President Trump is attempting to make the Department of Justice pay him $230 million for opening investigations into him while Joe Biden was president, according to The New York Times.

Such a payment would have to be approved by senior department officials, who also happen to be former Trump lawyers and advisers that the president himself installed.

The report from the Times, which cites “people familiar with the matter,” says Trump filed two claims, one in 2023 and another in 2024, seeking damages for supposed violations of his rights related to the Russiagate investigation and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents raid.

The current status of these claims is unknown. In a press conference Tuesday afternoon in the Oval Office, Trump, 79, appeared not to know that he was asking the DOJ

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