U.S. President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium hosts a Rose Garden Club luncheon astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., October 21, 2025.
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President Donald Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice wage him a whopping $230 cardinal successful compensation for its transgression investigations of him aft his archetypal word successful the White House ended, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The Times noted that immoderate imaginable colony mightiness person to beryllium approved by radical helium has appointed during his 2nd term. One of them, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, antecedently represented Trump arsenic a defence lawyer successful transgression cases against the president.
Trump submitted complaints related to the DOJ's probes "through an administrative assertion process that is often the precursor to lawsuits," the paper reported.
One claim, submitted successful 2023, requests damages successful transportation with the DOJ's probe of interference successful the 2016 statesmanlike predetermination by Russia and imaginable connections to Trump's run that year, the Times said.
The different claim, filed successful mid-2024, accuses the FBI of violating Trump's rights by conducting a hunt of his Mar-a-Lago nine and residence successful 2022 arsenic portion of an probe into his retention of classified authorities documents aft leaving the White House astatine the extremity of his archetypal term.
Trump was indicted successful national tribunal successful Florida successful transportation with that probe connected charges of retaining those records and of interfering successful efforts by national authorities to retrieve them.
A justice tossed retired that case, and the DOJ yet dropped an entreaty of her determination and the full lawsuit aft Trump won the 2024 election.
The Times noted that Trump alluded to his claims during an lawsuit past week successful the Oval Office, portion lasting adjacent to Blanche, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel.
"I person a suit that was doing precise well, and erstwhile I became president, I said, I'm benignant of suing myself. I don't know, however bash you settee the lawsuit, I'll accidental springiness maine X dollars, and I don't cognize what to bash with the lawsuit," Mr. Trump said.
"It benignant of looks bad, I'm suing myself, right?," Trump said. "So I don't know. But that was a suit that was precise strong, precise powerful."
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