2 officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 sue to stop Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Uh, why did you feel like you had to file this lawsuit? Well, just actually just listening to you just say that, suing to block uh, 1.776 billion dollar payment to um, I wouldn't even say defendants, um, I would say uh, terrorists, uh, insurrectionists, and people responsible for one of the darkest days in American history. Um, it is crazy. Why do I have to sue? Why do I have to sue?

[00:00:26]Because this is what this administration is all about. It's about rewarding bad players. Uh, January 20th last year when Donald Trump was inaugurated, he forgave the insurrectionists for what they did to us, what they did to this country. He forgave them. And just yesterday they just announced that they are going to reward them for their efforts on January 6th. And, you know, like I said, it's unclear who the actual payments are going to, um, but this I think this also shows an incentive to the people who committed violence in Donald Trump's name.

[00:00:59]What makes you think that you can succeed?

[00:01:02]Well, first of all, we're we're right. I I I always feel good when, you know, we're you know, we're we're doing the right thing, uh, morally, and we the American people stand with us.

[00:01:12]Uh, I I do believe it's a very, um, the issue at hand is this is taxpayer money, and taxpayers are going to be the ones footing the bill for this. But somehow along the way Donald Trump tells us we don't have money for healthcare, for childcare, but we got millions and billions of dollars for illegal wars, or or or in this case, rewarding insurrectionists. Uh, it's not fair to the American people, it's not fair to the taxpayers.