US justice department 'forever' bars IRS from auditing Trump's past tax returns

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies

The justice department quietly added a provision barring the IRS from auditing Donald Trump’s tax returns on Tuesday, amending a widely criticized agreement that creates a secretive and loosely controlled $1.776bn fund to compensate allies of the president.

The addendum, signed by Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, says the government is “forever barred” and “precluded” from examining the tax returns of Trump, his family, company and “related companies”. The agreement applies to anything filed before the agreement was reached. It was posted on the justice department website on Tuesday morning, a day after the department announced creation of the fund.
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The Tuesday amendment was released shortly after Blanche testified in a Senate hearing in which Democrats harshly criticized the agreement. “This is an outrageous, unprecedented slush fund that you set up,” said Chris van Hollen, a Maryland senator.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns

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Because Trump couldn't wait to get money out of this scandal by getting someone to bribe him for a payout from the slush fund; he wants guaranteed money.

As I have already said, he'll end up demanding his tax returns get him the Nobel Prize for Literature.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

1. Oh FFS...

These people.

[tonekat]

2. Just burn it all down

Everything that belongs to Republicans...just burn it.

[Norrrm]

3. DOJ can MAKE laws? That cannot be changed?

https://www.usa.gov/agencies/u-s-department-of-justice

[pat_k]

22. Guess they got "enforce" and "ignore" and "make up from whole cloth" mixed up.

Easy to do. Like mixing up... well, i don't know, but they are there doing some damn thing about the law.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. It's just more cover-up for his many financial crimes.

I imagine that someone will sue to block this, though where it ends up in the courts is anybody's guess.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Not legally binding

The next Dem AG can toss it in the shredder, and Trump can refile his $10 billion lawsuit.

Blanche must know he will be disbarred for this.

[angrychair]

14. Exactly what I came to say

Unless the AG suddenly got pardon power that isn't how any of this works.

I mean Mango Mussolini can pardon himself I guess, which I assume he will do, but the AG cannot pardon anyone.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

17. They probably gave Blanche enough of a bribe...

...so that he never has to work again.

[quakerboy]

20. Not when trump is made president for life

[Fiendish Thingy]

24. Meanwhile, in the reality based community...nt

[pat_k]

23. They are all in a level of denial that is beyond anything I've ever witnessed in action.

They actually believe they are "advancing" their careers.

They believe trumpublicanism is our future.

They are like school bullies who stick their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when confronted with anything they don't like to think about.

We have a choice about what the next 10 years will look like. And it's up to us to commit, NOW, to making it so.

Imagine If This Moment Was Not About The Ascent of Authoritarians, But About A New Birth Of Global Freedom...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221186840

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. First, why would that be necessary? What are they trying to hide?

Second, good luck enforcing that beyond the rapist Felons term.

[LoisB]

7. Bull-shyte!

[sboatcar]

8. The next AG can just reverse all that, right?

[angrychair]

15. Yes

This edict expires with his time in office.

[republianmushroom]

9. US justice department, what a Fucking joke.

[dweller]

10. Blanche will be adding

addendums till the end of the Pisswig’s reign to cover all the laws he will continue to break

😑



✌🏻

[multigraincracker]

11. Subject to change after the elections.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

12. This is not a settlement that is based on the law.

IF, and that's a big IF, we return to a country of laws, this agreement will have no force of law.

[C_U_L8R]

13. A Democratic Congress will care as much as honey badger

Fuck the Trumps’ feelings and worthless provisions.

[lpbk2713]

16. I was sure this was going to be from The Onion

Unfuggenbelievable.

Not only Trump but the whole gang of thieves and liars?

[mdbl]

18. and the corruption marches on

The United States of Corruption.

[Katcat]

19. SOAFB

This is totally unacceptable! What use are the democrats if they’re sitting on their hands and acting like Susan Collins!

[pat_k]

21. A pile of shit is still a pile of shit.

I'm not a lawyer, but I can't imagine that ANYTHING about this corrupt agreement is lawful or enforceable upon the IRS or DOJ under legitimate leadership.

[orangecrush]

25. Blanche is going to jail

[oldmanlynn]

26. This could all change with next Congress next administration

If a Democratic president gets in, he can put in whoever he wants and they can change that. Even Congress could change that when in the Democrats hands.