Mike Pence says he hopes Trump administration will drop weaponization fund Former Vice President Mike Pence has expressed strong disapproval of the Trump administration’s new “anti-weaponization fund,” stating his hope that it will be dropped entirely. He finds the idea of taxpayer-funded payouts to individuals who assaulted police officers and vandalized the Capitol on January 6th to be unacceptable. Pence believes the Justice Department can settle issues of rights being trampled without such a fund and is confident history will accurately judge the events of January 6th, despite perceived efforts to whitewash the day.

• Mike Pence called the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization fund” unacceptable.
• The fund aims to provide taxpayer-funded payouts to those who allege the legal system has been weaponized against them.
• Pence stated that individuals who assaulted police officers and vandalized the Capitol on January 6th should not receive money from this fund.
• The fund has caused division among Republicans and led to scrapped plans for immigration enforcement funding.
• A federal judge has temporarily barred the Justice Department from proceeding with the fund.
• Pence believes there’s evidence of the administration whitewashing the events of January 6th, citing a White House timeline that blamed Capitol Police for the riot.