{"id":1384,"date":"2026-08-01T20:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:03:48","slug":"trump-vows-to-restore-anti-weaponization-fund-while-tillis-slams-it-as-a-payout-pot-for-punks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Trump vows to restore &#8216;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#8217; while Tillis slams it as a &#8216;payout pot for punks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26212719114505-e1785606732943.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to\u00a0push forward with a fund to compensate\u00a0his allies if two Republican holdouts will not support his nominee for attorney general, injecting fresh uncertainty into a\u00a0Senate confirmation vote planned for next weekand underscoring once more his interest in securing payouts for supporters who feel unjustly persecuted.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump asserted in his Truth Social post that he would keep acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his current role and press ahead on the \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d if Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina refuse to back the former federal prosecutor who was key member of Trump\u2019s defense team when the Republican battled four indictments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration needs their votes\u00a0but both lawmakers have protested Blanche\u2019s selection because of a lawsuit settlement that created a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who feel mistreated by the criminal justice system and provided Trump and family members with immunity from tax audits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a sign of apparent progress Friday, Trump pronounced the fund \u201cdead.\u201d As negotiations continued into the night, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, rescheduled a committee vote for Blanche that had been postponed earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for the committee said Grassley, R-Iowa, would like to see Blanche confirmed before the August recess and that putting the Tuesday vote on the calendar \u201cgives more time for the White House to secure the votes for the President\u2019s nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But by Saturday morning, those plans were in jeopardy with a new announcement from Trump that appeared to put the fund back on the table \u2014 and dinged the two senators who are leaving Capitol Hill when their terms end in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn\u2019t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren\u2019t going to approve Todd Blanche, one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard\u201d to restore the fund. The president insisted, as he previously has, that the fund \u201ctakes care of those who have been so badly treated\u201d during the administrations of Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tillis, who is\u00a0retiring, took note of the president\u2019s turnabout by saying in a post on X that despite Trump\u2019s comments Friday, he \u201cclearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully, we can resolve this by Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blanche had said at a hearing two months ago that the anti-weaponization fund would not move forward after Republican senators revolted and held up an immigration funding bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Tillis and Cornyn, who\u00a0lost reelection\u00a0this year after Trump endorsed his primary opponent, said they want to ensure that the White House does not reverse course, especially as Trump continues to argue that a fund is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Justice has provided the senators with language that says Blanche\u2019s May 18 order establishing the \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d is \u201crescinded and shall have no force or effect,\u201d according to a document reviewed by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cornyn and Tillis have said they also want some clarifications on a separate piece of the settlement that would grant Trump and members of his family immunity from tax audits. Cornyn said this week that it was his understanding that the audits could extend to more than 100 different Trump organization subsidiaries into the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTodd Blanche said it was limited to the parties to the litigation \u2014 and it was retrospective, not prospective,\u201d Cornyn said. \u201cAnd all we\u2019re doing is asking them to put that in writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Trump #vows #restore #AntiWeaponization #Fund #Tillis #slams #payout #pot #punks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Satu&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2722,2720,137,2725,2726,2727,361,2724,2723,357,2721],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-antiweaponization","tag-department-of-justice","tag-fund","tag-payout","tag-pot","tag-punks","tag-restore","tag-slams","tag-tillis","tag-trump","tag-vows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump vows to restore &#039;Anti-Weaponization Fund&#039; 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