Vance Cornered on Furious Backlash to Trump’s $1.8B Grift Fund

Kylie Cooper / ReutersJD Vance has offered a coy justification for Donald Trump’s new 1.8 billion slush fund for MAGA allies who claim they were unjustly prosecuted by the Biden administration. “Look, I understand the resistance,” the vice president told NBC News Tuesday of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund. “Any time you spend people’s money—and that’s what we do in the government, we spend other people’s money—you’ve got to be careful about it and deliberate about it.”“We have long recognized in this country that people who are wronged by the legal system deserve some sort of compensation,” Vance went on. “I think in some ways the discussion around the fund distracted from that underlying principle, which is very important.”Read more at The Daily Beast.