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Bruce Springsteen slams Donald Trump’s $1.8billion fund for "people who attacked" Capitol: "An American outrage"
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Bruce Springsteen slams Donald Trump’s $1.8billion fund for "people who attacked" Capitol: "An American outrage"

NME·Poppy Burton·3 days ago
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Bruce Springsteen has slammed Donald Trump ‘s so-called “anti-weaponisation fund”, calling it an “American outrage” while onstage recently. At a Washington DC concert on Wednesday night (May 27), the heartland rocker tore into the Justice Department’s recently announced plan to allocate nearly $1.8billion to those who have “suffered weaponisation and lawfare”. Many of Trump’s detractors have speculated that the fund will likely be used by the insurrectionists who faced legal consequences for their part in the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill — some 1,600 of whom were pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office last year. “We have a president who wants to create a $1.8billion fund to compensate and reward people who attacked our nation’s Capitol,” the Boss lamented between songs at Nationals Park stadium. “[They] attacked our democracy. Assaulted our police officers on Jan 6. This is an American outrage, and this is happening now.…

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