BREAKING: Trump SHOCKS ALL with INSANE announcement

Donald Trump just made official what has. been floating around for days, that. instead of his $10 billion lawsuit. against his own IRS, he's instead. compromising by only taking 1.776. billion dollars in the form of a slush. fund, which will go to January 6th. insurrectionists. Because after all, how. will your subsequent army of. insurrectionists know that they're in. the clear if Trump doesn't steal. taxpayer dollars to pay them out? Not. looking to bury the lead here, this is a. message to Trump supporters that if they. want to commit violence on his to help.

him rig elections, not only will they be. not prosecuted, his pardon of 1,500. insurrectionists made that clear, but. they'll actually derive a financial. benefit from doing it. Trump is. legalizing insurrection so long as it. takes place on his behalf. And of. course, he's slapping a $1.776. billion price tag on it to make this. seem patriotic. That's right, this is. what the founders of this country fought. for, a taxpayer-funded slush fund where. insurrectionists are effectively. rendered legal, which of course is.

undermined by the US Constitution. itself, where Section 3 of the 14th. Amendment expressly disqualifies. individuals from holding federal or. state office if they've engaged in. insurrection or rebellion after. previously swearing an oath to support. the Constitution. But other than that. small detail, yes, apparently. insurrection is very patriotic. Got it. Trump was asked why this should be. funded by taxpayers. Here's what he. said. >> Justice Department has this new fund. that was announced today, $1.7 billion.

Why should taxpayers pay for the January. 6th. >> Well, it's been very well received. I. have to tell you, I know very little. about it. I wasn't involved in in the. whole creation of it and. and the negotiation. But this is. reimbursing people that were horribly. treated, horribly treated. It's. anti-weaponization. They've been. weaponized. They've been in some cases. imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees. that they didn't have. They've gone. bankrupt. Their lives have been. destroyed.

And they turn out to be right. I mean, it's was a terrible period of time in. the history of our country. And they worked on it. I know the. Justice Department it's really been. working on it. very hard. There's been numerous other. occasions over the years where things. like this have been done. But these were. people that were weaponized and really. treated brutally by a system that was so. corrupt with corrupt people running it. And they're getting reimbursed for their. legal fees and the other things that. they had to suffer. >> I wasn't involved. I don't know anything.

about it. Trump is always just finding. out about these things. Never in the. loop except for every single detail in. the ballroom where he's deciding what. color grout to use. But other than that, he's just some old senile man shuffling. around the White House with no idea. what's happening even though all of the. things that are happening are his direct. priorities. How's that for convenient? He says too that it's quote very well. received meaning this $1.7 billion slush. fund. Uh. by who? The insurrectionists?

What regular American out there is like, I work all day, five days a week, 52. weeks a year. I pay my taxes expressly. so that right-wing lunatics can storm. the capital and get rich doing it. Like, people want health care. They want. housing. They want things to be. affordable. You know, the exact things. that Donald Trump promised them on the. campaign trail. And yet now their tax. dollars are going to making these. lunatics rich. And yet Trump. wants us to believe that everybody is. cheering him on. Right. Trump then.

denigrates the very concept of. weaponization which I must say is rich. considering that has been the sole. priority of this White House since day. one. And if you don't believe me, just. ask James Comey, Letitia James, Adam. Schiff, Tim Walsh, Shake a Fry, Jerome. Powell, and on and on and on. Trump is. against weaponization just like Lauren. Boebert is for appropriate behavior in. theaters. Like Trump is explaining how these. people went bankrupt from paying legal. fees. Uh.

yeah, you stormed the United. States Capitol. Did you think that that. was going to not result in prosecution? I mean, do I have to sit here and. explain to the law and order party why. smashing down windows and barging into a. building looking for Nancy Pelosi to. hang is maybe not law or order? Trump then says that the Justice. Department has been working very hard on. this. I should remind you that the Justice. Department still has not released 3. million documents from the Epstein files. despite them being due 4 and 1/2 months.

ago. Perhaps instead of handing gobs of. cash to criminals, they might want to. take care of exposing the pedophiles who. they all ran on exposing. After all, remember this? >> Everybody has Everybody in politics has. a vice that's much worse than alcoholism. is is the way that I put it. Um but we we um. >> Release the list. >> [laughter]. >> Seriously, we need to release the. Epstein list. That that is an important. thing. >> You say that the FBI has Epstein's list, they're sitting on it. That doesn't seem.

like something you should do. You're. protecting the world's foremost. predator. That seems like an evil thing. to do regardless of who may be. embarrassed in the release of that list. Why is the FBI protecting the greatest. pederast um the the largest scale. pederast in human history? >> Simple, because of who's on that list. >> You wondering why we're not hearing more. about this Epstein case? I mean, the guy was only connected to. just about every major player in the. swamp internationally. And yet you don't. hear much about it. And what the hell. are they hiding with Jeffrey Epstein? >> Nice guy.

Uh got a lot of problems coming up in my. opinion with the famous island with. Jeffrey Epstein. >> Epstein. >> You raised the question of Jeffrey. Epstein in your remarks about in the. Q&A. >> think he's got a problem. I mean. >> What do you think the problem will be? >> I I don't know, but that island was uh. really a cesspool. There's no question. about it. Just ask Prince Andrew. He'll. tell you about it. The island was an. absolute cesspool. >> Yeah, I don't think they remember. either. But look, here is the top line amid all. of this. Donald Trump became president.

by cos playing as a populist. He swore. up and down that he would focus on the. little guy. He talked about housing and. rent and groceries and eggs. And yet the. moment he took office, you would get. whiplash from the bait and switch. He. cut health care, cut food assistance, passed the tax cut for billionaires, sent the cost of everything surging. thanks to his trade war, killed farms. and manufacturing and job growth, and. sent the cost of gas surging to near. record highs because of a war that he. also swore he would avoid. Meaning. Americans are now sicker, hungrier, and. poorer than when Donald Trump came into.

office. And yet all the while, he's. managed to still find all the funding in. the world for his ballroom, for the Rose. Garden, for a new arch, for a reflecting. pool, for his new Qatari jet, and now. for his insurrectionist slush fund. Isn't that interesting? No money for. programs that regular people rely on to. survive, and yet all the billions in the. world for war and his pet projects and. monuments to himself and his political. allies. And so that tells you one thing. Trump and Republicans do not give a.

flying about you. They will say whatever they need to say. to get your vote, even though they never. had any intention of following through. with anything that they promised. You. are a stepping stone toward. consolidating power for themselves. And. the second they have it, they will. forget that you exist. So with midterms. fast approaching, remember what that. party stands for. It's not you. It's not. the little guy. It's not the forgotten. American. They've got full control of. government right now. There is nothing. stopping the Republicans from delivering. for this country if they wanted to. Not.

a single Democrat has power in the. federal government. They could have. delivered health care or food or. infrastructure or housing reform or. literally anything that they. wanted to. And yet what they landed on. was war, tax cuts for themselves, a. party room for the president, and a. payout for his criminal. insurrectionists. To say the word. populist in the same sentence as Donald. Trump or Republicans is an absolute. joke. And what's worse, his party. allowed him to do it. They have all the. power in the world to stop him for their.

own constituents, and yet not one single. person on the right has lifted a finger. These people are all there in service of. one person, and it ain't you. And don't. take my word for it. >> You can disagree with President Trump, but if you try to destroy him, you're. going to lose cuz this is the party of. Donald Trump. >> Not you, not me, not everyday Americans, not workers, not families, not children, but one person, Donald Trump. And. they're putting that on full display. right now. >> [music].

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