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Trump muses about awarding himself $1 billion payout as part of Justice Department complaints

20 December 2025 08:35 (UTC +04:00)

President Donald Trump says he may elect to award himself a massive sum in connection with complaints he filed about past Justice Department investigations into him, APA reports, citing CNN.

“I brought a lawsuit and I’m winning the lawsuit. There’s only one problem. I’m the one that has to settle it,” he told his crowd in North Carolina on Friday. “In other words, I am suing and I’m the one that’s supposed to settle. So maybe I’ll give myself $1 billion and give it all to charity.”

Trump submitted the complaints in 2023 and 2024, before he was reelected. They seek damages for alleged rights violations derived from the investigation into Russian election interference in the 2016 campaign and his classified documents case — including accusing the FBI of violating his privacy when it searched his Florida estate in 2022.

Trump decried the Mar-a-Lago search in his Friday speech, saying his wife in particular felt violated by agents rummaging through her lingerie drawer.

“Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties, are folded perfect, wrapped. They’re like, so perfect. I said, that’s beautiful,” he said, adding: “I think she steams them.”

“She opened the drawers, and it was not that way. They were a mess. It was all over the place,” he went on.