President Donald Trump's plan to seek $230 million from the Justice Department as a settlement for investigations he faced during the Biden administration and his first term in office is unparalleled in American history, according to an ABC News legal contributor. Trump is seeking damages related to the investigation he faced surrounding allegations of his 2016 campaign's ties to the Russian government and the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents in August 2022. Approval of the payout, resulting from two administrative claims that were submitted by attorneys for Trump while he was out of office in 2023 and 2024, would likely first need sign-off from top officials in the department who previously served as Trump's defense attorneys or otherwise represented his alli

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