Hi Kristin,
Recently, news broke that President Trump is demanding the Department of Justice pay him $230 million for past cases.
The ethical conflicts are obvious. The two people who could agree to pay these claims are Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Stanley Woodward Jr., Chief of the Justice Department's Civil Division. Blanche served as Mr. Trump's lead criminal defense lawyer and even claimed during his confirmation hearing that his attorney-client relationship with the president continued. And Woodward represented Trump's co-defendant in one of the very cases he’s now asking for compensation for, as well as representing a number of other Trump aides.
So to be clear: the President is asking his own former employees, people with whom he has long and close relationships, to award him hundreds of millions of dollars. And that money would be paid by the American people.
That's not politics as usual. That's theft, specifically stealing from taxpayers, and it's similar to the way drug cartels and organized crime operate.
Enough is enough. It's time to say no to cartel politics.
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