TOM demands 230 mil from DOJ for being "wronged".....hmmm nearly enough to build a ballroom

 

Oct 22, 2025 (275/1461)

I have to admit, this one I did not see coming. TOM is asking DOJ for $230 million. Convenient that about covers the new ballroom. “President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

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. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department. The second complaint, filed in the summer of 2024, accuses the F.B.I. of violating Mr. Trump’s privacy by searching Mar-a-Lago, his club and residence in Florida, in 2022 for classified documents. It also accuses the Justice Department of malicious prosecution in charging him with mishandling sensitive records after he left office. “What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”

He added: “And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.” Almost too outlandish to believe. But not with TOM in the house. No longer is anything too outlandish.

A shocking pushback from the Senate to Hegsloth on his dictum about the press. “The Senate is considering a hold on Pentagon nominees if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new congressional communications memo is fully implemented. According to the memo obtained by NBC News, Department of Defense (DOD) personnel, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will now have to get approval from the legislative affairs office before communicating with Congress.

News of the policy did not sit well with senior senators, including Republicans who voted to confirm Hegseth as defense secretary. “Unauthorized engagements with Congress by [Department of War] personnel acting in their official capacity, no matter how well-intentioned, may undermine Department-wide priorities critical to achieving our legislative objectives,” the memo states. 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, called it a “concealment policy” that has to end. Cornyn said he does not want to be Chicken Little and act as if the sky is falling, given the power Congress has. “You’ve got to trust your chain of command. This is too large of an organization to have that kind of a tight clamp on it,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told reporters. “Particularly when we have members that want specific answers, not going through protocol.” 

In addition to blocking nominations, Congress also has subpoena power. It can also try to reverse the new policy in the 2026 NDAA, which has yet to be approved. If included in the NDAA, it would no longer be a policy but a law.”