{"id":44828,"date":"2026-06-07T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44828"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:02:54","slug":"from-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/07\/from-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

On NBC\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> \u201cMeet the Press\u201d host Kristen Welker does what the press should have done from the start of Trump’s runs for the White House – confront all the lies<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Trump appeared to become agitated when Welker asked him about the $1.8 billion fund he has sought to pay people claiming they were victims of politicized prosecutions. The Justice Department agreed to set up the fund to settle the president\u2019s lawsuit against the IRS, but officials\u00a0backed off<\/a>\u00a0amid court challenges and\u00a0pushback from Republican senators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The president said on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that he still wanted to establish the fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was up to me, I\u2019d pay them the kind of money that they deserve,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they get it approved, that\u2019s great. If they don\u2019t get it approved, I\u2019d be disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Welker pressed Trump specifically on whether the 172 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers during the\u00a0Jan. 6<\/a>\u00a0attack would be eligible for money. Trump declined to rule it out, arguing that FBI agents invited the rioters inside the Capitol and that people pleaded guilty only because they were afraid of harsher sentences.<\/p>\n

Welker pointed out that there is no evidence of FBI agents ushering rioters inside the Capitol. The Justice Department\u2019s inspector general\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that four FBI informants entered the building, but not at officials\u2019 direction, and no on-duty agents were on the Capitol grounds that day until some responded to help subdue the riot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization,\u201d Trump said. \u201cMany of those people should be compensated.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then he went on to his favorite myths: rigged elections, mail-in ballots, etc, and she held firm.<\/p>\n

Then he cut off the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d host Kristen Welker does what the press should have done from the start of Trump’s runs for the White House – confront all the lies: Trump appeared to become agitated when Welker asked him about the $1.8 billion fund he has sought to pay people \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44831,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828\/revisions\/44831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}