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.
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