Folks can't afford their medicine. Farmers barely hanging on. And this criminal? He's paying himself off with our money.

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Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime
Folks can’t afford their medicine. Farmers are barely hanging on. And this guy? He’s paying himself off with our money.

Drain. The. Damn. Swamp.

The New York Times @nytimes
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

___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

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.

“What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”

He added: “And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.”

Administrative claims are not technically lawsuits. Such complaints are submitted first to the Justice Department on what is called a Standard Form 95, to see if a settlement can be reached without a lawsuit in federal court. If the department formally rejects such a claim or declines to act on it, a person could then sue in court. Still, that is an unlikely outcome in this instance, given that Mr. Trump is already negotiating, in essence, with his subordinates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

criminal's complaint doc: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/873052e810ffe3d8/eb43fcf4-full.pdf