U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NBC's ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristin Welker after a heated exchange over his proposed "weaponization fund," the January 6 Capitol riot cases, and his continued claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
The tense interview began with Welker pressing Trump on a proposed multi-billion-dollar fund intended to compensate people who claim they were victims of what he describes as the federal government's weaponization of the justice system.
Asked whether he was abandoning the fund after it was blocked by the courts and faced opposition in Congress, Trump defended the proposal and argued that many Americans had suffered under the administration of former President Joe Biden.
"People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe," Trump said. "They've committed suicide, they've lost their jobs, they've lost their families, they've lost their wives, they've lost everything over a fake weaponization of government."
When Welker repeatedly asked whether he intended to revive the fund, Trump responded, "If it was up to me, I'd pay them the kind of money that they deserve. People have been destroyed. Lives have been destroyed. Many suicides."
