The Supreme Court found that the government illegally charged hundreds of J6ers with a 20-year felony. Every American should be livid about that! (TRANSCRIPT of 1 minute video remarks by President Trump re $1.776 billion fund)

x.com ^ | May 18, 2026 | @FreeStateWill

[ransomnote]

ransomnote: President Trump and his family dropped their claim to monetary compensation for their lawsuit in order to provide the money for this J'6er fund.

@FreeStateWill

The Supreme Court found that the government illegally charged hundreds of J6ers with a 20-year felony. Every American should be livid about that!

If you don't support restitution for those whom the government illegally damaged, you are anti-American!

May 18, 2026

 

~~~TRANSCRIPT BEGINS

Reporter: The Justice Department has this new fund that was announced today - $1.7 billion. Why should the tax payers pay for the January 6'ers?

President Trump: Well, it's been very well received; I have to tell you. I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in the whole creation of it, and the negotiation.

But this is re-imbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized, and they've been, in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been destroyed, and they turned out to be right.

I mean, it was a terrible period of time in the history of our country, and they worked on it. I know the Justice Department has really been working on it very hard. There's been numerous ocaisions over the years where things like this have been done, but these were people that were weaponized and reallly treated brutally by a system that was so corrupt, with corrupt people running it, and they're getting re-imbursed for their legal fees and the other things that they had to suffer.

~~~TRANSCRIPT ENDS

 

https://x.com/GeriPerna/status/2056537981402386701 

Geri Perna
@GeriPerna

She says 1.7 billion as if that is enough to compensate over 1600 people. Many spent years in prison, many lost their life savings, retirements, careers, and are unable to find employment. Several were denied medical treatment and died because if it. My nephew Matthew Perna killed himself along with 4 others. That number is not exclusive to just J6ers...it simply isn't enough.
May 18, 2026

GROK's response to ransomnote's query:

Yes, the actual award amount for the fund is $1.776 billion.

 

justice.gov

This figure comes directly from the U.S. Department of Justice announcement and related settlement documents. It is drawn from the federal Judgment Fund (a permanent appropriation for settling claims against the government) as part of resolving Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit over the unauthorized leak of his tax returns. Trump and his co-plaintiffs (Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization) receive a formal apology but no direct monetary damages; they dropped their suit and other claims in exchange for creating this fund.

 

justice.gov

Official Documentation

• DOJ Press Release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-anti-weaponization-fund (announces the fund and links to settlement docs).
   

  justice.gov
• Settlement Agreement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441201/dl?inline
• Attorney General Order Establishing the Fund: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441086/dl (or related order at https://justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl).
   

  justice.gov

The fund is overseen by a five-member commission, processes claims through ~December 2028 (with any remainder reverting to the government), and is open to claims of government "weaponization/lawfare" (no explicit partisan test mentioned in the announcement).

 

justice.gov

Conservative Media CoverageHere are details from a few conservative-leaning outlets:

• Fox News: Reports on the $1.776 billion fund as part of the IRS settlement, noting it compensates/apologizes to alleged victims of government lawfare. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/apologies-cash-headed-alleged-weaponization-victims-billion-dollar-trump-settlement
   

  foxnews.com
• Daily Wire: Covers Trump establishing the $1.776B fund to address "Deep State weaponization" via the IRS lawsuit settlement. https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-establishes-1-776b-fund-to-combat-deep-state-weaponization
   

  dailywire.com
• Newsmax: Describes the DOJ creating the ~$1.7–1.8B fund for those harmed by alleged Biden-era weaponization as part of the Trump IRS settlement. https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak/2026/05/18/id/1256642/
   

  newsmax.com
• Breitbart: Notes Trump dropping the $10B IRS suit in exchange for the ~$1.8B "anti-weaponization fund." https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-drops-10b-irs-lawsuit-in-exchange-for-anti-weaponization-fund/
   

  breitbart.com

The $1.776 billion figure (a nod to 1776) is consistently reported across sources as the fund's capitalization. Coverage often frames it as redress for alleged overreach, while critics call it a potential slush fund.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fund; j6; jan6; politicalprisoners

[Segovia]

The IRS taking taxpayer dollars and allotting it to people who have been victimized by our government will NOT prevent it happening again. It’s NOT the IRS’ money! Taking American citizens money and paying it out to American citizens accomplished absolutely nothing. This country is so f’d up!

[Ken522]

Why can’t the government just take the money out of Joe Biden’s pension fund?

[Carl Vehse]

Who will be charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced to punishment for these atrocities against J6ers?

We are still waiting on Justice!!!

[chris haney]

Is anyone really surprised

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

All of these illegal charges occurred in the United District Court for the District of Columbia (DDC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Columbia

The judges in the DDC are corrupt. The Chief Judge is James Boasberg.

