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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) absolutely demolished a CNN host who tried to peddle a blatant lie about President Trump’s new Department of Justice “anti-weaponization” fund.
The failing fake news network, still reeling from years of pushing the Russia hoax and defending the Biden regime’s lawfare against Trump and his supporters, attempted to smear the $1.776 billion IRS settlement fund by claiming it might just hand taxpayer money to January 6 defendants who allegedly “harmed police.”
But Rep. Donalds wasn’t about to let the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party get away with it.
Byron Donalds:
Well, no, it’s more detailed than that. You’re just saying—
Pamela Brown:
How is it? They’re convicted of attacking a police officer.
Byron Donalds:
And let me explain why. Because if a Justice Department official overcharges in that case, if they decide to then go and do other prosecutions for political purposes—and let’s be very clear, that is what the Biden Justice Department was doing—then that, in my view, is not following equal justice under the law, which is the law of the land here in our country. So under those circumstances, then yes, a fund like this should be utilized.
Pamela Brown:
So you’re not ruling this out either—that those convicted of attacking police officers could be compensated? You’re not ruling out that that could—that should be a possibility?
Byron Donalds:
That’s something where you have to actually watch the operations of this fund and what moves forward. What you’re trying to do is make an assertion where it doesn’t even exist today, and that’s what you’re doing. So don’t come in with a leading question trying to make an assertion that doesn’t exist, because you’re trying to make it a political question.
Pamela Brown:
No, I was just—
Byron Donalds:
Let’s be fundamentally clear that there have been instances in the history of this country where our government has gone after our people based upon political means. They have overcharged—and it’s not even if they brought charges—reckless investigations, trying to bring the abuse of Justice Department officials or other law enforcement officials against the American people.
We can talk about what happened with Michael Flynn—the fact that he was persecuted by this government under the phony Russia collusion scandal, which we all know now is fake and phony. What about him? What about the money he had to put out for his attorneys? What about the anguish on his family?
These are the real-life situations that do happen to the American people. So what I would say is, let’s not cheapen it and weaponize it just because we’re trying to make a political point. Let’s take a step back and understand that we have to have a federal government and a Department of Justice that looks at the law plainly and clearly, and does not weaponize it for political means.
WATCH:
NOW: Trump-endorsed Florida governor candidate Rep. Byron Donalds just OBLITERATED CNN after she tried LYING that Trump’s DOJ is just going to pay out funds to people who harmed police
CNN: So you’re not ruling this out?! Those who attacked police?!
DONALDS: “You’re trying… pic.twitter.com/rU6lAZbusc
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2026
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