'Terrible idea!' GOP pundit slams Trump for handing Democrats another midterm gift

President Donald Trump's new taxpayer-funded "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out allies who claim to have been victims of "lawfare" horrified GOP pundit Erick Erickson, who tore into Trump on Thursday for losing focus on issues that matter — and trying to hold his majorities in November.

"You’re not going to like it, but here’s the harsh truth: Trump would rather use taxpayer money to relitigate the 2020 election and January 6th through an 'anti-weaponization' fund than focus on winning the midterms," Erickson posted to X, along with a clip of him elaborating more on the issue.

"If you haven't heard, the President of the United States has got the Justice Department to agree to a multi-billion dollar fund to reimburse people who they claim were victims of government weaponization," said Erickson. "This is a terrible idea."

"No one deserves my taxpayer dollars because the government was not nice to them," he said. "The government is not nice to people all the time. And you know what, there are juries out there that the government is abusive to you, you can file suit and if the government is abusive to you, you tend to win. Juries don't like an abusive government. The idea that there needs to be some 'anti-weaponization fund' — I'm sorry, y'all, I am morally opposed. I am philosophically opposed, I am intellectually opposed. I do not want my taxpayer dollars being used to enrich the pockets of the president's friends."

"This is a gift for the Democrats," he continued. "They can just campaign on the images of people breaking the windows and smashing the doors to get into the Capitol and say, the president is rewarding these people with a billion dollars ... that's going to sell to the American public. People are already frustrated with the President of the United States. This anti-weaponization fund is a giant pot of corruptible money."