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Once and future President Donald Trump formally notified the Just Us Department that they can settle his pending lawsuit with them for an even $100 million in damages. Suing any government agency is a tricky thing, if you’re allowed to sue them at all they create a whole bunch of flaming hoops to jump through. Those weed out the faint-hearted plaintiffs along the way. Trump’s legal team isn’t phased. They’re convinced they can collect what the DOJ owes for their “tortious” raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Donald Trump vs. DOJ

Donald Trump basically uses his Mar-a-Lago estate as a seat of government-in-exile. When the Just Us Department swooped in, illegally, to make a high-profile and well televised raid on his castle for classified documents, they opened themselves to civil legal action.

Before you can sue the DOJ you have to file a notice of claim. That’s what the lawyers took to the courthouse recently.

Trump is claiming $100 million in damages from “the government’s unprecedented 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida.” The one done with “clear intent to engage in political persecution.

They call that “tortious conduct by the United States.” It will be interesting to see how it develops. There’s little chance Merrick Garland will read the notice and say, “yeah, sure, we were wrong. write a check.

This is only one of the hoops to jump through. Eventually, “Trump and his legal team intend to sue the Justice Department for its conduct during the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022.

The federal investigation was supposed to be a dive “into his alleged improper retention of classified records.” Raids aren’t the way to get those from former presidents. After the raid, things really became an attempt to sway the election.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Smith’s case. His appointment as witch smeller wasn’t lawful.

Another Grand Inquisition

Appointing Robert Mueller as special prosecutor to conduct a witch hunt into non-existent collusion between Donald Trump and Russia blew up in their faces when the Durham report came out. Hillary Clinton was the one illegally colluding with Russia, in an illegal attempt to sway the 2016 election.

After the raid on Mar-a-Lago, evil Time Lord look-alike Jack Smith was appointed as a new witch smeller. The new Grand Inquisitor brought “37 felony counts against Trump, including willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements.

In July, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Smith’s case. His appointment as witch smeller wasn’t lawful according to the Appointments Clause in the Constitution.

Trump attorney Daniel Epstein filed the notice to sue just ahead of the one year anniversary of the raid. Garland has “180 days from the date of receipt to respond to Epstein’s notice and come to a resolution.” He’ll probably do nothing at all.

If no resolution is made, Trump’s case will move to federal court in the Southern District of Florida. That’s when the fun will start. By then, he should be safely back behind the Resolute Desk, where he belongs. “What President Trump is doing here is not just standing up for himself — he is standing up for all Americans who believe in the rule of law and believe that you should hold the government accountable when it wrongs you,” Epstein relates in a statement to the press.

It was “clear dereliction of constitutional principles, inconsistent standards as applied to” Trump and a “clear intent to engage in political persecution — not to advance good law enforcement practices.

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