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Trump demands DOJ pay him $230m for cases against him. His ex-lawyers Blanche and Bondi will likely decide claim (www.independent.co.uk)

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Justice Department, under the Biden administration, investigated Trump for mishandling classified documents

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[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

This guy is the Grifter's grifter. It's reaching mythological proportions; by which I mean that when stories are told about this time in the far future people won't believe it actually happened because wtf!

[–] henfredemars 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At what point does it stop being a scam and start being a mugging?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

When your bank account is over 7 figures or you run "a business". Then it's just "legal trouble" instead of "crime"

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

What happened to qualified immunity?

Like if we are going to have a system that makes it impossible to punish the doj at least use it against the bad guys too. Like damn, could you at least pretend it’s not one big con?