The same people who spent four years cheerfully weaponizing the federal government against Donald Trump and his supporters are now suing to make sure nobody ever gets compensated for it. Retired Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges filed a federal lawsuit in the District of Columbia on Wednesday to block the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund before a single dollar goes out the door.
Let that marinate. The government persecutes people for years, and when someone finally sets up a fund to make it right, the persecutors lawyer up. Truly inspiring stuff.
The fund was announced on Monday by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who said it would "provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare." In other words, the Department of Justice is finally admitting what we've all known — that the DOJ was used as a political baseball bat — and it's offering to pay for the bruises. The fund is administered by a five-member commission and was born out of the settlement of President Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury Department over the illegal leak of his tax returns.
And the dollar amount? $1.776 billion. Someone in the White House deserves a raise just for that number alone. That's not a budget figure — that's a statement. Patriotic trolling at its absolute finest.
But Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges aren't laughing. Their complaint, filed through attorney Brendan Ballou of the Public Integrity Project, calls the fund a "corrupt sham" and claims it will reward January 6 rioters. Ballou went full drama, calling the fund "stunningly, blindingly illegal" and demanding the court prohibit any transfers to "this corrupt and illegal monstrosity."
Monstrosity. That's what they're calling financial relief for people the government railroaded.
The officers' complaint lays out their real fear in black and white: "The Fund's mere existence sends a clear and chilling message: those who enact violence in President Trump's name will not just avoid punishment, they will be rewarded with riches." Translation — they don't want anyone examining whether the prosecutions were politically motivated, because we all know what that examination would find.
Here's the part that really stings for them. The fund didn't appear out of thin air. It came from Trump's settlement with the IRS, where the agency was permanently barred from pursuing claims against Trump based on prior tax returns. Trump had originally requested $230 million in damages. Instead, $1.776 billion was earmarked for Americans who got the weaponization treatment.
So the government leaked Trump's tax returns illegally, got caught, settled, and now part of that settlement helps other people the government abused. And somehow that's the "illegal" part? According to Dunn and Hodges, yes.
The lawsuit argues that no federal statute authorizes the creation of the fund or its five-member commission, and that the whole thing violates the Constitution. Which is rich coming from people who had zero constitutional concerns when the DOJ was throwing the book at grandmothers who walked through velvet ropes on January 6, 2021.
We spent years watching federal prosecutors destroy lives over trespassing charges while the people who actually burned cities in 2020 walked free. Now there's finally a mechanism to address that two-tiered justice system, and the response from the weaponizers is to file more lawfare.
As reported by Patriot News Alerts, this lawsuit is the clearest proof yet that the establishment isn't sorry about weaponization — they're only sorry someone is finally doing something about it.
They're literally suing to keep the right to persecute people. And they wonder why we voted the way we did.