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President Donald Trump steered on Tuesday that the Division of Justice (DOJ) owes him cash for previous prosecutions towards him.
Within the Oval Workplace, a reporter requested Trump if he was in search of compensation from the DOJ over previous federal investigations into him and, in that case, how a lot he was in search of.
“Effectively, I suppose they in all probability owe me some huge cash for that,” Trump mentioned in response. “No, I get no wage. I gave up my wage. It is a good wage. Not as a lot as these guys make, however that is OK. It is some huge cash, and I do not, as you understand, I did not take it within the first 4 years. I did not take it these 4 years both.”
“However so far as the entire litigation, every little thing that is been concerned, yeah, they in all probability owe me some huge cash,” the president added. “But when I get cash from our nation, I will do one thing good with it. Like, give it to charity or give it to the White Home whereas we restore the White Home, and we’re doing an amazing job with the White Home, as you understand, the ballroom is below development.”
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President Donald Trump gestures as he hosts a Rose Backyard Membership lunch on the White Home in Washington, D.C., Oct. 21, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The New York Instances reported sources as saying Trump is in search of roughly $230 million in compensation from the Justice Division for investigations into him.
Trump informed reporters Tuesday that he was “not on the lookout for cash,” however that they “must ask the legal professionals about that.”
“We’ll see what occurs,” Trump mentioned. “We have now quite a few circumstances having to do with the fraud of the election, the 2020 election, and due to every little thing that we discovered, I suppose they owe me some huge cash. However I am not on the lookout for cash. I am on the lookout for — actually, I believe it is acquired to be, it is acquired to be dealt with in a correct means… We do not need it to occur once more. We are able to by no means let what occurred within the 2020 election occur once more. We simply cannot let that occur.”
He was later pressed once more in regards to the precise greenback quantity within the request and mentioned, “I do not know what the quantity is. I do not even speak to them about it.”
Trump then remarked that the choice must come throughout his desk, saying that it will be “awfully unusual to decide the place I am paying myself.”
Legal professional Common Pam Bondi speaks as President Donald Trump seems on throughout a press convention within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Oct. 15, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)
Nevertheless, the Instances famous that the DOJ’s guidelines state that settlement claims towards the division that exceed $4 million “should be accredited by the Deputy Legal professional Common, or Affiliate Legal professional Common, as acceptable.”
It’s unclear the place the claims or negotiations with the DOJ stand. Nevertheless, The Related Press famous that the ties between Trump and people approved to decide on the settlement might current issues.
Deputy Legal professional Common Todd Blanche served as one in all Trump’s attorneys within the Mar-a-Lago case. Moreover, Affiliate Legal professional Common Stanley Woodward represented Trump’s co-defendant, Walt Nauta, within the Mar-a-Lago case.
“In any circumstance, all officers on the Division of Justice comply with the steering of profession ethics officers,” DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin mentioned in an announcement to Fox Information Digital.
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The investigations embody the FBI’s 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago as a part of the categorised paperwork case and one other probe wanting into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign. In response to the Instances, the primary declare was filed in late 2023 and was in relation to the Russia probe, whereas the second — which targeted on the Mar-a-Lago raid — was filed in the summertime of 2024.
The Instances reported Tuesday that Trump had submitted complaints by an administrative declare course of, noting that it’s one thing that always precedes lawsuits.
President Donald Trump throughout a bilateral assembly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Monday, April 7, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
Regardless of the president saying that he would donate the funds, some Democrats painted the report for example of Trump making an attempt to counterpoint himself.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., mentioned on Wednesday morning that the president was wanting “to line his personal pockets, or he says now to present to a charity of his alternative.” The senator added to the accusation, saying Trump was “specializing in getting $230 million that he would not deserve again into his pocket as a substitute of serving to the American folks get healthcare.”
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Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who was in the course of an hours-long speech, slammed Trump for “suing the federal government, then instructing his Division of Justice to settle the go well with, thereby translating cash into the president’s pocket out of the federal government.”
Merkley then remarked that “there isn’t a restrict to the self-serving” and referred to as for his colleagues, significantly Republicans, to talk out towards the president.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home for remark.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
