Trump’s dead ‘anti-weaponization fund’ comes back to life in Georgia Senate race

Published August 12, 2026 2:30pm ET



The Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization fund” to payout Jan. 6 rioters and other perceived victims of “lawfare” might be dead, but the defunct Department of Justice initiative just won’t go away in the high-stakes Georgia Senate race.  

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), the GOP nominee, was questioned Tuesday at a town hall in Savannah, Georgia, by former Jan. 6 defendant Dominic Box if he’d “support either the victims of political weaponization fund, or some form of compensatory relief, not just to January 6ers like myself, but all Americans — Left, Right, and center — who have become victims of a weaponized political system?”

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