The Justice Department has established a more than $1.7 billion fund for victims of weaponization under Joe Biden, which President Trump said will reimburse those who faced Biden-era political persecution.
Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that the $1.776 billion weaponization fund, which was created as he dropped a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, would be “reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It’s anti-weaponization.”
A reporter asked him about the fund, nastily questioning why taxpayers should “pay for the January Sixers,” who faced horrific abuse from the Biden Justice Department. “It’s anti-weaponization,” Trump said.
“They’ve been weaponized, they’ve been, in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn’t have. They’ve gone bankrupt, their lives have been destroyed, and they turn out to be right,” he told the reporter.
“These were people that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system that was so corrupt, with corrupt people running it, and they’re getting reimbursed for their legal fees and the other things that they had to suffer.“
WATCH:
Reporter: The Justice Department has this new fund that was announced today, $1.7 billion. Why should taxpayers pay for the January Sixers?
Trump: Well, it’s been very well received, I have to tell you. I know very little about it. I wasn’t involved in, in the whole creation of it and the negotiation, but this is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It’s anti-weaponization.
They’ve been weaponized, they’ve been, in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn’t have. They’ve gone bankrupt, their lives have been destroyed, and they turn out to be right. I mean, it was a terrible period of time in the history of our country, and they worked on it.
I know the Justice Department has really been working on it very hard. There’s been numerous other occasions over the years where things like this have been done, but these were people that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system that was so corrupt, with corrupt people running it, and they’re getting reimbursed for their legal fees and the other things that they had to suffer.
Per CNN:
The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump’s allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration.
It’s an unprecedented move that would allow the president’s administration to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer money.
There appears to be few constraints on who can submit a claim to the fund. The president has broadly stated that his allies were politically targeted by the justice system, from the years-old Russian collusion investigation to the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
Its creation comes as Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit alleging that the Internal Revenue Service failed to protect Trump and the Trump Organization from an unauthorized leak of their tax returns.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump, Eric Trump, Don Jr., and the Trump Organization filed a $10 billion lawsuit in January against the IRS for leaking their tax returns.
It was revealed this month that Trump would drop the lawsuit, as well as other legal action, including a $230 million claim over the 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid and the Russia Collusion Hoax, in exchange for a public apology from the IRS and the creation of this compensation fund, which is a fraction of the cost.
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