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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

NYT reported Tues that #Trump “is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.” Those are #DOJ probes into connections between Trump’s 2016 campaign & #Russia’s intelligence activities intended to help him win that election, & Trump’s alleged violation of the #Espionage Act, & other laws, by evading DOJ efforts to recover highly #ClassifiedDocuments that Trump lifted from the White House….

#law
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/trump-justice-doj-settlement-230-million/

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

…Whether #Trump will get his payout is officially up to #DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General, or the Associate Attorney General who oversees the agency’s civil division. Those jobs are held respectively by #ToddBlanche, a former Trump lawyer who represented Trump on the Mar-a-Lago case, & #StanleyWoodward, who represented a Trump co-defendant in that case, along with various current Trump aides.

#criminal #law #corruption

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#Trump said Tues that the federal govt owes him “a lot of money”for prior #DOJ investigations into his actions & insisted *he* would have the ultimate say on any payout because any decision will “have to go across my desk.”

“All I know is that, they would owe me a lot of money.”

Though the DOJ has a protocol for reviewing such claims, Trump asserted, “It’s interesting, ‘cause I’m the one that makes the decision, right?”

“That decision would have to go across my desk.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-justice-department-177d42d89b97385132a927686d788d11

AP News

Trump says he'd have final say on money he seeks over past federal investigations into his conduct

President Donald Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insists that any decision on a payout would “have to go across my desk.”
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