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

Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager, reporting for The New York Times:

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.

Subject only to the approval of his own lickspittle cronies.

Jim Ray:

In the world where Antonin Scalia dies six months earlier and RBG retires at some point before the third cancer diagnosis, a bankrupt Trump sits in a maximum security prison and costs us a single Secret Service patrol.

★ Tuesday, 21 October 2025