Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of Trump supporters sued on Wednesday to block anyone — including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters — from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for people who claim to be victims of politically motivated prosecutions.
The officers’ attorneys filed the federal lawsuit a day after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the fund’s creation during a congressional hearing. Blanche, a personal attorney for President Donald Trump before joining the Justice Department, wouldn’t rule out the possibility that rioters who assaulted police on Jan. 6 would be eligible for fund payouts.
The lawsuit claims the government’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is an illegal slush fund that Trump will use to “finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.” It describes the fund’s creation as “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century” and calls for dissolving it.
“No statute authorizes its creation, the settlement on which it is premised is a corrupt sham, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law,” the suit says.
The fund stems from a settlement of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns. It’s designed to compensate those who believe they were mistreated by prior administrations’ Justice Department. Decisions on payouts will be made by a five-member commission appointed by the attorney general.
Doesn’t Congress control purse strings? How do these checks from OUR account get written?
FYI There are homeless veterans who fought for the US
Nope let’s give it to the pedos
NO NO NO!
Those pedophiles that showed up to try to overturn a free and fair election by beating on cops should totally get paid yoooge $$$ because the Democrats were so mean to them, the poor widdle tweedums! They weren’t able to commit more crimes on children when they were put away into prison as political prisoners of the Vast Liberal Conspiracy of the Deep State!
Thanks to white jaysus that the nasty woman that is Kamala didn’t get into office, now we get to let Freedom Ring!
Yeah, like, the insurrectionists get payouts, do the guards that stood on the line to protect the nation’s democratic institutions get something too or how does that work?
Nope, real patriots need not apply in the Bizarro Universe that is conservativeland.
Only completely fake patriots will be getting this money that is stolen from the taxpayers.
No, they do not
The Anti-Weaponization Fund, they are not even trying to hide it. They could as well call it The Jan 6. Army Fund.
They’re coming for our guns?
Yes. Proceed with that in mind.
Loud and clear.
If you’re trans, absolutely.
The real treasure in the settlement is that it gives forever immunity to Trump and his family from all tax issues, and probably everything else. You know that if they try to charge him for anything, he’s going to claim this agreement covers it, even if it has nothing to do with taxes.
