They're going to give your tax dollars to actual goddamn cop killers. That is what they're doing. They're not pretending that they're not going to and they are blocking any attempt to stop them from doing exactly that. See, a Democrat wanted to make sure that when Donald Trump's [00:00:15] got his multi billion dollar white grievance, reparation fund or whatever. Okay, that's insane. But let's at least stop the cop killers from getting it. no, that was actually voted down. They lost out. because Republicans, this isn't just Trump, this isn't just Todd Blanch, Republicans [00:00:33] in Congress want to make sure that people who tried to crush the skulls of cops on January 6th get millions of your tax dollars. And here is Representative Jim McGovern to explain the amendment and what happened. I move the committee at a new section to the rule providing immediate [00:00:51] consideration of HR 7711, the no rewards for January 6 rioters act. So this bill would prohibit the use of federal funds to compensate individuals who were prosecuted for their involvement in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 06, 2021. Additionally, my motion would self [00:01:10] execute an amendment that would require the Attorney General of the United States disclose any payments made by the so called anti weaponization fund, which was created by the corrupt settlement agreement between Donald Trump and his own administration. This secret slush fund. should be an outrage [00:01:27] to every American, no matter your politics. I would urge a yes vote on my motion and I yield back. The question is on the amendment. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed say no. The noes have it, the amendment's not agreed to. Yeah, the nose has [00:01:45] been not great too. We're just gonna give millions of dollars. You're gonna, you, I'm talking to you dear viewer, you're gonna work your entire life. You're gonna slave away in a job you hate your entire life. And they're gonna take your tax dollars and it's gonna be more than [00:02:05] you'll make in your entire life combined. And they're gonna hand it to people who came down and tried to end democracy. Hundreds of them, thousand of 1500 of them. People who've gone on to commit other crimes, people who went on to sexually assault children are going to be [00:02:20] handed a check more than you'll make in your entire life of thankless toil. That is what Donald Trump is making happen. That's what Todd Blanchett signed off on. And that's what all those Republicans just agreed to. Now, you can debate which makes it worse that the Republicans in Congress actually wanna do this or just that the Republicans in Congress know that [00:02:40] if they blocked that amendment, they'd lose their jobs in the next primary. But honestly, I don't care. I think it's both really bad. Now it's to say that this can't be stopped. There is now a lawsuit. Some of the January 6 officers who these MAGA rioters tried to murder, they are suing over this. But I don't know, it's the Trump DOJ, it's the Trump Supreme [00:03:01] Court. So I don't have a lot of faith in it. Sharon, what do you think? I don't either, but I don't know why there's not more lawsuits. I don't know why it has to be Harry Dunn and others who faced the horrific. disgusting mob that day. As you said, there's a way to stop [00:03:17] this. This part of my brain said, no, it's not gonna work. This part of my brain said, but why aren't we fighting more? It's just gross. It's just absolutely insane that we have a Congress sitting there not doing more. I don't want any more interviews. I want [00:03:37] action. They should stay there all summer long. And do whatever it is that they do to get rid of this now, all of it. Don't parse it, no piecemeal, all of it, including Donald Trump. It's just sick. Yeah, and let's just briefly mention JD Vance, again, fine with [00:03:59] all of this. 100 % this is going to be hung around his head too. He was asked about this and he said, Republicans can apply for it. Democrats can apply for it. As you know, the President of United States has partnered a number of Democrats who he felt were actually subject to this law fair. No, he's let some Democratic fraudsters and billionaire con men out because [00:04:18] he has more class loyalty than he does ideological loyalty. That is not a point in Trump's favor. That is very much to his detriment. I mean, if Hunter Biden wants to apply for this particular fund, he is welcome to. The people that would get the money are people. some of whom have been prosecuted completely disproportionate to any crime they've ever committed. mean, [00:04:35] all they tried to do was end democracy and murder cops. And you guys are making such a federal case about it, God. So just bear in mind, he's fine with this. He's fine with billions of your tax dollars going to child rapists and cop killers. That's what JD Vance just signed [00:04:52] off on. And just as a little side note, I apologize in advance. What does any of this slush fun thing have to do with a guy leaking Donald Trump's tax returns? Like in any way at all. [00:05:09] It's not actually a settlement. We're just using that term, but let's pretend it was. What does that have to do with the tax thing? How are any of these people who are gonna get this money connected in any way to Donald Trump's tax returns being released? Which I'll remind you, he swore for years he would voluntarily release, but he was lying to you, he was never [00:05:27] gonna do that. Further issue. It's $1.776 billion. Why? Why is it $1.776 billion? Why not $2 billion? Could it have been $10 billion? Could it have been $100 billion? Could it be a trillion [00:05:44] dollars? This is not a rhetorical question. We had no input in it. So could it have been Congress had no input? The judiciary has no input Trump's personal lawyers and Trump decided. And right now, it's going to be supposedly one time payments to cop killers and insurrectionists. [00:06:01] Did it have to be that? Could it be a monthly stipend? Could it be UBI for fascists? Payments to right wing media that feel that they've been slighted? Could it be permanent support for right wing militias? Could it be payment for a ballroom or