Right-wing host warns Trump's 'terrible' grift is killing the GOP's midterm

President Donald Trump has destroyed his party’s chances of prevailing in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a prominent conservative commentator.

“If you haven't heard, the President of the United States has gotten the Justice Department to agree to a multi-billion dollar fund to reimburse people who they claim were victims of government weaponization,” conservative commentator Erick Erickson posted on X on Thursday. “This is a terrible idea. No one deserves my taxpayer dollars because the government was not nice to them. The government is not nice to people all the time. And you know what? There are juries out there, and if the government is abusive to you, you can file suit. And if the government is abusive, you know, you tend to win. Juries don't like an abusive government.”

Erickson also dismissed the idea that there needs to be “some anti-weaponization fund” in the first place.

“I am morally opposed,” Erickson said. “I am philosophically opposed. I am intellectually opposed. I do not want my taxpayer dollars being used to enrich the pockets of the president's friends.”

He concluded, “This is a gift for the Democrats. This anti-weaponization fund by the Republican president is a gift to the Democratic Party. They can just campaign on the images of people breaking the windows and smashing the doors to get into the Capitol and saying, ‘The President is rewarding these people with a billion dollars for doing it.’ Whether it's true or not, that's going to sell to the American public. People are already frustrated with the President of the United States. This anti-weaponization fund is a giant pot of corruptible money.”

This is not the first time Erickson has set his sights on the president from his own party, a man he has previously supported. Earlier this month Erickson attacked Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which involves the president’s longtime friendship with the late pedophile and his alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old with Epstein. He also blasted the president’s decision to wage war against Iran.

“At this point,” Erickson wrote, “it is clear that there will forever be a massive stain on the Trump legacy as a result of the Epstein cover-up. I don’t think anyone, Democrat or Republican would disagree with that.” He also argued that “this is where we see this conflict REALLY begin to rupture the foundation of his presidential legacy. It’s not JUST that he campaigned on ‘No New Wars’ and then decided to conduct regime change in Venezuela, launch a massive war against Iran and repeatedly say ‘Cuba is next’, it’s that he’s LOSING in Iran.”

“Iran is his Vietnam,” Erickson concluded. “Iran is Trump’s Afghanistan-withdrawal disaster. Iran is where his legacy forever becomes: Epstein & Iran.”

Last month Erickson also warned that Trump’s controversial policies are hurting him with his own voters.

“One wonders how many warning signs Republicans need to see that they have a problem in Georgia — and nationally,” Erickson wrote for the Atlanta Journal Constitution at the time. “But on April 7, they got another one.”

Erickson was referring to the recent House race for Georgia’s 14th congressional district, in which former Floyd County District Attorney Clay Fuller won by 12 points in a district that Trump won in 2024 by 37 points.

“He keeps giving his supporters reasons for exasperation,” Erickson explained. “In just the last week he dropped an F-bomb on Easter while praising Allah, declared the destruction of an entire civilization was coming, attacked the Pope, then pushed out a picture of himself as Jesus healing the sick that he later deleted and said he thought was him as a doctor.”

He concluded, “Numerous Trump supporters want the president to delete his social media accounts and are frustrated by the president’s lack of discipline. That will play into a general election with motivated Democrats and unenthusiastic Republicans.”