Trump says he’s not sure if ‘anti-weaponization’ fund is dead: ‘I’d have to ask the lawyers’

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday the Justice Department was “not moving forward” with the $1.8 billion fund.

President Donald Trump injected fresh uncertainty over the status and future of the “anti-weaponization” fund Wednesday, a day after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department would no longer pursue the $1.8 billion fund, which has sparked bipartisan blowback.

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Asked in the Oval Office whether the fund was dead or just on hold, Trump responded: “I’d have to ask the lawyers. I don’t know.”

“The weaponization fund, as far as I’m concerned, was a beautiful thing,” he told reporters. “I love it. I think it’s so important.”