Trump defends fund to pay ‘great American Patriots’ who attacked the U.S. Capitol to overturn an election

Source: All Headlines | TucsonSentinel.com · Published: 2026-08-01

President Donald Trump defended his highly criticized, nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” settlement fund on social media and in a Cabinet meeting Friday, as two key Republican senators withheld support for the president’s nominee for attorney general over Trump’s refusal to formally end the pot of money.