First, a $1.8 Billion Slush Fund. Now Trump Aims to Weasel Out of IRS Audits “Forever” |
A new addendum to the so-called settlement agreement between Trump and Trump—that is, the Department of Justice and Donald Trump’s personal lawyers—will “forever” prohibit the United States from seeking any claim or initiating any IRS enforcement action or audit against Donald Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and the Trump Organization, based on any previous filings.
The order appeared on Tuesday in a supplementary document signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and posted on the DOJ website.
This is madness.
On Friday, Donald Sherman, president of the legal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told me that Trump’s underlying $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS was “a stunningly corrupt attempt for the president to take taxpayer money and put it in his pocket.”
“Having the IRS agree to no audits of the President, his family and their businesses is unheard of.”
On Monday, the DOJ then rolled out terms for a $1.8 billion restitution fund, essentially controlled by Trump, to compensate the supposed victims of the agency’s “weaponization”—namely, Trump’s allies who ran afoul of the law, including the hooligans who ransacked the Capitol and attacked police officers on his behalf on January 6, 2021.
The DOJ is presenting the fund as a settlement. But Judge Kathleen Williams’ order on Monday dismissing the........