forced us to leave our hometown and move to a remote location in the Everglades for our safety. We are still there.” Caputo successfully battled throat and neck cancer, which he believes was exacerbated by Russia Hoax-related anxiety. He still contends with constant, severe tinnitus, a relentless side effect of his chemotherapy. “The Democrat coup plotters wanted to stack the bodies of Trump loyalists and their families — our children — high enough that nobody ever would challenge them again,” Caputo said. “Thank God for Donald J. Trump. He beat them. He never forgot our family in the battle, and still cares for us, even today.” Former U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn speaking with attendees at the 2024 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona (Gage Skidmore/CC-BY-2.0/Wikimedia Commons) Michael Flynn Trump 45’s first national security advisor, Army Lt. General Michael Flynn, stumbled into a meat grinder after speaking with Russia’s then-ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, during Trump’s first transition period. Never mind that it’s common and sensible for incoming foreign-affairs advisors to introduce themselves to their international counterparts before taking office, especially in case a crisis explodes soon after inauguration. (RELATED: Tulsi Gabbard’s Russia Hoax Release Vindicates the Late George Neumayr) The Russia Hoax detonated Flynn’s finances. “Flynn now owes his lawyers some $5 million in fees,” New York magazine reported in March 2019. To pay these massive bills, Flynn had to sell his three-bedroom townhouse in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Asking price: $895,000. (RELATED: The Police State of James Comey: The Many Trials of Michael Flynn) Flynn faced federal prison for making false statements to the FBI about his non-criminal conversation with Kislyak. And yet an FBI report indicates that the two agents who interviewed Flynn on January 24, 2017 — Day Four of his tenure — “had the impression at the time that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying.” Trump spared Flynn from incarceration when he pardoned him on November 25, 2020. J.D. Gordon speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland (Gage Skidmore/CC-BY-SA-2.0/Wikimedia Commons)  J.D. Gordon “My Russiagate legal bills were in five figures,” about $11,000, “of which my Trump Team colleague Michael Caputo generously reimbursed the first set in 2018 from his GoFundMe effort,” affirmed J.D. Gordon, a former Trump international affairs advisor and retired Navy commander. “Follow-on bills weren’t as much since my second lawyer, a former Member of Congress, did a lot pro bono.” “The opportunity costs were worse,” Gordon lamented. “Before Russiagate, I had been on the list for Under Secretary of State … Between that salary loss and follow-on career opportunities, Russiagate cost me millions of dollars and, more importantly, another chance to serve my country.” Gordon concluded: “Financial pain was the least of my worries. Being smeared as a Russian agent by Members of Congress and the legacy media, when half the country still believes it, is far worse a fate.”   Paul Manafort’s official mugshot released by the Alexandria, Virginia Sheriff’s Office. Paul Manafort Trump’s 2016 campaign manager’s Russia Hoax legal expenses are not public, and he did not respond to requests for comment. However, the record shows that he paid the Justice Department a $200 special assessment, an $800 special assessment, a $5,000 fine, $6,164,032 in restitution, $11 million in forfeiture, and another $25,497,487.60 in restitution. Amid this financial bloodbath, Manafort surrendered his Brooklyn brownstone, a condominium in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and a 10-bedroom mansion in Bridgehampton, New York. (Stephen M. Calk, Manafort’s mortgage banker, underwent his very own cruel and unusual weaponization torture, for which President Trump should pardon him.) (RELATED: Punish or Perish) The Russia Hoax also cost Manafort something priceless: His freedom. Manafort spent nearly two years in federal prison, from June 2018 to May 2020, in solitary confinement. He then remained under house arrest during the COVID pandemic before Trump pardoned him on Dec. 23, 2020. A White House statement cited Manafort’s “otherwise blameless life,” which was disrupted by “blatant prosecutorial overreach” in “perhaps the greatest witch hunt in American history.” George Papadopoulos reveals his perspective on the political investigations surrounding President Trump in his book, Deep State Target. (Courtesy of George Papadopoulos) George Papadopoulos “I have never even traveled to Russia,” George Papadopoulos, a foreign-affairs advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign, told me. As he also explains in his chilling memoir, Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump, Papadopoulos is mystified how he got vacuumed into the Russia Hoax. “According to former Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s memo, I was under investigation for acting as ‘a foreign agent of Israel,’” Papadopoulos said. “To this day, I still never saw any evidence of what they based it on.” “I was violently arrested at Dulles Airport in D.C., after a trans-Atlantic flight, intercepted by no fewer than 10 FBI agents, and placed in shackles,” he remembered. “I believe the FBI agents involved in my case, Curtis Heide and Michael McSwain, acted at least unethically and potentially illegally. Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to a felony during the Durham probe, was also involved, as was the entire Mueller team and Democrats in the House and Senate.” “Legal fees, to my best recollection, amounted to approximately $700,000,” Papadopoulos added. “I had to wipe out all of my savings and rely on help from my family and everyday Americans. It took years to recover financially and clear my name.” To limit his agony, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to “false statements.” He paid DOJ a $100 special assessment, a $9,500 fine, and spent 14 days in prison. Trump pardoned him on Dec. 22, 2020. “I fought back, stood my ground, and kept my story the same from day one,” Papadopoulos remarked. “As a result, I now feel total and absolute vindication.” Roger Stone (right) and Michael Caputo attend Trump rally in Miami, Florida, November 2022 (Courtesy of Michael Caputo) Roger Stone Legendary political consultant Roger Stone was arrested at his Fort Lauderdale home in January 2019. A SWAT team launched a pre-dawn raid against this non-violent senior citizen, then 68, with no criminal record. Officers in SCUBA gear prowled the waters near Stone’s residence, perhaps fearing he would swim away. Magically, CNN knew about this action in advance and captured every harrowing moment on camera. The Russia Hoax turned Stone’s finances into gravel. “We literally lost everything,” he told me. “I simply ran out of cash.” “After losing our home, our savings, our insurance, and my car — and because the unconstitutional gag order placed on me by Judge Amy Berman Jackson prevented me from making a living by writing or speaking on any subject — I had to raise $2.6 million for my legal defense fund,” Stone said. “It came from over 12,000 small donors, many of them giving multiple times.” Mueller’s prosecutors told two federal judges that they suspected Stone had committed treason, conspiracy, money laundering, counterfeiting, and more. “After gaining legal access to all of my emails, text messages, and phone records, they found no evidence of any of these crimes,” Stone asserted. “Instead, they manufactured the so-called ‘process crime’ of lying under oath to Congress during my voluntary testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.” “I was then railroaded in a Soviet-style show trial in which the judge withheld exculpatory evidence from my defense attorneys,” Stone recounted. “The jury forewoman — who swore during jury selection and throughout the trial that she was not familiar with me or my case — was later revealed to have publicly attacked both me and President Trump by name for 19 months, but kept those barbs hidden on a private setting to conceal them during jury selection.” At sentencing, the judge declared: ‘You have been convicted of lying to cover up for Donald Trump.’ Yet I was neither charged with nor convicted of any such crime.” Stone would have spent up to 40 months in federal prison absent Trump’s pardon on Dec. 23, 2020. And yet Stone’s misery continues. “We still consistently receive death threats, and there have been many ugly scenes in restaurants, supermarkets, airports, and other public settings where radical leftists have threatened us with physical violence,” Stone grieved. “I cannot travel outside my immediate neighborhood — particularly out of state — without paid security, even in those instances when I am able to secure a paid speaking engagement.” It gets uglier. Stone stated: “Perhaps the lowest point of this entire ordeal was when my eldest granddaughter went into the hospital to give birth to my great-grandson, and a leftist who recognized her called her hospital room to say that he hoped her child would be stillborn.” The FBI, House and Senate intelligence committees, and the Mueller inquiry all confirmed that no American helped Russia meddle in the 2016 election. Not Trump. Not any of his supporters. These patriots did nothing wrong, other than back Trump’s presidential campaign, which was perfectly legal. But why would the Deep State tolerate perfectly lawful behavior? Compare the abuse, prison, and death heaped upon Trump’s allies — none of whom ever helped Russia influence the 2016 election — versus Hillary Clinton’s spa-like treatment by federal law enforcement. Her campaign used the Perkins Coie law firm and its associates to develop the so-called “Dirty Dossier.” It falsely accused Team Trump of Russia collusion. Its chief source? Igor Danchenko, a Russian citizen! The Federal Election Commission fined Hillary for America a paltry $8,000. For materially supporting this actual Russian collusion, the Democrat National Committee paid the FEC a $105,000 fine in March 2022. No SWAT teams. No home raids. No trials. No prison cells. No dead spouses. Avrashov, Caputo, Flynn, Gordon, Manafort, Papadopoulos, Stone, and others whom this sadistic, Democrat-run, two-track “justice” system brutalized warrant relief from the Judgment Fund. Their massive legal outlays should be reimbursed. They should collect damages for their economic and reputational losses and punitive awards for their anguish in the Democrats’ dungeon. Beyond that, these victims’ Trump-loathing oppressors (starting with former CIA directors John Brennan and John Clapper; FBI chief James Comey, and his henchmen, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weiss, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page) merit disbarment, public shredding of their law licenses, trials for abuse of power, and, if convicted, long, arduous prison sentences. (RELATED: John Brennan’s ‘Intelligence Bombshell’ That Likely Never Was) “This evidence illustrates that the FBI shielded political figures like Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton while pursuing conservatives for their beliefs, using legal process and operations that were excessive,” then-Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News. She added: “They went so far as to serve search warrants that their own Department and law enforcement officials believed were excessive.” (RELATED: Corporate Media Disregards Russia Hoax Revelations) Cornyn, Tillis, other gelatinous GOP senators, and the normally sensible WSJ Editorial Board (which falsely dubbed Trump’s project “a $1.8 billion fund to pay off MAGA friends”) should demand restitution for these innocent victims. If not via President Trump’s $1.776 billion Justice Fund, then through the Eisenhower-era federal Judgment Fund. READ MORE from Deroy Murdock: Magic Ballots Engulf Spencer Pratt Black Candidates Do Not Need Black Voters to Win Ted Turner, 1938-2026: The Mouth of the South Clams Up at Last ​Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.