{"id":604260,"date":"2026-05-19T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604260"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:22:06","slug":"don-lemon-calls-trumps-fund-white-reparations-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604260","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon calls Trump\u2019s fund \u2018white reparations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s new \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d has his critics spiraling, and Don Lemon overreacted to\u00a0 the nearly $1.8 billion by blasting it as a form of \u201cwhite reparations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lemon\u2019s rant was in reaction to the Justice Department\u2019s announcement of the fund, which was set up after Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The former CNN host delivered a sarcastic monologue on what he termed a \u201cslush fund,\u201d attacking Republicans for previously arguing against reparations for descendants of slaves.<\/p>\n

Lemon claimed Trump \u201cstole\u201d the money out of the U.S. Treasury and \u201cgave it to the people who attacked the United States Capitol on January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor hundreds of years, cannot be done,\u201d Lemon said as he lamented reparations for slave descendants. \u201cBut the Justice Department put together $1.776 billion by Tuesday to pay white insurrectionists. This is white reparations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when they tell you that they can\u2019t figure it out, what they mean is they don\u2019t want to figure it out. Because they have always known how to write the check,\u201d he said. \u201cShould we be paying for something that we didn\u2019t do? I didn\u2019t go down in that damn Capitol, I didn\u2019t walk in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who testified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, announced that the fund will \u201chave the power to issue formal apologies and monetary relief owed to claimants,\u201d and there is \u201cno partisan requirement\u201d to file a claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department\u2019s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,\u201d Blanche said in a statement. \u201cAs part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\ud83d\udea8\"Justice Department Announces Anti-Weaponization Fund: Part of settlement agreement in President Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service<\/p>\n

Per the settlement, plaintiffs will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind.<\/p>\n

There are no partisan\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lemon blasted Blanche\u2019s \u201cb*llshit excuses\u201d as he continued his rant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, Those white insurrectionist criminal terrorists are so disenfranchised that they have never had any sort of opportunities in America, never. America doesn\u2019t grant white people opportunities, never have. They only do it to minorities,\u201d he said. \u201cAre you out of your f*cking mind, Todd Blanche?\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump\u2019s new \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d has his critics spiraling, and Don Lemon overreacted to\u00a0 the nearly $1.8 billion by blasting it as a form of \u201cwhite reparations.\u201d Lemon\u2019s rant was in reaction to the Justice Department\u2019s announcement of the fund, which was set up after Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.… Continue reading Don Lemon calls Trump\u2019s fund \u2018white reparations\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}