Trump Tires Of Sneaky Grifts, Announces Plan To Steal $230 Million Direct From Treasury

He'll take a check ... and sign it!

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the president is about to steal $230 million from American taxpayers. Trump demands “compensation” because the government dared to investigate him when he was in office and indict him as a private citizen for storing classified documents in his toilet.

“It sort of looks bad, I’m suing myself, right?” he admitted with a grin, seamlessly merging himself with the entire United States government. But he simply could not walk away from “a lawsuit that was very strong, very powerful” and so “that decision would have to go across my desk.”

L’État, c’est moi!

Literally none of that except the part about it “looking bad” is true. There is no lawsuit, “very powerful” or otherwise. It would be wholly inappropriate for such a decision to come across the president’s desk. And Trump has no cognizable claim for compensation, which is why he hasn’t sued in any court of law.

This is an act of naked corruption.

Federal Tort Claims Act

Donald Trump files a lot of garbage lawsuits — he once sued Hillary Clinton and James Comey for doing THE RICO to him, for which Trump was sanctioned $1 million for bringing a frivolous lawsuit. But Trump also talks a lot of smack, and so no one was quite sure if he was serious in August of 2024, when his lawyer Daniel Epstein went on Fox Business and sweatily vowed to sue the Justice Department over the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago. Epstein, who frequently files extortionate media lawsuits on Trump’s behalf, demanded $100 million for “intrusion upon seclusion, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process resulting from the August 8, 2022, raid of his and his family’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.”

As a general matter, the Federal Tort Claims Act bars lawsuits against the government, except in some very specific circumstances. It also requires a complainant to give the government notice of any claim and six months to either accept or deny it. What Epstein did back in August of 2024 was file a Standard Form 95, published yesterday by the Times, in which he put the DOJ on notice of Trump’s putative injuries.

The Times reports that Trump filed another SF 95 in 2023 demanding recompense for the Mueller investigation. Such a claim, if it were legally cognizable (it’s not), would appear to be long past the statute of limitations. The FTCA requires claims to be presented within two years of the injury, and, if the agency fails to respond after six months, the claim is deemed denied. After a denial the claimant has a further six months to sue, after which any lawsuit is barred. So, under whatever fakakta theory Trump says he was harmed by his own Justice Department during the Russia investigation, it’s certainly too late for him to recover.