Ex-VP Pence Calls Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund ‘Deeply Offensive’

Former Vice President Mike Pence said it’s “deeply offensive” that a new $1.8 billion settlement fund created by the Trump administration to resolve the president’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service could be used to pay participants of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The Justice Department said the fund would be used to compensate claims alleging political motivation of legal cases under a settlement resolving Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over the 2019 disclosure of his tax records. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously worked as a personal lawyer for Donald Trump, said the president himself would ...