Months before the Justice Department announced its $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," Trump ally Ed Martin privately predicted that January 6 defendants would eventually receive millions of dollars in compensation, according to an NBC News report.
Martin, then leading the Justice Department's "weaponization" working group, told Republican operative Norm Coleman that the administration would eventually distribute millions of dollars to people charged and later pardoned in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, according to two people cited by the outlet.
