FL-GOV: Byron Donalds defends 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' as unselfish act by Trump [View all]
Rep. Byron Donalds on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s new “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” becoming one of the few lawmakers to publicly back a program that has largely faced sweeping bipartisan condemnation.
In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” the Florida Republican said the fund is the result of the Internal Revenue Service “victimizing” Trump.
“The dollars are there because the IRS lost its case and they settled it because they did victimize the commander in chief,” said Donalds, a close ally of the president. “Instead of taking the money they said put it into a fund for other people, and now everybody is losing their minds. I don’t understand that.”
Donalds is exiting Congress this year to run for governor in place of term-limited fellow Republican Ron DeSantis.
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