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PF1 Monday Mini: Democrat Hypocrisy on Anti-weaponization Fund

Pod Force One

New York Post

News, News Commentary, Politics, Government

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This week's PF1 Monday Minisode is here! Miranda looks at the glaring hypocrisy of Democrats and the media toward the Justice Department's Anti-Weaponization Fund. There is one Democrat above all whose performative outrage is particularly outrageous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce One.

0:09.6

This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post.

0:15.8

Today's topic is about the hypocrisy of the Democrats, and one Democrat Senator in particular, Ron Wyden of

0:24.1

Oregon, who is leading the dishonest charge against the DOJ's anti-weaponization fund. Senator Wyden

0:32.3

poses as an accountability crusader, while expecting us to ignore the skeletons in his own closet.

0:40.9

The rollout of the DOJ's anti-weaponisation fund may have been botched, but the fund remains

0:48.1

a good idea, and the hysteria from Democrats like the hypocritical Senator Ron Wyden

0:54.1

and Allied media is absurd.

0:57.0

It's not unprecedented or corrupt or Trump's personal slush fund, no matter how loudly they shriek.

1:04.5

It's just a rebranding of an existing legal settlement fund that Congress authorized decades ago, as Washington lawyer

1:13.1

and Veterans Senate oversight investigator Jason Foster points out.

1:18.2

Administrations of both parties have repeatedly used the DOJ's judgment fund to settle legal

1:24.6

claims against the federal government, and Democrat administrations have used it

1:29.1

for far more questionable payouts than the Trump administration's proposal to compensate

1:35.3

genuine victims of lawfare. The Biden DOJ paid off FBI anti-Trump plotters Peter Stroke,

1:43.6

Lisa Page, and Andrew McCabe, for instance,

1:46.9

along with numerous convicted criminals who alleged bad treatment by the Bureau's Bureau of Prisons.

1:53.3

By contrast, Trump allies and administration officials who suffered unjustly at the hands of

1:59.1

Joe Biden's weaponized FBI and DOJ, like Michael Caputo,

2:04.1

Christina Bob and Jeff Clark, are genuinely worthy victims who should be made whole.

2:10.2

Before the rebranding, General Michael Flynn received $1.25 million from the DOJ Judgment Fund

2:16.9

to settle his civil lawsuit over the malicious

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