WASHINGTON — President Trump is seeking a potential financial settlement from the Justice Department to resolve his complaints of being targeted by FBI misconduct, The Post has learned.
The precise amount sought by the president to resolve a pair of complaints filed in 2023 and 2024 is unclear, but a New York Times report put the figure at up to $230 million.
Trump, 79, initially filed official paperwork challenging the FBI’s actions probing whether he colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election — which ultimately produced no such proof.
The president separately objected to the August 2022 raid of his Mar-a-Lago resort by FBI officials to retrieve classified documents.
“President Trump continues to fight back against all Democrat-led Witch Hunts, including the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax and the un-constitutional and un-American weaponization of our justice system by Crooked Joe Biden and his handlers,” a rep for Trump’s legal team said in a statement.
“In any circumstance, all officials at the Department of Justice follow the guidance of career ethics officials,” DOJ spokesman Chad Gilmartin said.
Trump’s former personal lawyer, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, runs day-to-day operations at the Justice Department.
