Donald Trump has long complained that Democratic “lawfare” is unfairly prosecuting conservatives. That complaint shifted toward alleged corruption after Trump’s acting attorney general Todd Blanche approved a nearly $2 billion slush fund to compensate conservatives facing prosecution, including January 6 rioters and people who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The plan could also cover Trump and family members. Police officers injured on January 6 sued to stop the scheme, and a Treasury Department lawyer resigned in protest. The administration supports the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” with Blanche stating that government machinery should never be weaponized against Americans, while critics argue the rhetoric obscures who is actually targeted.
"Donald Trump has been complaining about Democratic “lawfare” for years now, a term he uses to imply that conservatives - like himself - getting prosecuted for their crimes is fundamentally unfair, an abuse of the legal system. That whining, though, took a turn towards abject corruption when Trump got his acting attorney general and former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to sign off on a nearly $2 billion slush fund to compensate conservatives who faced prosecution over the past several years, including the January 6 rioters, people like Tina Peters who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, and potentially Trump and members of his family."
"People, like police officers who were injured on January 6, are already suing to stop the scheme, and a top Treasury Department lawyer resigned in protest. But the administration is standing behind Trump's “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” “The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American,” Blanche said. These are words that are hard to parse if taken at face value. Of course, the “machinery of government” will be “weaponized” against some Americans! Law enforcement officers literally carry weapons!"
"But what he meant was that those weapons are being used on the wrong people, something he won't say explicitly because fascist rhetoric involves making statements that refute one another as if they are universal truths and demanding the listener not point out the contradictions. Conservatives - or Christian cis straight white men - are not a historically oppressed minority, and they aren't being targeted by the criminal justice system."
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