Michael Fanone, a former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was attacked by a mob of Donald Trump supporters during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, sounded off on Monday over the Justice Department’s $1.7 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that could pay for claims of those charged for their role in the Capitol riot.

“It’s rubbing salt in the wound to all of the officers that fought to defend the Capitol,” said Fanone in an appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

Fanone, who argued that “day one” pardons of about 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters were the “nail in the coffin of accountability” for the attack, said the administration’s latest move is “adding insult to injury.”

In a post to his Substack page, he described the money pot — set to the tune of $1.776 billion, a reference to the year of the nation’s founding — as a “slush fund” as it was formed in exchange for Trump dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the DOJ.

Earlier this year, the president sued the IRS and the Treasury Department in his capacity as a private citizen over a leak of his tax information in 2020. He’s also dropping separate administrative claims for damages.

The fund, per the DOJ, is intended to pay those who have “suffered weaponization and lawfare,” alarming Democrats who are concerned that the fund could be used to pay the president’s political allies.

“It’s a flex, a big fuck you to America, and it’s being paid for with your tax dollars,” wrote Fanone of the administration choosing the $1.776 billion figure for the fund.

He later continued, “A nearly 2 billion dollar slush fund wrapped in an American symbol to be placed like a wreath at Arlington Cemetery to the violent insurrectionists who tried to overthrow democracy over a lie. In my book, this is the greatest betrayal of them all.”

He went on, “It absolutely f**king disgusts me to my core.”

Trump, when asked about the fund, told reporters on Monday that he knew “very little about it.”

Fanone, in his appearance on CNN, accused Trump of offering a “buyout” to “violent criminals for committing violent crimes on his behalf.”

“It’s a buyout,” Fanone said. “It’s part of his normalization of political violence, which, quite frankly, no one has done more to normalize political violence in this country than Donald Trump himself.”

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