Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

[choie]

I truly think I'm going to burst a blood vessel. THAT IS OUR FUCKING TAX MONEY!

"President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.

Mr. Trump submitted complaints through an administrative claim process that often is the precursor to lawsuits. The first claim, lodged in late 2023, seeks damages for a number of purported violations of his rights, including the F.B.I. and special counsel investigation into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016 Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the claim has not been made public.

The second complaint, filed in the summer of 2024, accuses the F.B.I. of violating Mr. Trump’s privacy by searching Mar-a-Lago, his club and residence in Florida, in 2022 for classified documents. It also accuses the Justice Department of malicious prosecution in charging him with mishandling sensitive records after he left office."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html

[wcmagumba]

1. Please God, make him go away...I hear Trump plays a mean harp...give him a big ole pair of wings and let him fly!

[choie]

2. He's not going to need wings where he's going.

More like a flame retardent suit.

[Igel]

3. If the non-fallen angels are winged,

there's no mention of fallen angels being wing-shorn.

In fact, a lot of medieval pictures of demons show them as winged.

(Also not much mention of people becoming fowl, either. More mention of them being foul to start off.)

[wcmagumba]

4. I don't care which place he goes to I just want him to be gone...

[choie]

5. I concur heartily.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Can a sitting President sue his own Justice Department?

And other conundrums of the Robert Court.

What a disgrace the Corrupt Six have proved themselves to be.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. MaddowBlog-Trump insists he's entitled to 'a lot' of taxpayer money following DOJ investigations

After The New York Times reported that the president “is demanding" that the Justice Department pay him $230 million, he candidly confirmed the story.

The circumstances remain head-spinning:

- The DOJ investigated a suspected criminal

- The suspected criminal then took control over the DOJ

- The suspected criminal now expects the DOJ to stuff “a lot” of taxpayer money into his pockets to satisfy his self-pitying sense of entitlement

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-22T15:04:04.499Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-insists-s-entitled-lot-taxpayer-money-doj-investigations-rcna239115

Shortly after the newspaper’s report reached the public, Trump fielded some questions from journalists at a White House event, who were naturally interested in knowing whether the reporting was correct. Oddly enough, the Republican confirmed the entire story. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump acknowledged to reporters Monday that he’s seeking up to hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from the federal government for its scuttled investigations and prosecutions of him.

Despite painfully obvious concerns about corruption, the president was quite candid about his perspective, declaring during an unrelated Oval Office gathering that Justice Department officials “owe me a lot of money.”

As part of the same Q&A, while claiming he was “damaged very greatly” by the investigations into his many alleged felonies, Trump added that it would ultimately be up to him to approve a payout to himself.....

What does this have to do with the investigations he’s spent years whining about? Trump didn’t say. In context, it seemed he just wanted to throw this nonsensical and discredited conspiracy theory into his remarks.

The head-spinning circumstances remain utterly bizarre:

The Justice Department investigated a suspected criminal.

The suspected criminal was then elected president, enabling him to take control of the Justice Department.

The suspected criminal now expects the Justice Department to stuff “a lot” of taxpayer money into his pockets — not because he earned it, but because of his conspiratorial, self-pitying sense of entitlement.

As for what, exactly, the president might do with the money if he were to approve a $230 million shakedown for himself, Trump said at the White House event that he’d “do something nice” with the funds, including possibly devoting some or all of the money to his ballroom project. Watch this space.

[lame54]

8. But the ballroom is paying for itself