Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on Monday called the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) authorization to compensate President Trump’s allies who believe they were targeted by the federal government “one more day in the worst presidency in American history.”

The DOJ announced that it will create a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” as part of a settlement agreement in Trump’s since-withdrawn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Individuals who say they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted by the Biden DOJ are among those eligible to make a claim.

Bennet told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he “would call it one more day in the worst presidency in American history” instead of an “anti-weaponization fund.”

“When you think about the way that he is using the Justice Department to not just defend himself but enrich himself,” he said.

Bennet raised the administration’s anti-fraud task force led by Vice President Vance “while the president sits in the White House with $2 billion or $3 billion or $4 billion of crypto,” and the war in Iran and “every single rationale that he has given for that war has turned out to be completely without merit.”

“It’s one more day in the worst presidency in American history, I think,” he repeated.

The Colorado Democrat blasted Trump’s handling of the DOJ, calling it “shameful” and comparing the banners depicting the president’s image outside the walls of the DOJ building in Washington, D.C., to “some fascist state somewhere where the great leader is able to put his face on the outside of government buildings.”

“And now he’s turned the work of the Justice Department to basically fund his allies and lawbreakers on Jan. 6 that attacked the Capitol of the United States, that attacked Capitol police officers in full view of the American people,” Bennet continued. “And President Trump is not only saying there is nothing to see here, he’s saying they should be compensated by the taxpayers of the United States.”

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the fund sets “up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress,” and is a means to right wrongs and ensure “this never happens again.”

Democratic lawmakers accused the DOJ of creating a “slush fund.” They also said it was unconstitutional because it had not been approved by Congress.

A group of 93 House Democrats filed an amicus brief in federal court in the Southern District of Florida to block the fund’s creation, arguing that it “raises the specter of corruption unparalleled in American history.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused Trump of devising “a plan to shake hands with himself in order to fund his insurrectionist army to the tune of billions.”

Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), one of the Democrats who filed the amicus brief, similarly claimed the administration was seeking to fund the president’s “private militia.”

“If these people had real, viable causes of action against anybody, they would go to federal court, and the ones who have gone to federal court have lost their cases overwhelmingly,” Raskin told MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow.

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