""Your plan to have your obedient underlings at the Department of Justice (DOJ) instruct the U.S. Treasury to pay you, personally, hundreds of millions of dollars ... is an outrageous and shocking attempt to shake down the American people," they wrote in a letter to Trump. "We urge you to renounce your plan publicly and assure the American people that their President is not pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars at their expense.""
""I have a lawsuit that was doing very well. And when I became president, I said: 'I'm sort of suing myself,'" he said during an Oval office appearance with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. "How do you settle the lawsuit? I'll say: 'Give me X dollars,' right? And I don't know what to do with the lawsuit - it's a great lawsuit.""
Ranking members Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia are leading a congressional probe into President Trump's plan to have the Department of Justice instruct the U.S. Treasury to pay him personally hundreds of millions of dollars through administrative claims. The lawmakers characterize the plan as an outrageous attempt to shake down the American people and demand a public renunciation. They requested documents including administrative claims filed with DOJ, correspondence between Trump's lawyers and DOJ attorneys, communications between White House and DOJ officials, internal DOJ memos and legal analyses, and records indicating the claims' current status. The White House did not immediately respond.
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