President Donald Trump appeared to signal there’s been conversation in his administration about a “compensation fund” for January 6th rioters, when asked about it by Newsmax’s Greg Kelly in an interview that aired Tuesday night.
“Is there any talk of — because they lost opportunity, they lost income — any kind of compensation fund or anything like that?” Kelly asked the president.
“Well, there’s talk about that. We have a lot of people talk about it,” Trump replied. “A lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because they — a lot of the people in government really like that group of people.”
“They were patriots as far as I was concerned,” he added. “I talk about them a lot. They were treated very unfairly.”
Trump pardoned January 6th offenders who staged a violent insurrection on the Capitol in 2021 to try to stop the certification of former President Joe Biden’s election victory as one of his first acts when he returned to the White House.
“I took care of them,” Trump said in the Newsmax interview. “I said I was going to, and I did.”
