By Chauncey Alcorn For Dailymail.com
Published: 20:38 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 20:38 GMT, 4 March 2019
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Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart and ardent Trump critic has shocked his fans by praising the President' handling of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
In the past, Stewart has been famously opposed to the Commander In Chief, even branding him a 'giant turd asteroid' on Stephen Colbert's show last year.
But the comedian made a point of praising Trump's Justice Department last week for their managing of the compensation fund, a cause Stewart has championed for more than a decade.
The fund compensates first responders and relief workers who have developed chronic health problems from injuries and toxins they breathed in while digging through the rubble of the World Trade Center after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.
Trump capitalized on the positive remarks from one of his harshest critics, retweeting a clip of Stewart on Sunday.
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Jon Stewart praised Donald Trump's U.S. Justice Dept. on Sunday for its management of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for 9/11 first responders
Funding for the 9/11 victims program has faced opposition from fiscal conservatives on Capitol Hill in
