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.”
He did demand the exact same amount that the ballroom costs. I doubt that’s a coincidence. It would be just like his brand of stupidity to do that, and think nobody will figure out what’s really happening.