{"id":73782,"date":"2026-05-20T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/january-6-police-officers-sue-trump-over-1-8bn-fund-alleging-presidential-corruption\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:01:09","slug":"january-6-police-officers-sue-trump-over-1-8bn-fund-alleging-presidential-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/january-6-police-officers-sue-trump-over-1-8bn-fund-alleging-presidential-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"January 6 police officers sue Trump over $1.8bn fund, alleging \u2018presidential corruption\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Capitol police officer and DC officer allege Trump\u2019s $1.8bn fund unlawfully rewards January 6 rioters and allies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/20\/donald-trump-republicans-midterms-primaries-kentucky-redistricting-raul-castro-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two police officers who clashed with rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have sued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> over plans to create a $1.776bn \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund.<\/p>\n<p>The fund, which critics have argued is essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/justice-department-announces-a-1-7-billion-anti-weaponization-fund-fund-to-compensate-trump-allies\">a slush fund<\/a>, is set to compensate allies of the US president who he claims were victims of prosecutorial overreach.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/20\/jan-6-police-sue-trump-anti-weaponization-fund\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Capitol police officer and DC officer allege Trump\u2019s $1.8bn fund unlawfully rewards January 6 rioters and allies US politics live \u2013 latest updates Two police officers who clashed with rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have sued Donald Trump over plans to create a $1.776bn \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund. The &#8230; <a title=\"January 6 police officers sue Trump over $1.8bn fund, alleging \u2018presidential corruption\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/january-6-police-officers-sue-trump-over-1-8bn-fund-alleging-presidential-corruption\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about January 6 police officers sue Trump over $1.8bn fund, alleging \u2018presidential corruption\u2019\">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-73782","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\/73782","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=73782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}