GOP turns on $1.8 billion slush fund for J6ers as Trump's AG says it could pay people who hurt cops - LGBTQ Nation

Senate Republicans left Congress for a month-long recess after a meeting with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Twenty-five senators told Blanche they opposed President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate alleged victims of “political weaponization” from former-President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The proposed recipients could include rioters arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when they tried to disrupt the Senate’s certification of the 2020 election results. Blanche said Trump does not support assaulting law enforcement, but people who injured police officers could still apply. Reports described the meeting as hostile, with most senators opposing the fund. Supporters pledged to apply, including Enrique Tarrio, Mike Lindell, and George Santos. Two police officers sued to block the fund, and a Capitol police officer questioned why attackers of police would be paid.

"Senate Republicans left Congress today for a month-long recess, following an explosive meeting in which 25 of them told acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that they opposed President Donald Trump's proposed $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate alleged victims targeted by "political weaponization" from former-President Joe Biden's Department of Justice."

"Blanche recently claimed that even though Trump "does not stand for assaulting law enforcement," people who injured police officers that day could still apply for the slush funds. According to reports, Blanche's Thursday meeting with Senate Republicans was "incredibly hostile" and "didn't go well" - one person familiar with the meeting called it a "s**t show.""

"These so-called "victims" would include rioters arrested for storming the Capitol building during the attempted January 6, 2021 insurrection. The rioters attempted to disrupt the Senate's certification of the 2020 election results."

"Two police officers attacked during the riots filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the fund from being created. Daniel Hodges, a Capitol police officer who was repeatedly assaulted during the riots, told NPR, "Why would you pay people who attacked the police at the Capitol of the United States who tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power? Why woul"

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