President Donald Trump is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the Justice Department for federal investigations into him, according to reporting from .

Trump is reportedly seeking compensation for federal investigations over Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election and the FBI's search of his Florida home in 2022 for classified documents.

Multiple legal ethics experts told Scripps News there are major concerns that the DOJ officials who could oversee potential damage payments may be the same attorneys who have represented him in the past.

"I think we have huge ethical concerns here with this claim, because the claim is being made by President Trump to his own Department of Justice, where his private lawyers still work," said Laurie Levenson, a law professor

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