The Biden DOJ spent four years prosecuting innocent Americans for the crime of supporting Donald Trump.
Mike Pence went on NBC to defend that record.
And he called Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund "deeply offensive" – and lied about who it's actually for.
Mike Pence Calls the Biden DOJ Lawfare Fund a Slush Fund on Meet the Press
Mike Pence showed up on NBC's Meet the Press and told Kristen Welker and her audience that the Anti-Weaponization Fund was designed to compensate people who assaulted police officers on January 6th.
That is not what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
Blanche stated clearly that the fund exists for victims of weaponized government – innocent people financially destroyed, professionally ruined, and psychologically broken by Biden's DOJ whose only crime was working for or supporting Donald Trump.
Pence knows the difference.
He also knows there's a sitting federal judge currently trying to block those innocent people from receiving a single dollar.
So Pence went on NBC, adopted the same framing as Adam Schiff, and handed Welker exactly the soundbite her bosses wanted.
The question is why he chose to lie about it – and why this week of all weeks.
Pence's new book, What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience, dropped on June 2nd.
Every liberal greenroom in Washington is open to him as long as he keeps saying what he said Sunday.
The Real Victims of Biden DOJ Weaponization Who Need This Fund
Jim Troupis is 72 years old.
He is a former Dane County judge and nationally recognized election law expert who represented Trump's Wisconsin campaign after the 2020 election.
For doing his job – the job the law required him to do – he has faced 17 separate legal actions coordinated across federal and state prosecutors, burning through $1.7 million in legal fees over five years.
His retirement savings are gone.
He has spent those years away from his children and grandchildren.
When federal agents wanted to pressure him, they pulled his son off a Disney Cruise, locked him in a room, seized his phone, and confiscated his computer – not because the son did anything wrong, but to break the father.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul – a protégé of Russia collusion hoax architect Marc Elias – had state prosecutors tell him twice that Troupis's legal strategy was not a crime.
Kaul charged him anyway.
Troupis is now seeking $3.2 million from the Anti-Weaponization Fund.
Mike Pence called that "deeply offensive."
The COVID Doctor Biden DOJ Convicted and Why His Case Is Not Over
Dr. Ron Elfenbein was Maryland's doctor of the year.
During Covid, he built rapid testing sites, established monoclonal antibody infusion centers, and saved lives that career bureaucrats at HHS were too busy to save.
Then he publicly criticized Biden's decision to put skin color ahead of medical need in determining who got those treatments.
Months later, the Biden DOJ charged him with five counts of healthcare fraud – claiming he had overbilled the government by $250 total, fifty dollars per count.
Fifty years in prison was on the table.
A federal jury convicted him.
Then U.S. District Judge James Bredar vacated the conviction, writing that the evidence weighed so heavily in Elfenbein's favor that entering judgment against him would be unjust.
Biden's DOJ appealed on their way out the door, days before Trump's inauguration.
An appeals panel ordered a new trial, and Elfenbein heads back to court in August carrying millions in legal debt.
Three of his four children went into therapy.
He went two and a half years struggling to sleep.
"I was as close to suicidal as I ever have been in my life," Elfenbein told The Federalist. "It was horrific. I would not wish this on my worst enemy."
Mike Pence didn't mention any of that on NBC.
Pence Attacks the Anti-Weaponization Fund While Selling His New Book What Conservatives Believe
Pence waits for the moment that gets him the most liberal media airtime, adopts whatever framing the host is handing out, and wraps it in the language of principle and conscience.
That’s the same play he ran during his failed 2024 presidential campaign – find the liberal greenroom, adopt the host's framing, call it principle.
Now he has a book to sell and Adam Schiff's talking points loaded up and ready to go on NBC.
The Judgment Fund Pence is so outraged about has existed since 1956.
Congress created it specifically to pay legitimate claims against the government.
Obama's DOJ pulled $680 million from that same fund for the Keepseagle settlement – and nobody called it a slush fund.
This fund is not for people who broke windows at the Capitol.
It's for the judge who lost his retirement, the doctor who lost his practice, and the soldier whose pregnant wife miscarried the morning after Biden's agents raided their home in the middle of the night – because he walked through an open door.
Pence knows exactly who it's for.
He said what he said anyway – because NBC was watching, his book needs sales, and Jim Troupis doesn't buy ad time.
Sources:
- M.D. Kittle, "Two Lives Upended By Vindictive Prosecutors Underscore The Need For Anti-Weaponization Fund," The Federalist, May 29, 2026.
- "Justice Department Announces Anti-Weaponization Fund," U.S. Department of Justice, May 18, 2026.
- "Pence: Trump Should Drop 'Deeply Offensive' Anti-Weaponization Fund," Breitbart, May 31, 2026.
- "Mike Pence Lies About the Anti-Weaponization Fund on NBC," Independent Sentinel, May 31, 2026.
- Henry Redman, "Ex-Trump Attorney Troupis Seeks $3.2 Million from Anti-Weaponization Fund," Wisconsin Examiner, May 27, 2026.
- Isaac Schorr, "Mike Pence Wrote New Book to Rebuke Donald Trump's GOP," Mediaite, May 12, 2026.
