Officers beaten on Jan. 6 call Trump’s $1.8B fund ‘most brazen act of presidential corruption this century’

Two U.S. Capitol officers injured during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack sued the Trump administration to block a $1.8 billion fund aimed at compensating individuals claiming to be victims of judicial weaponization. They argue the fund would enable and reward pro-Trump rioters, whom President Trump pardoned in 2024, to organize further violence. The complaint criticizes the fund as a 'corrupt sham' and accuses Trump of creating a 'slush fund' to support insurrectionists.