The Needle: Trump Says He’s Owed $230 Million and the White House Employee With a Self-Described “Nazi Streak” Withdraws Nomination To Lead the Office of Special Counsel

• No: Convicted felon and President Donald Trump is demanding taxpayers pay him $230 million to make up for the previous federal investigations into him. The payments would be approved by his underlings in the Justice Department, some of whom previously defended him in court. The massive potential settlement would be part of Trump’s complaints filed against the federal government, which are precursors to lawsuits; one deals with the investigation into Russian election interference, the other has to do with the FBI’s search for classified documents in Mar-a-Lago. Trump acknowledged the situation “sort of looks bad, I’m suing myself, right?” Pace University law and ethics professor Bennett Gershman told the Times: “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law p