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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230M

duxup 1y ago
Just straight up carpetbagging / corruption. Trump just wants to personally pocket taxpayer dollars. From your paycheck to his pockets.
- JohnFen 1y ago
  He's easily the most corrupt president in my lifetime, running the most corrupt administration in my lifetime. And I'm old. It's genuinely mind-boggling.
zerosizedweasle 1y ago
No joke, the sitting president is demanding 230 million from his own Justice Department
- fuzzfactor 1y ago
  Just have to wait and see if it's an offer you can't refuse. Or maybe he will alter the deal.
- Tadpole9181 1y ago
  He's asking his own personal lawyers, which he installed as the head of the Justice department.
- andsoitis 1y ago
  > the sitting president is demanding 230 million There's some nuance. The two claims were filed before he was president, in 2023 and 2024. "The first claim, filed in 2023, seeks damages over the investigations into whether his 2016 presidential campaign had worked with Russia to help him win the election. The second, filed in 2024, accuses the FBI and DOJ of violating Trumps privacy during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and of malicious prosecution for the subsequent charges he faced over mishandling classified documents." and "While neither investigation resulted in Trump’s conviction (he was never charged in the Russia investigation and a federal judge tossed the classified documents case), the president has pointed to both as evidence that democratic officials weaponized the justice system against him." Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/trump-doj-request-230-mil-explained https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/trump-doj-request-23...
  - acdha 1y ago
    This is definitely messy: those claims would almost certainly have been thrown out in a fair DOJ because the FTCA specifically excludes claims over discretionary or policy actions, but the DOJ also had a policy of pausing civil claims while criminal proceedings were open for the same issue. Trump's Judge Cannon was successfully able to stall the criminal case until he was re-elected, at which point the DOJ dropped it due to the policy of not investigating a sitting president. This means that the claims are now being decided by people who report to his personal defense attorney in the case and know that their jobs are on the line if they do not decide in his favor. I don't think we've ever seen a case this corrupt at this level in the United States before.
Jtsummers 1y ago
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AnimalMuppet 1y ago
archive.is is blocked at my work. What rationale does he give for this? Any?
- duxup 1y ago
  He filed a lawsuit against the US government for its investigation into him during a time when he was not president. The investigations were regarding his handling of classified documents, election claims and so on. So now that he's president he's telling justice department to pay him.
  - AnimalMuppet 1y ago
    So now as president he can order his underlings to pay him, and none of us taxpayers can say "wait a minute, that's our money!", because we aren't parties to the suit. Lovely.
- tastyface 1y ago
  Trump's new ballroom costs $250M. What a crazy random happenstance.
- acdha 1y ago
  This is a non-paywalled link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/donald-trump-damages-federal-investigations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/donald-trump... https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-justice-department-177d42d89b97385132a927686d788d11 https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-justice-department-177d... > One of the administrative claims, filed in August 2024 and reviewed by The Associated Press, seeks compensatory and punitive damages over the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and the resulting case alleging he hoarded classified documents and thwarted government efforts to retrieve them. > His lawyer who filed the claim alleged the case was a “malicious prosecution” carried out by the Biden administration to hurt Trump’s bid to reclaim the White House, forcing Trump to spend tens of millions of dollars in his defense. > The Times said the other claim seeks damages related to the long-concluded Trump-Russia investigation, which continues to infuriate the president.

Just straight up carpetbagging / corruption. Trump just wants to personally pocket taxpayer dollars. From your paycheck to his pockets.

JohnFen 1y ago
He's easily the most corrupt president in my lifetime, running the most corrupt administration in my lifetime. And I'm old. It's genuinely mind-boggling.

zerosizedweasle 1y ago

No joke, the sitting president is demanding 230 million from his own Justice Department

fuzzfactor 1y ago
Just have to wait and see if it's an offer you can't refuse. Or maybe he will alter the deal.
Tadpole9181 1y ago
He's asking his own personal lawyers, which he installed as the head of the Justice department.
andsoitis 1y ago
> the sitting president is demanding 230 million There's some nuance. The two claims were filed before he was president, in 2023 and 2024. "The first claim, filed in 2023, seeks damages over the investigations into whether his 2016 presidential campaign had worked with Russia to help him win the election. The second, filed in 2024, accuses the FBI and DOJ of violating Trumps privacy during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and of malicious prosecution for the subsequent charges he faced over mishandling classified documents." and "While neither investigation resulted in Trump’s conviction (he was never charged in the Russia investigation and a federal judge tossed the classified documents case), the president has pointed to both as evidence that democratic officials weaponized the justice system against him." Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/trump-doj-request-230-mil-explained https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/trump-doj-request-23...
- acdha 1y ago
  This is definitely messy: those claims would almost certainly have been thrown out in a fair DOJ because the FTCA specifically excludes claims over discretionary or policy actions, but the DOJ also had a policy of pausing civil claims while criminal proceedings were open for the same issue. Trump's Judge Cannon was successfully able to stall the criminal case until he was re-elected, at which point the DOJ dropped it due to the policy of not investigating a sitting president. This means that the claims are now being decided by people who report to his personal defense attorney in the case and know that their jobs are on the line if they do not decide in his favor. I don't think we've ever seen a case this corrupt at this level in the United States before.

Jtsummers 1y ago

https://archive.is/5IvJS https://archive.is/5IvJS

AnimalMuppet 1y ago

archive.is is blocked at my work. What rationale does he give for this? Any?

duxup 1y ago
He filed a lawsuit against the US government for its investigation into him during a time when he was not president. The investigations were regarding his handling of classified documents, election claims and so on. So now that he's president he's telling justice department to pay him.
- AnimalMuppet 1y ago
  So now as president he can order his underlings to pay him, and none of us taxpayers can say "wait a minute, that's our money!", because we aren't parties to the suit. Lovely.
tastyface 1y ago
Trump's new ballroom costs $250M. What a crazy random happenstance.
acdha 1y ago
This is a non-paywalled link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/donald-trump-damages-federal-investigations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/donald-trump... https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-justice-department-177d42d89b97385132a927686d788d11 https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-justice-department-177d... > One of the administrative claims, filed in August 2024 and reviewed by The Associated Press, seeks compensatory and punitive damages over the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and the resulting case alleging he hoarded classified documents and thwarted government efforts to retrieve them. > His lawyer who filed the claim alleged the case was a “malicious prosecution” carried out by the Biden administration to hurt Trump’s bid to reclaim the White House, forcing Trump to spend tens of millions of dollars in his defense. > The Times said the other claim seeks damages related to the long-concluded Trump-Russia investigation, which continues to infuriate the president.