{"id":73771,"date":"2026-05-20T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trumps-1-8b-anti-weaponization-fund-draws-outrage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:18","slug":"trumps-1-8b-anti-weaponization-fund-draws-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trumps-1-8b-anti-weaponization-fund-draws-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s $1.8B \u2018Anti-Weaponization Fund\u2019 Draws Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is defending what it calls its \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, using $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to pay Trump allies who say they were wrongly prosecuted by the Biden administration, and is not ruling out compensating convicted Jan. 6 rioters. On Capitol Hill, Democrats grilled acting Attorney General and former Trump personal lawyer Todd Blanche. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is defending what it calls its \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, using $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to pay Trump allies who say they were wrongly prosecuted by the Biden administration, and is not ruling out compensating convicted Jan. 6 rioters. On Capitol Hill, Democrats grilled acting Attorney General and former Trump personal lawyer Todd &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s $1.8B \u2018Anti-Weaponization Fund\u2019 Draws Outrage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trumps-1-8b-anti-weaponization-fund-draws-outrage\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s $1.8B \u2018Anti-Weaponization Fund\u2019 Draws Outrage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}