Donald Trump might be in jail if he had not won the 2024 presidential election. And he might not have won the election if the Supreme Court hadn’t invented an expansive form of immunity to protect him from the consequences of his criminal actions.

And now it’s time for Trump to get paid—with your tax dollars.

Wait, what?

Yes, Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice give him $230 million as compensation for being the subject of past federal investigations, according to The New York Times. He’s reportedly submitted his claims through an administrative claim process, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and he has apparently done a bit of back-of-the-envelope math to come up with the idea that the U.S. taxpayers owe him nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.

Before we get into exa

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