Trump Wants the American People to Pay Him $230 Million

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/opinion/trump-230-million-justice-department.html

https://archive.ph/0pTA8

Trump Wants the American People to Pay Him $230 Million
Oct. 22, 2025, 2:59 p.m. ET
By The Editorial Board

President Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice prosecute his political enemies. He has ordered his aides to use the fearsome tools of the law to investigate fund-raising by the Democratic Party and liberal groups who oppose him. He has spared his own supporters from the consequences of law breaking. And now, in a breathtaking act of self-dealing, he wants the department to hand over nearly a quarter-billion dollars of taxpayer money and place it in his personal bank account as payment for his personal grievances.

Given the eagerness of Justice Department officials to do his bidding, there is reason to expect he may get that money. One official authorized to approve the payment worked on Mr. Trump’s personal legal team, and another represented Trump allies. His Justice Department has already proved itself willing to put his interests above law and country.

Mr. Trump claims he is owed $230 million from the Justice Department as compensation for previous federal investigations of him, The Times reported on Tuesday. Those investigations looked into his refusal to turn over classified government documents he had taken from the White House and the contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russian operatives.

The president’s conflict of interest in this situation is so broad as to have no parallel in American history. One ethics expert called it a “travesty.” Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, called it “head spinning chutzpah.” Even Mr. Trump seemed to acknowledge the bizarre nature of the demand that the government he controls pay him a fortune. “I’m the one that makes the decision, and that decision would have to go across my desk, and it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself,” he said. But no sense of shame seems likely to stop his demand for payback. His promise to give the Treasury cash to charity adds to the outrage, given his record of exploiting philanthropy for personal gain.

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[Attilatheblond]

1. This American wants to send him a long piece of twisted hemp fibers

He can piss up it or whatever...

[chelsea0011]

2. I'd rather

just shit on him.

[Johonny]

3. I want to see him stand trial first

10 counts of obstruction of justice in the Russian Hoax . . .

[UTUSN]

4. He really thinks everybody's fooled with the "charity" crap. He could cut the middleman and

drop his ransom demand and pretend he got what he grifted/stole.

[herding cats]

5. He just said his ballroom is going to cost upwards of $300 million more.

So, I guess that would be $550 million now? He's just fundraising for his latest addition to his new digs.