Senator Thom Tillis
RINO Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) this week went off on President Trump and the Department of Justice over the newly established anti-weaponization fund to compensate victims of Biden-era lawfare and political persecution.
The fund was created in exchange for Trump dropping more than $10 billion in legal action against the federal government for leaking his tax returns and weaponizing the Justice Department against him. Trump told reporters on Monday that he wants to reimburse “people that were horribly treated.”
“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,” the President said.
However, Senate Republicans are already teaming up with Democrats to kill the fund, with Senators Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA.) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) leading the charge and drafting legislation.
Tillis voiced his support to block the fund on Wednesday in an interview with Spectrum News’s Reuben Jones, attacking January 6 patriots and President Trump and slamming the fund as “stupid on stilts.”
In another gaggle with reporters on Thursday, Tillis trashed the idea again with left-wing talking points, slamming January 6 victims as “punks” and claiming their show trials were legitimate.
During his Wednesday interview, Tillis decried the thought of recompensating people who were accused of assaulting police officers, saying it would be “as objectionable and as insulting to me as the Democrats’ initiative for all cops are bastards.”
Now, he said, Republicans are looking “no different than” Democrats calling to defund the police, stating, “There’s no moral difference between the Democrats on Act Blue raising money for all cops or bastards and actually rewarding someone for assaulting a police officer on one of the darkest days in Senate history.”
Ironically, Tillis has trashed ICE and Border Patrol agents, claiming they unjustly killed violent leftwing extremists Renee Good and Alex Pretti and saying they need “to learn from that.” He has also justified leftists who are threatening and assaulting ICE agents and blamed Kristi Noem for enabling them to kill Americans.
When asked about what he’s looking for in an Attorney General nominee, he told Jones, “Anybody who equivocates and supports it, the thugs that harm police officers, will never get my vote in committee or on the floor.”
“When they want my vote for confirmation, they better not have anything in their record suggesting that what happened on January 6 was anything but one of the darkest days in American history,” he added.
WATCH:
Jones: Do you believe this is legal what the president is trying to do and what the Department of Justice is trying to do?
Tillis: I’m not going to be an attorney and judge its legality, but I think it’s stupid on stilts because it will invariably put us in a position where your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a police officer, admitted their guilt, got convicted, got pardoned, and now we’re going to pay them for that? That’s absurd. The American people are going to reject this out of hand.
No reasonable person. Look, I’ve stipulated that the President pardoned a lot of people on january 6 that he probably should have. The dummies that went into the Capitol after it was breached, they weren’t, they weren’t in any altercations with law enforcement, but that front line had a lot of thugs that should still be in prison and be in prison as long as the law would allow, and they too are eligible for this payout. Your dollars, my dollar, that is the definition, as Thomas Jefferson, I think, once said, of tyranny. When you take money from me to give to a purpose that I vehemently disagree with, that’s tyranny, and that’s what that account is.
While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Tillis, visibly frustrated, called the fund a “payout pot for punks,” again calling it “stupid on stilts.”
Under what circumstances would it ever make sense to provide restitution for people who either pled guilty or were found guilty in a court of law?” he asked.
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As The Gateway Pundit reported, Senate Republicans broke for a ten-day recess, delaying the reconciliation vote to fund ICE, Border Patrol, and Secret Service to buck Trump over the weaponization fund, his White House Ball Room renovation, and his endorsement of Ken Paxton to replace RINO John Cornyn.
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