{"id":74577,"date":"2026-06-07T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/trump-refuses-to-rule-out-using-anti-weaponization-fund-for-capitol-rioters-who-attacked-police\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:55:35","slug":"trump-refuses-to-rule-out-using-anti-weaponization-fund-for-capitol-rioters-who-attacked-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/trump-refuses-to-rule-out-using-anti-weaponization-fund-for-capitol-rioters-who-attacked-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump refuses to rule out using \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund for Capitol rioters who attacked police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says \u2018I\u2019d pay the kind of money they deserve\u2019 amid questions over his administration establishing fund<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> declined on Sunday to definitively rule out compensating individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers when his supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-capitol-breach\">attacked<\/a> the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 toward the end of his first presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did that in an interview on NBC News\u2019s Meet the Press, where he spoke in support of what his administration calls an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/trumps-anti-weaponization-slush-fund-allies\">\u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund<\/a>, arguing that people who entered the Capitol while Congress was preparing to certify Joe Biden\u2019s victory over him in the 2020 presidential election had been treated unfairly by prosecutors and should receive compensation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/07\/trump-january-6-anti-weaponization-fund\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says \u2018I\u2019d pay the kind of money they deserve\u2019 amid questions over his administration establishing fund Donald Trump declined on Sunday to definitively rule out compensating individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers when his supporters attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 toward the end of his first presidency. Trump &#8230; <a title=\"Trump refuses to rule out using \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund for Capitol rioters who attacked police\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/trump-refuses-to-rule-out-using-anti-weaponization-fund-for-capitol-rioters-who-attacked-police\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump refuses to rule out using \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund for Capitol rioters who attacked police\">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-74577","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\/74577","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=74577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}