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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

Former Trump adviser lambastes president’s demand for $230 million from the DOJ: ‘This is taxpayer dollars’

One of CNN’s resident MAGA defenders knocked Donald Trump over the president’s demand that the Justice Department pay him $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, noting that the public likely wouldn’t have an appetite for the commander-in-chief personally taking “taxpayer dollars.”

On top of that, David Urban – a former senior adviser to president’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns – said that Trump businesses were not “harmed” by the DOJ criminal probes, and nobody “would say” that Trump deserves the taxpayer money.

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