What is to be done when a former president faces criminal prosecution, escapes findings of wrongdoing, submits administrative claims against the government seeking $230 million as recompense for massive legal trouble and bills, regains power, and installs loyalists at the DOJ who are then in position to reward those claims?

The legal world was abuzz Tuesday as a New York Times story raised these very questions about President Donald Trump's previously unknown pending claim over the Russia probe and a known Federal Tort Claims Act grievance over eventually invalidated special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents investigation.

As the Times noted, these administrative claims are not lawsuits themselves but precursors thereto. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former crimi

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