'They were patriots': Trump floats 'compensation fund' for pardoned J6 rioters

President Donald Trump told Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Tuesday that he is considering establishing a fund to compensate the January 6 rioters he pardoned for storming the Capitol in 2021.

"I took care of them," said Trump. "I said I was going to, and I did."

"Is there any talk — because they lost opportunity, income — any kind of compensation fund?" asked Kelly.

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"Well, there's talk about that, we have a lot of people talk about that, lot of people that are in government now talk about it, because they — a lot of people in government really like that group of people," said Trump. "They were patriots as far as I was concerned. I talk about them a lot."

After the Justice Department pardoned roughly 1,500 people involved in the attack, some of whom had been convicted of violent assaults on police officers, Trump officials took it a step further and argued in court that even some convictions that were not strictly related to the attack, like illegal firearms charges, should be included in the pardon.

Some of them have since been re-arrested, including a Houston man charged with a 2016 online solicitation of a minor. Another was fatally shot while resisting arrest on unrelated charges just days after receiving the pardon.

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