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Todd Blanche refuses to rule out payments to Jan. 6 rioters: 'I don't know'

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Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to rule out the idea that Jan. 6 rioters could be paid by President Donald Trump's administration. During a Sunday appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Blanche was pressed by host Kristen Welker on whether the Trump administration would pay Jan. 6 rioters . Blanche has repeatedly said that the anti-weaponization fund , which critics worried would pay Jan. 6 rioters, is dead, but Welker asked if they could still get payments. "You're saying you're not ever reviving it, but just to be very clear, can you guarantee that under your Department of Justice, anyone who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 will not receive one dime of taxpayer money if they file a claim against the federal government?" "Anybody can file a claim against the federal government," Blanche said. "I'm not going to sit here on a news program and say whether a litigation that may or may not happen will result in money. I can't do that." He then laid out a separate process through which Ja