Harry Litman - The $230 Million Theft in Broad Daylight
The Louvre heist earlier this week grabbed headlines for the brazen theft in broad daylight of French crown jewels valued at over $100 million. Not to be outdone, Donald Trump is hoping to pull off a score of more than twice as much.
$230 million—the amount Donald Trump says the government owes him for its investigations into and two indictments of him—is a lot of money. It would weigh a little over two metric tons and fill roughly 100 heavy satchels, each about 50 pounds. Picture Trump ordering five of his most ingratiating servants—Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi, Ed Martin Jr., Alina Habba, and Lindsey Halligan—to use a furniture lift to break into Fort Knox and haul out one satchel after another.
That would be no more brazen or illegal than what Trump is now proposing: a $230 million swindle of the Department of Justice and the American taxpayer, ostensibly to compensate him for the investigations and the Mar-a-Lago search.
Trump’s scheme quickly collides with a set of well-established legal barriers that leave no doubt he’s not entitled to a penny. His claim, in fact, is laughable. But that doesn’t mean he won’t try to get away with it, applying his familiar mindset: Who’s going to stop me?
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/the-230-million-theft-in-broad-daylight
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