President Donald Trump stormed out of an interview with Meet the Press‘ Kristen Welker after she pressed him on claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and his skepticism that the votes in California’s current election are not being tallied accurately.
During the NBC News interview, Trump was defending his recently announced a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate people who believe they were wrongly targeted by the Biden administration. Last week, the Justice Department said the fund, part of a deal to resolve Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, would not be moving forward.
“As I understand it, the weaponization fund was going to set up a group of people, people that could be picked by anybody, fair people, smart people, and they will go on an individual case basis,” Trump said. “Now I don’t know what’s going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea because people like you — the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he’s not smart enough to know what’s going on — but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful resolute desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong.”
