{"id":23033,"date":"2026-05-20T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-wont-say-whether-jan-6-rioters-will-be-eligible-for-new-lawfare-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:02:10","slug":"johnson-wont-say-whether-jan-6-rioters-will-be-eligible-for-new-lawfare-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-wont-say-whether-jan-6-rioters-will-be-eligible-for-new-lawfare-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson won’t say whether Jan. 6 rioters will be eligible for new ‘lawfare’ fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson refused to rule out whether individuals convicted as part of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol would be eligible to receive money from the Trump administration\u2019s new \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund” \u2014 or say whether he would oppose a scenario where they would qualify.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know any of the details of that settlement fund,\u201d Johnson told reporters at a news conference Wednesday morning, pointing to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche\u2019s testimony before the Senate. \u201cHe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday hearing intended to cover the president\u2019s budget request for the Justice Department, Blanche also refused<\/a>to say whether those who assaulted Capitol Police would be eligible for money in the newly-created account. He said the payouts would be determined by members of a commission overseeing the fund, who are selected by the attorney general and have yet to be named.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not say who will be eligible,\u201d Johnson said of Blanche. \u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on that until it comes up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $1.8 billion account was announced on Monday as part of a settlement with President Donald Trump in his lawsuit against the IRS. Trump had sued for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns. Democrats quickly cast it as a slush fund intended to enrich allies of the president, and even Senate Republicans have signaled skepticism.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson refused to rule out whether individuals convicted as part of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol would be eligible to receive money from the Trump administration\u2019s new \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund” \u2014 or say whether he would oppose a scenario where they would qualify. \u201cWe don\u2019t know any of the details of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}