Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
It's no more absurd than if you sue any public body, they don't pay the fine or compensation, you and me and all the other taxpayers do. Just one example, a few years back the BBC had to pay legal costs to Cliff Richard of around ?2 million. Didn't cost anyone at the BBC a penny, they just took it out of the licence fee money we'd paid them.
Never before in the history of the US Constitution has a POTUS used his position for such self-awarded indulgence. The man is a grifter on the grandest of scales. It's such a pity the shooter couldn't shoot.