President Donald Trump stormed out of an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker after ripping the interview for being “crooked” and ranting about “rigged” elections.The president’s interview aired Sunday on Meet the Press but was filmed on Friday while Trump was in Wisconsin for an agricultural roundtable. The interview was filmed inside a metal barn, with the president and Welker seated next to a tractor, and was interrupted several times by heavy rainfall.The interview took a turn when Welker pressed Trump on his plans for the “anti-weaponization” fund, which was intended to compensate those targeted by “lawfare” and was blocked by a federal judge. The Justice Department later said it would not be moving forward with the plan.
Welker asked Trump if taxpayer dollars would be given to rioters who were charged as a result of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Trump responded by explaining that the fund was intended for people who were “hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that work for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe,” referring to former President Joe Biden.
The president went on to discuss how the Biden administration “weaponized” the government, adding that he would “love” to see the fund work out, but he doesn’t know if it will. He then pointed to Welker, saying the “crooked press” contributed to the “destruction” of people charged under Biden.
