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Laura Coates Live

Trump Defends DOJ’s New $1.8B Fund

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made clear Wednesday that the conduct of January 6, 2021, rioters who attacked law enforcement will be factored when the soon-to-be-set-up commission reviews applications to the anti-weaponization fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, tonight you knew this was coming.

0:04.8

President Trump doubling down on his anti-opinization fund, but January 6 officers are now suing

0:10.8

to stop it.

0:12.1

One of them is my guest tonight.

0:13.9

Plus, Jeff Bezos making some waves as he tells and says that taxing him and his fellow

0:19.5

billionaires won't make any difference in people's lives.

0:22.7

Kevin O'Leary and Bill de Blasio might as soon to say about that.

0:26.2

And later, Spencer Pratt compares himself to who else?

0:29.2

Barack Obama and his run for L.A. mayor and gets the one endorsement he likely didn't want in L.A.

0:35.1

Tonight on Laura Coates Live.

0:37.0

Thank you. likely didn't want in LA tonight on Laura Coates Live. My opening statement tonight, so you remember the swamp, the one President Trump said he would actually drain?

0:50.3

Well, his administration is doing a lot of work trying to explain what looks an awful lot like a swamp.

0:57.0

The DOJ is defending a nearly $1.8 billion anti-appetization fund, even as critics call it a political payout for his mega allies.

1:08.0

And not just Democrats have an issue with it.

1:10.0

Several Republicans say they want to stop it.

1:13.7

And now two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 are suing to shut it down. One of them,

1:20.9

Daniel Huggis, will join me in just a moment, along with former January 6 prosecutor, Brendan Ballou,

1:25.5

who filed the lawsuit on his behalf.

1:28.3

They call it the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century,

1:33.3

a taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in Trump's name.

1:42.3

And for Officer Hodges, that violence is more than words in a lawsuit.

1:47.0

He was pinned against a door at the Capitol. He was punched and kicked and crushed with the police shield

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