Tamara Keith

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I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover the White House.

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President Trump was in North Carolina, nearing the end of a speech about the economy, when out of nowhere he started talking about the FBI search of his Florida resort in 2022.

Trump viewed it as a violation, an attack, the weaponization of the government against him.

So he filed a claim with the Justice Department seeking $230 million in damages.

Trump was out of office when the claim was first filed.

But then he won the 2024 election.

The charges against him were dropped.

And now Trump finds himself on both sides of the dispute.

In a recent interview with NBC's Tom Yamas...

Trump didn't do anything to bat down the suggestion that he would be the final decider.

But Trump wasn't just upset about those old Justice Department investigations.

He had more scores to settle and at the end of January filed another claim against the federal government.

A $10 billion lawsuit over the 2019 leak of his tax returns by an IRS contractor.

Congressional Democrats pressed top administration officials about this in recent weeks.