Newsmax judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano argued that President Donald Trump's reported demand that the Justice Department pay him $230 million was a "nonstarter."

Napolitano responded to the reports after Trump confirmed on Tuesday that he was seeking a settlement from his Justice Department related to investigations into Russia's election meddling and classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.

"If you were to ask me how this has been treated by history, I would tell you, there is no historical paradigm," the analyst laughed. "This has never happened before. A president of the United States suing his own Justice Department for what he says a previous Justice Department did to him while he was a private citizen."

"Is there a cause of action?" he continued. "The federal government h

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