Trump Voices Support for Compensating Jan. 6 Defendants but DOJ Rejects Proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund

President Donald Trump said he supports compensating people prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, including those who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers, during an interview taped Friday at a farmers' roundtable event in Wisconsin. The interview aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press.

He added that he would pay them "the kind of money that they deserve" if the decision were up to him. Trump said he thinks the proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund is "a great idea" and that many other Republicans agree. He said he would be "disappointed" if Congress did not approve it.

When asked whether he would be okay with Jan. " The Department of Justice on Friday put in writing that the Anti-Weaponization Fund would not move forward. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing last week that the administration would not proceed with the fund.

776 billion in funding. More than 1,580 people were charged criminally in federal court in connection with Jan. 6, according to the Department of Justice.

More than 1,000 pleaded guilty. At least 221 individuals were found guilty at contested trials, and another 40 were convicted following an agreed-upon set of facts presented to and accepted by the court. Trump issued a blanket clemency to those associated with the Jan.

6 insurrection on his first day in office. During the interview, he argued that many defendants pleaded guilty because they were "frightened" and that "dirty cops" were at fault for some of the events of that day. The interview was interrupted multiple times by rain pattering against the barn roof.

Trump abruptly ended the interview while Welker challenged his assertion that Democrats were "cheating" in the unresolved primary election in California. "Let's call it quits, because I've had enough. Thank you, darling.

Have a good time," Trump said as he stood up. " Trump told Welker that NBC was a "crooked" and "one-sided" network. " Trump said the 2020 election was rigged. The interview also focused on Trump's war with Iran, with the president directly threatening the use of military force to secure Iran's remaining reserves of enriched uranium.