Who are the North Carolinians that could benefit from President Trump’s hugely controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund?”
It’s like reparations for domestic terrorists, says Cardinal & Pine Senior Newsletter Editor Billy Ball.
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Recently, the president reached a settlement with his own Department of Justice in a lawsuit over his leaked tax returns. Critics say it includes a “slush fund” that the president can use to pay people who were arrested and convicted of crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 MAGA attack on the US Capitol.
Dozens of people from North Carolina were charged with crimes in the violent insurrection, many of them for attacking police officers.
In a new Billy Ball Explains NC, we break down who those people are, what they were convicted of doing, and why they might be headed for an unprecedented payday from the federal government.
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