President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s probably owed “a lot of money,” responding to a newspaper report that he was seeking $230 million US in damages related to two investigations into his conduct.
The New York Times reported Trump had filed administrative claims before he was re-elected last November, concerning both the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents and for a separate investigation years earlier into potential ties between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign.
The status of the claims and any negotiations over them within the Justice Department was not immediately clear. A Justice Department spokesperson told The Associated Press that “in any circumstance, all officials at the Department of Justice follow the guidance of career ethics officials.”
But Trump, in his response to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, said any decision would “have to go across my desk.”
We all know the real money for him is in the bribes anyway.
It was supposed to make everyone feel okay about him literally destroying the White House when he said that it would be paid by private donations from him and some of his “friends” (look everybody, I have rich friends).
But I’ve watched this joker long enough to know that he will strongarm the Sociopathic Oligarchs to donate, collect a billion dollars, spend $250 million on his boondoggle (and stiff most of the contractors, especially the small ones who can’t fight back), and pocket the rest.
It’s just another cash grab from his followers.