“This is reimbursing people that were horribly treated…They’ve been weaponized. They’ve been, in some cases, imprisoned wrongly,” the president said. “They’ve paid legal fees they didn’t have. They’ve gone bankrupt. Their lives have been destroyed. And they turned out to be right. It was a terrible period of time in the history of our country.”
For years, the corporate media cheered as Americans were persecuted, tortured in federal custody, and buried under outrageous sentences for getting beatdown, shot and tear gassed by police for exercising their First Amendment rights.
The American people demanded accountability, and the reckoning is just beginning.
