Potential compensation for a group who felt the full weight of the government under the Biden administration was deemed “deeply offensive” by former Vice President Mike Pence.
(Video Credit: NBC News)
Having shamed himself off the 2024 presidential campaign trail with the help of his “not my concern,” President Donald Trump’s two-time running mate recently resurfaced peddling a book. As part of the media circuit for “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” an appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” found Pence speaking out against the president’s anti-weaponization fund, especially where it concerns J6ers.
After accusing the president and his administration of having “departed” from conservative principles, and before deflecting on whether he’d make another run for the White House, the vice president was presented with the topic of the nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund by host Kristen Welker.
“You’ve heard about the president’s $1.8 billion fund, the so-called anti-weaponization fund to pay people who say they were unfairly investigated or prosecuted by the government. It’s tied up in the courts right now,” said the host. “But, Mr. Vice President, should the government in any instance compensate people who attacked law enforcement officers on January 6th?”
“Well, look, I think that the weaponization fund… It’s a bad idea from the start. I would encourage the administration just to drop it,” he first replied.
“The Justice Department has the ability to settle cases, like they did with that pro-life family who was put upon during the Biden administration,” argued Pence, seemingly referring to the seven-figure settlement awarded to Catholic father Mark Houck after a lawsuit was brought against the DOJ and FBI over their Sept. 2022 raid of the Houck’s home for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act over his pro-life activism.
Mark Houck, a devout Catholic father of seven from Pennsylvania, won a settlement of over one million dollars from the U.S. Department of Justice after an armed FBI raid with approximately 20-25 agents on his family home in front of his wife and seven children led to his arrest… pic.twitter.com/TzhZDVR1o6
— Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) April 20, 2026
Appearing to lump all J6ers together by steering clear of differentiating between the most egregious charges brought during the Biden administration and the majority of defendants pardoned by Trump, the vice president insisted, “Let’s get rid of this fund. I mean, it’s deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6th. And I think that’s broadly held by most Republicans and most Americans.”
As Welker pointed out, the fund has since become the latest administrative effort tied up in court after a motion filed by nearly three dozen judges argued, “The purported ‘settlement’ that the parties never placed before this court raises profound questions about the parties’ candor toward the court and manipulation of the judicial system, which threatens to undermine confidence in the administration of justice.”
Some were quick to assert that it was the vice president himself who had proven “deeply offensive.”
Sorry…it’s just Pence that is deeply offensive!
— Mark S. (@LouisVilSlugger) May 31, 2026
Pence is deeply offensive
— 🇺🇲Salty Texan (@texan_maga) May 31, 2026
PSA- Nobody on either side of the political spectrum cares what Mike Pence thinks.
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) May 31, 2026
Who cares what Pence has to say? I know I don’t.
— Charles Dykes (@charles_dy48172) June 1, 2026
Pence represents a dead era where conservatives preferred losing politely to actually winning. The establishment is just terrified of an administration that fires back instead of quietly taking the punch.
— Brian Cho (@Cho_Perspective) May 31, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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