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I have answered questions after my hearing where I said that it was dead, I have rescinded the order that that set up the weaponization fund, which means that it does not exist." "I'm not sure how I can further say that the anti-weaponization fund doesn't exist, or we use the word 'dead,'" he added. "But if anybody has any ideas, we also have said under oath that if Congress would like to make it a law, that we would support that, as would the White House." At the same time, Blanche suggested the department would entertain other means to pay out so-called "victims" of "weaponization" under the Biden administration, as President Trump has repeatedly said he wants. "The president feels very strongly, as do I, that there were people who were victims of a Department of Justice that was absolutely weaponized, and he feels very strongly that that he would want to -- to make them whole, as do I, but it will not be through the Anti-Weaponization Fund," Blanche said.
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