a statue or an arch, maybe a [00:06:19] new golf course for Donald Trump? The establishment of Trump TV, the perfect propaganda he's always wanted. Could it have gone to that instead of to the insurrectionists? And if your answer is no, why? Again, there's no process for this. Not even the Republicans in Congress had anything [00:06:37] to do with any of this and none of this has to do with the taxes. How is establishing an arch or Trump TV in any way less connected to the tax thing than giving money to the insurrectionists? None of those insurrectionists had anything to do with Donald Trump's taxes. It is utterly [00:06:53] and completely arbitrary. The nature of the settlement, the amount of money, the people who are party to it, it's totally arbitrary. And just Donald Trump and his personal lawyer had any input in it whatsoever. And so what possible cause could you have to claim any [00:07:10] limits on what he could claim that he's able to do if he gets away with this? And I'll remind you, it's not one and done. I'll get rid of my IRS thing and then I get this settlement. He's suing the federal government in other cases as well. Maybe they'll do a settlement for [00:07:25] those. Maybe he'll get his golf course. Maybe he'll get his militias. And so further question, can President AOC set up a fund to compensate those who lost their jobs, who went to jail for jokes about Charlie Kirk online? There's some weaponization for you. It could be a First [00:07:41] Amendment defense fund, $10 billion from AOC. And you know what? Right wing media has been really tough. The Trump has been really tough on progressive media. So we're going to subsidize them going forward. The damage report is going to get a monthly check in taxpayer dollars. [00:07:58] Now you say that's crazy and obviously AOC is an ethical person, she would never do that. But how is that in any actual qualitative way crazier than anything that we're seeing right now? Can President Gavin Newsom establish a fund of $1 trillion? to transfer that money [00:08:14] to solar and wind companies that feel like Donald Trump has waged a crusade against them. And they have unfairly for ideological reasons lost business share to the Chinese over the past five years. How is that any crazier than what is being done right now? And as a bigger general issue, what is our government and what is our constitution if the president can say, [00:08:34] Congress, you're done, your services will not be needed? I don't need a law, I don't need a regulation, you don't have the power of the purse. I decide what money will be spent, how much, to who, under what circumstances. If this is allowed to continue, what is our government [00:08:52] at this point? And just as a note to the media who had some interesting rhetorical questions in the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. If you are wondering why would a deranged person try to take out Donald Trump, I will say first of all, they [00:09:08] should not be. But as just a rhetorical exercise, a hypothesis. If Donald Trump is telling these people, there is nothing inside of the system that can constrain me. The Supreme Court has said, I literally cannot break the law. And it doesn't matter to the DOJ if I stole the [00:09:24] classified documents, or if I blackmailed the government of Ukraine, or if I did the insurrection. I'm never gonna pay any money for having raped E. Jean Carroll. It doesn't matter if the Trump organization did hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud. I'm never going to pay a penny and in fact, You can't even audit me and I get to pay my buddies and I'm going to steal all of [00:09:43] this money and neener, neener, neener, there's nothing in the system that can stop me. What might a deranged person be led to believe after all of that? Again, they shouldn't do anything. But in a country of 300 million, somebody is going to see this and think there's nothing [00:10:01] that can be done legally. There's nothing that can be done in the system anymore, but something has to be done. They shouldn't do anything, Sharon, but somebody occasionally is going to try to. What do you think? Yeah, I think it's a cousin of martial law. Really, what [00:10:17] you're talking about. If he can do all this, then there are no real laws, and maybe there's not any real crimes. That's what it feels like. You want to talk about the money in Congress? I look at Hexeth, who brought his smarmy butt and sat there last week or whenever. They're [00:10:34] all running together and won't release the money to Ukraine. that Congress appropriated. He's already not doing the things that he doesn't want to do. And we will see a flurry more of these bizarre settlements in the run up to November because he's got to consolidate [00:10:53] power. He's going to give a few of these uh child molesting, bonehead. mean, some of these people that were locked up for January 6th then went on to do horrific things on top of that. They reoffended. He'll give a couple of them the money. some of them the money cuz he's [00:11:08] got to energize this army of treasonous bastards. That's really what he's doing here, but the rest will be stolen. Because if we don't know anything about the process and who gets it and who decides and things get to be confidential and only Donald Trump and something about Todd Blanch and some counsel, then it's another way for him and his friends to just steal it. [00:11:28] They're not even gonna give it to these poor suckers that rightly were barely held accountable for what they did. Yeah, no, oh 100%. I mean, all that has been done since then has been to send every possible signal that when I call on you to take a gun and to stop me from [00:11:48] being hauled out of the White House, you need to do it. Because if you do it and if we're successful, you're not going to prison. In fact, you might get paid for it. That is what Donald Trump is doing. And I don't know if I've seen any Republicans speak out against that. And [00:12:05] after Thomas Massey losing, they're even more scared than they already were. Republican senators lost a primary too. They're not gonna stand up to that even as they see the Constitution being shredded in real time.