House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) danced around the question of whether the January 6 rioters who assaulted police officers would be eligible for President Donald Trump\u2019s $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d as he appeared before reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Johnson was giving a press briefing on Capitol Hill when CNN\u2019s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju asked him if he was OK with \u201cthe ones who attacked police\u201d collecting on the $1.776 billion fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWould you be OK if January 6 rioters, the ones who were convicted, even some of the ones who attacked police, had access to these taxpayer dollars, $1.8 billion settlement that the DOJ has created the settlement fund. Would it be OK if they had access to that money?\u201d Raju asked.<\/p>\n Johnson \u2014 sighing, rolling his eyes, and shaking his head at the question \u2014 replied, \u201cWe don\u2019t know any of the details of that settlement fund. The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche testified yesterday, and he got a lot of detail. And I\u2019ll just defer to what he said. Because he obviously knows a lot more about it than I do.\u201d<\/p>\n When Raju tried to interrupt, Johnson cut in, saying, \u201cLet me tell you what he said. He said they are setting up a fund to compensate all Americans who have been the subject, the target, of lawfare or weaponization of the federal government.<\/p>\n Johnson added, \u201cAgain, that\u2019s not a partisan proposition either. Everybody should support that. He did not say who would be eligible \u2014 there\u2019s many details to be filled on that. I\u2019m not going to comment on that \u2019til it comes out.\u201d<\/p>\n The controversial settlement with the Department of Justice, which came after Trump dropped a lawsuit against the IRS, has been denounced by critics<\/a> as a \u201cslush fund.\u201d<\/p>\n Also on Wednesday, Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two police officers, filed a lawsuit<\/a> to block the Trump administration from giving a dime to the rioters who faced off against cops during the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough Trump and his cronies have been secretive about the fund\u2019s ends, reporting leaves no doubt that it will be used, among other purposes, to pay the nearly 1,600 people charged with attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n Watch above via C-SPAN.<\/p>\n The post Mike Johnson Grilled on Whether J6 Rioters Who Assaulted Cops Can Cash In on $1.8B \u2018Anti-Weaponization Fund\u2019<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) danced around the question of whether the January 6 rioters who assaulted police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[143],"tags":[1079,28009,478,22095,65,44683],"class_list":["post-79664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mike-johnson","tag-capitol-hill","tag-manu-raju","tag-mike-johnson","tag-police-officers","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-settlement-fund"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116609896067820187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}