Democrats are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s reported demands that the Department of Justice pay him upwards of $200 million in restitution for its criminal investigations into him.
“It is completely absurd,” New York Rep. Dan Goldman told CNN. “The notion that there was anything wrong with those investigations is preposterous, and then to demand that his own Justice Department, his own employees, pay him $200 million, for who knows what, is a shakedown of his own government.”
The New York Times first reported Trump’s demands on Tuesday, writing that the request “has no parallel in American history.”