[Dr. Franklin]

The IRS taking taxpayer dollars and allotting it to people who have been victimized by our government will NOT prevent it happening again. It’s NOT the IRS’ money! Taking American citizens money and paying it out to American citizens accomplished absolutely nothing. This country is so f’d up!

Repeal prosecutorial immunity and hold people accountable for abuse of power.

[Fai Mao]

It is time to defrock, disbar, and prosecute some judges

[Paladin2]

“In the Halls of Justice, the only Justice is in the Halls...

[linedrive]

J6ers short-changed on this deal. At least publicly put faces to all the elected officials and in charge bureaucrats that railroaded these people. Of course, only if they have been indicted at a minimum would allow a legally ‘allowable’ presentation
But I don’t know anything.

[cport]

“ Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court's other conservative justices (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh) alongside liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The dissenting opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and joined by liberal Justices Sotomayor and Kagan.”

Barrett again. Playing DEI with court picks; you get what you pay for.

[catnipman]

the relevant SCOTUS ruling was made in June 2024, nearly two years ago, so the headline and the X post are all complete bullshit except for the restitution part ...

[Biblebelter]

The J6ers were Prisoners of the War on Trump and those that support him taken by the Deep State which is a Shadow Gubmint.

If you ever going to shed tears for what has become of your beloved country, you would have shed them with me over what happened to these innocents.

They deserve to be compensated although it’s only money.

As for those who want the people responsible charged, tried and convicted, I share those desires.

But Trump has been on the political scene for a decade and what he have we learned.

He has REVEALED that there is a Shadow Gubmint that will frustrate the will of the electorate who voted for Trump to build a wall and insure fair and free elections with Voter ID.

I fear that may be his legacy, simply the REVELATION that gubmint is operated by a uniparty with the organizing principle of operating gubmint for the benefit of the those who operate not the citizens who vote and pay their tax.

To this end we see the uncontrolled and unsustainable growth of gubmint entitlements and programs irregardless of the efficacy.

As far as the criminal pursuit of the traitors who hijacked our republic for their own purposes I fear we will not see justice done.

For we have also learned there are NO WHITE KNIGHTS that Trump can call on to pursue, prosecute and incarcerate the criminals as Rudy Giuliani once did with the Five Families.

AG Sessions was a SNAKE who deferred to his boss China Mitch McConnell.

When Sessions stepped down, Deep State tool Bill Barr was forced on Trump by McConnell who had all the leverage as he had the power to confirm in his back pocket.

In Trump’s second term who was Trump going to choose for AG?

There were NO White Knights or competent crusaders knocking down Trump’s door for the job.

It’s a Hollywood myth that there are prosecutors hungry to attack the centers of power let alone take on the Shadow Gubmint entrenched in the DC swamp.

Getting aboard the Trump Train and working for Trump is not a career move but nothing less than a sheer act of courage bordering on career suicide.

And courage is rarely found in the professional classes that seek gubmint office.

I do not begrudge the J6ers a penny of the 1.7 billion dollars.

I do begrudge EVERY penny of waste, fraud and abuse that Trump and Musk sought to eliminate but were ultimately blocked from doing by the other two branches of gubmint who were MORE directly responsible for the fraud than the the executive as one branch had the power of the purse and the other branch had oversight to see that laws were properly enforced and the justice system effectively worked to attain justice.

May God bless the J6ers, every last one of them.

[Sequoyah101]

Where is the rest of the $10 Billion settlement with Trump going?

This grant amounts to about $100K per J6 wronged person. Not nearly enough to compensate them. They should own the government. They would probably do a better job with it than is being done now. It would be hard to to a lot worse.

[Captain Walker]

It's inadequate; people need to be put on trial.

At least one J6er (Nejourde Meacham) killed himself after he was presented with this penalty. He was 22 years old.

[metmom]

If you don't support restitution for those whom the government illegally damaged, you are anti-American!

Likewise, retribution and justice for those who perpetrated such an atrocity.

The architects of such actions MUST BE held accountable if anything near justice is to be done, if that's even possible for the lives ruined and lost.

[Vehmgericht]

Lead 1/6 prosecutor Michael Sherwin, “I wanted to ensure, and our office wanted to ensure, that there was shock and awe. That we could charge as many people as possible before [January] 20th. And it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C., because they were like, ‘If we go there, we’re going to get charged.’” This man belongs in jail. He will not go to jail because the Deep State is still in charge.

[roving]

It needs to be taken out of the judge’s pockets.

[FLT-bird]

Why has the DOJ not found something on Matthew Graves, charged him in a deep deep red district, arrested him and denied him bail yet?

[Blue Highway]

So it’s just taxpayer’s money repaying the J6ers... I would think most of those J6ers would also like to see those that falsely imprisoned them to be hanging by streetlights. So far nothing.