zerosizedweasle
4 months ago
No joke, the sitting president is demanding 230 million from his own Justice Department
andsoitis
3 months 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-23...
acdha
3 months 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.
fuzzfactor
4 months ago
Just have to wait and see if it's an offer you can't refuse.
Or maybe he will alter the deal.
Tadpole9181
4 months ago
He's asking his own personal lawyers, which he installed as the head of the Justice department.