President Trump demanded $230 million in compensation from the Justice Department for the federal investigations into him.
Any settlement must be approved by senior DOJ officials, according to The New York Times,
President Trump submitted his first complaint in 2023 and claimed his rights were violated during the special counsel investigation into whether Russia election meddling.
Trump’s second complaint, filed in summer 2024, is seeking damages over Biden’s FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago residence. Trump accused the DOJ of malicious prosecution.
The claim accuses former Attorney General Merrick Garland, former Special Counsel Jack Smith and former FBI Director Wray of “harassment” according to The Times.
“This malicious prosecution led President Trump to spend tens of millions of dollars defending the case and his reputation,” the claim said.
The New York Times reported:
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.
Mr. Trump submitted complaints through an administrative claim process that often is the precursor to lawsuits. The first claim, lodged in late 2023, seeks damages for a number of purported violations of his rights, including the F.B.I. and special counsel investigation into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016 Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the claim has not been made public.
The second complaint, filed in the summer of 2024, accuses the F.B.I. of violating Mr. Trump’s privacy by searching Mar-a-Lago, his club and residence in Florida, in 2022 for classified documents. It also accuses the Justice Department of malicious prosecution in charging him with mishandling sensitive records after he left office.
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith spoke out for the first time about his politically motivated investigations into President Trump during a sit-down conversation with dirty prosecutor Andrew Weissmann at the University of London last week.
Jack Smith defended his cases against Trump and said the idea that politics would play a role in his cases is “absolutely ludicrous.”
Jack Smith was appointed as Special Counsel in 2022 by Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump just one day after Trump announced his 2024 bid for the White House.
Several months later, in August 2022, Biden sent machine-gun-toting federal agents to raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
In June 2023, Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate, which was protected by Secret Service agents.
Trump was charged with 31 counts under the Espionage Act of willful retention of national defense information and six other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.
In a separate case in Washington DC, Jack Smith indicted Trump on four counts: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
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