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Even those who’ve come to expect routine corruption from Donald Trump were taken aback when The New York Times reported in October that the president “is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.” Two months later, this is apparently still on the Republican’s mind — though the financial target is now vastly higher. To briefly recap, Trump confirmed in late October that he believes he’s entitled to a payoff from the government, declaring that Justice Department officials “owe me a lot of money.” While claiming he was “damaged very greatly” by the investigations into his many alleged felonies, Trump added that it would ultimately be up to him to approve a payout to himself. The head-spinning circumstances remain utterly bizarre: The Justice Department investigated a suspected criminal. The suspected criminal was then elected president, enabling him to take control of the Justice Department. The suspected criminal now expects the Justice Department to stuff “a lot” of taxpayer money into his pockets because of a conspiracy-minded, self-pitying sense of entitlement and being enabled by a Congress that won't force him to follow laws, act with honor, nor show any morales.