Former White House Ethics Lawyer Calls Out Trump Over This 'Profit-Grabbing Exploitation'
Source: Huff Post
Oct 22, 2025, 09:31 PM EDT
Norm Eisen slammed Donald Trump on Wednesday over the president’s reported demand for the Justice Department to reimburse him $230 million for money he spent defending himself against federal criminal probes and charges. “Nobody’s ever seen the kind of profit-grabbing exploitation of the presidency,” said the former Obama White House ethics lawyer on MSNBC.
Trump’s nine-figure request — first reported by The New York Times — may ultimately get approved by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who served as the president’s personal attorney. One critic described the proposed payment as the “most corrupt act in presidential history.”
Trump reportedly filed two administrative complaints against the DOJ: one related to the investigations into 2016 Russian interference claims and another tied to the probe into mishandled classified documents.
Eisen, when asked if he ever “envisioned” such a situation, noted that he once wouldn’t let Barack Obama refinance his “small family home” in Chicago when he was regulating the banks amid the Great Recession. He noted that the Trump family is estimated to be making billions of dollars from both his terms.
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