Donald Trump is trying to seize your taxpayer dollars for a thug fund, that's what I call it,

to basically further reward violent criminals, seditionists, and others potentially from the January 6th insurrection.

It's a huge deal. It's already starting to get some attention and some Republican pushback.

This is a breakdown video where I'm going to talk about why this is worse than other scandals, poses a real threat to future on democracy, and there are things that can be done about it. In fact, coming up, I'll have Andrew Weissman, who was in the Mueller probe, a DOJVet, to talk about it. But let's go through what this is and what it isn't. Even some critics of this news, it first broke an ABC report, and I do the news here in MS Now, and we were

like covering it as a leak, and then it became officialized. But even critics have called this

an IRS settlement or something for Trump to help people who face problems with the government.

That's the cover story. That's not what this is. I mean, that's really kind of propaganda.

This is a fund for violent thugs,

and it's to try to continue to rebuild the architecture

of Trump's failed insurrection and coup from last time.

And that's really bad.

And when you look at why Trump wants a thug fund,

it's not to help people with money.

I mean, this is someone who famously stiffed his own lawyers and employees

We covered this and

You have Michael Cohen and others who've said out loud, hey, he was completely

Stiffing me, right? So this isn't someone who's even if it's not his money say it's taxpayer money who wants to help people that way

This is about the fact that last time he lost a presidential election, Donald Trump in 21, tried these different plots. And I'm not going to do all of them in this breakdown, but you might recall, they filed lawsuits. They wanted the vice president to say that the election wasn't certified so that they would create some extra controversy. They hope that might be like a bank shot.

They asked state legislators to overrule the votes in states where Trump lost, which no

politician was going to do. Republicans stood up to him on that. They asked DOJ to make fraud

claims. There was a bunch of things. In the end, when a lot of those failed, they turned to the mob that Trump gathered in Washington,

that turned violent.

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