Rachel Abrams

Like, who are we talking about here?

I think to a lot of people, though, the idea that somebody who stormed the Capitol on January 6th could get paid by the government would be shocking, to put it mildly.

Like, we are talking about, in some cases, convicted criminals who could theoretically get money from a government that they attacked.

Is that right?

Yeah.

It would also, by the way, explain some of the reaction that we have heard to this announcement about this money that we've seen from both sides of the aisle.

I want to ask about President Trump himself and whether he is going to benefit from this.

He's obviously the one who sued the IRS, right?

So can he apply for this fund?

He might avoid giant tax bills to the tunes of tens of millions of dollars is what you're saying.

Is there anything that anybody in Congress or anybody for that matter can do to stop this if they find it objectionable?

I don't think I'm going out on a limb here by saying that most people probably did not even know that this pot of money existed for the DOJ to use until this week, probably.

So you are in a good position to kind of help us make sense of this.

Like, what should we make of the fact that this money is now being used in this way?

Just to bring it back to where we started, what this represents is also not just using the DOJ to punish enemies, but using it to reward allies.

Andy Duren, thank you so much.

We'll be right back.

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