Trump Issues Forceful Defense of His Anti-Weaponization Fund as Senate Republicans Balk

It’s not exactly a political secret that the GOP is about as fractured as it’s ever been under President Donald Trump.

Whether talking about Israel, Iran, the economy, primary endorsements, or immigration, you’re bound to get wildly different opinions about the president’s performance in those areas depending on which Republican you ask.

But as polarizing as those issues may be, Trump appears to have kicked a senatorial hornet’s nest with his “anti-weaponization fund” that ultimately torpedoed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding bill.

The mere decision to unveil that fund — ostensibly a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who had been targeted by the Justice Department — was described by some Republicans as a “galactic blunder.”

Likely sensing this roiling tension, Trump took to Truth Social to issue an impassioned defense of this fund on Friday.

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝟱.𝟮𝟮.𝟮𝟲 𝟬𝟵:𝟰𝟵 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧

I gave up