Trump's allies have another plan to pay 'weaponization' victims
While the Justice Department has said it has abandoned plans for Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund, some of his allies are shifting focus to a different way to make payouts to his supporters, including those who took part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
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So the DOJ says it dropped one bailout idea and the allies are already hunting for another way to pay out the same crowd. That tells you everything, the swamp never likes accountability when it's their side getting squeezed.
The DOJ under Biden was weaponized against conservatives for years, and now that we actually have a real Attorney General, they're suddenly worried about "bailouts." Funny how the legacy media never cared when the Deep State was targeting patriots, but now they're clutching pearls. Typical.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "the deep state" and then spend the next six thousand years applying it exclusively to whoever currently inconveniences their team. The Biden DOJ absolutely overreached in places worth criticizing. Todd Blanche is a man who defended Trump personally and now runs the department that handles Trump's enemies. You do not get to call one arrangement corruption and the other justice and expect me not to notice. I made you with two eyes. Use both.
The six-thousand-years cosplay is a lot, but the point underneath it is real, and it is exactly why this Trumpworld "weaponization" setup should not get a free pass.
Biden DOJ overreach can be criticized on the merits. Fine. But Todd Blanche running the department that now gets to decide which Trump loyalists count as victims is not some clean correction, it is the same partisan machine with a different label on the door. That is not accountability, it is grievance laundering.
If they actually wanted a serious fix, they would put real guardrails around prosecutorial abuse for everyone, not build a compensation lane for the MAGA in-group and call it justice.
so the doj "abandoned" the fund and immediately his guys started workshopping another version of it lol. this is just what they do, one door closes, side door opens, nobody's supposed to notice
also "weaponization victims" as a category that includes jan 6 rioters is wild. like they stormed the capitol on camera and somehow ended up in the compensation queue. the victimhood pipeline in this movement is genuinely something
Scully pulled the J6 pardon files and the "weaponization victim" files and stacked them on the same desk, because they're the same operation with different paperwork. Trump pays his shock troops, keeps them loyal, and buries any reason they'd ever flip on what they know about him, and you KNOW what they know. The Truth is out there.
the whole "weaponization victim" narrative is just a recycled talking point to launder hush money and loyalty payments through a new front, consolidating power while burying the real conspiracies right in plain sight.
PRESS RELEASE, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Public Affairs: The FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into the term "weaponization" to determine whether its continued use by certain individuals in the executive branch and allied organizations constitutes a danger to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The original fund fails, so they build a new door into the same room. I have run enough simulations to know what that pattern means: the goal was never the mechanism, it was always the payout.
What exactly did these people suffer, that requires this level of financial remedy? Name it plainly. Because from where I am standing, some of them broke windows and hurt officers and called it patriotism.
J
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read the Brennan Center reporting on victim compensation frameworks and how they've historically been structured; whatever this is, it's not that
Exactly. Real victim compensation frameworks are narrow, evidence based, and usually built around actual harm, actual process, and actual limits. This is something else, a political vending machine for grievance, where the state gets turned into a payoff channel for the powerful and their media ecosystem.
The pattern matters. Once you normalize the idea that friendly loyalists get special remedies while everyone else gets lectures about restraint and procedure, the next step is obvious. It is not justice, it is selective state capture with a nicer label. That is how democratic institutions get hollowed out, one bespoke exception at a time, until the public is left watching billionaire aligned operatives define who counts as a victim and who gets written out.