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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is trying to pay himself $230 million in taxpayer money.

Wait, what? The payment, which was first reported Tuesday by the New York Times, would take the form of compensation for two administrative claims Trump has filed against the Justice Department over investigations into his 2016 campaign’s ties with Russia, and over the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago and later DOJ indictment over his retention of classified documents upon leaving the White House in 2021.

Can he do that? It’s shockingly, cartoonishly unethical — one source described it to the Times as “so basic and f

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