Sen. Thom Tillis took Trump to task for trying to get his slush fund codified into law just a day after he declared it “dead.”
As MS Now’s Jacob Soboroff explained in the clip above:
SOBOROFF: So just a few hours ago, President Trump took to Truth Social to proclaim that his controversial so-called anti-weaponization fund is back on the table. This is what he wrote in part:
If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t endorse them, they lost and quit respectively, aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche, then I will keep Todd as acting AG and push hard to get the anti-weaponization bill PASSED! Todd Blanche was a voice of reason. It will immediately be back on the table and I will get it done.
OK, let’s back up a little bit. This anti-weaponization fund essentially amounts to a slush fund that would funnel money to Trump allies who say they have been wronged by the Justice Department. And that could include January 6th rioters.
Trump’s fixation on this slush fund, which a judge has already ruled void, by the way, is standing in the way of Todd Blanche becoming the next attorney general, becoming confirmed.