Legal expert throws cold water on Trump DOJ's 'unsettling' attempt to revive slush fund
January 6ers who attacked cops won't have much luck with a new workaround to Trump's frozen slush fund, according to a legal expert.
Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman wrote in his Substack about a loophole meant to compensate January 6ers despite the freeze of Trump's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund. Litman noted that the slush fund "collapsed under bipartisan political pressure last month."
Litman was responding to an article by The Guardian that reported that January 6ers are trying to get paid anyway by filing a claim through the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), which allows compensation for people wronged by the government....
Jun 19, 2026