Donald Trump considers compensation for January 6 rioters

Donald Trump finds new ways to be the world’s biggest jacka** every single day. 

According to The Hill, Donald Trump was asked by Newsmax reporter Greg Kelly if he had any plans to offer financial compensation to the domestic terrorist MAGAs who were convicted and imprisoned for ransacking the country’s Capitol on January 6, 2021. Here’s what the orange man had to say about it:

Well, there’s talk about that,” Trump told the host. “We have a lot of people … a lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because … really like that group of people.”

“They were patriots as far as I was concerned,”

This “talk” suggests that Trump is in favor of using taxpayer funds to pay this basket of deplorables. Speaking of taxpayer funds, there’s an insult to be added to the injury. According to CBSNews, Justice Department and Capitol administrator conservatively estimate that the cost of the damage done to the Capitol on January 6 is almost $3 million and because of the pardons that Trump issued, only 15% of that cost has been repaid by those who were convicted.

Rep. Gerald Connelly penned a letter to Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin to get an accurate accounting for exactly how much the repairs will cost us as American citizens since Trump has allowed J6ers to abandon their responsibilities.

“Restitution was one of the most common sentences handed down to January 6th insurrectionists, but offenders were slow to repay their obligations, and taxpayers were far from being made whole,” he said in his letter.

The idea that any of us should have to pay a single red cent for the damage that any of these trash bags did that day is infuriating but the idea that Trump also wants to GIVE them the same “welfare” that they constantly rail against when it comes to Black folks and immigrants. Funny how that works.