Hi there, everyone.

It's four o'clock in New York.

We come on the air with breaking news of a potential $230 million shakedown of the American taxpayer by one Donald J. Trump.

Brand new reporting in the New York Times reveals that Donald Trump

is demanding $230 million from the taxpayers as compensation for investigations into him by the

Department of Justice. People familiar with the matter tell the Times this, quote,

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 FBI and special counsel investigation into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016

Trump campaign. The second complaint filed in the summer of 2024, accuses the FBI

of violating Trump's privacy by searching Mar-a-Lago. That's his club and residence in Florida

in 2022 for classified documents. The mountain of ethical red flag

surrounding Donald Trump now demanding $230 million from the government he leads with his own

attorney general set to sign off on any settlement with him are so obvious, even Trump appears to be capable of grasping it.

Here's what he said on this last week.

I have a lawsuit that was doing very well.

And when I became president, I said, I'm sort of suing myself.

I don't know.

And he has settled the lawsuit.

I'll say, give me X dollars, right?

Yeah. So now we know X is 230 million buckaroos from us, the taxpayers.

Your Times goes on to report it will be paid by taxpayers if his former defense lawyers turned top-tier leaders of the Justice Department

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