Political Quotes

“President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million-- That is a lot of money. For folks in my neighborhood, $1 million seems like an unfathomable sum, and here, we are talking about $230 million, a quarter of a billion dollars-- in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter,-- This is an article by Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager on October 21, 2025, so hot off the press, if you will-- who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. So you have the President suing his own government, and he has the Justice Department in which there are people who were on his defense team now working who would be the ones to ultimately approve a settlement. This article goes on to say: The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by Federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims.”