US President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Department of Justice likely owed him damages, after a report that he was seeking millions of dollars in compensation for past investigations.

The New York Times reported that lawyers for the Republican were demanding around $230 million in compensation for federal probes into him before he was elected president for a second time.

“That decision would have to go across my desk. And it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the report.

“But I was damaged very greatly.”

Trump added of the Department of Justice that “they probably owe me a lot of money — if I get money from our country, I will do something nice with it like to give it to charity or give it to the Whi

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