‘Outright theft’: legal experts decry $1.8bn Trump anti-weaponization fund

Critics from both sides and legal scholars say slush fund' is scheme that will help January 6 rioters

A legal and political firestorm is growing over the $1.776bn anti-weaponization" fund Donald Trump's justice department has launched to pay alleged victims of lawfare", but that ex-DoJ officials and legal experts call corrupt" and a slush fund" for Maga allies that benefits the president.

Congressional critics from both parties and legal scholars have attacked the fund as an opaque scheme that will improperly help January 6 insurrectionists, some of whom said they intend to apply for grants, while echoing Trump's false claims that Joe Biden's administration was weaponized" against them.