DOJ agency claims it has no records of Trump's shady IRS settlement

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

June 11, 2026 9:50PM ET


A Department of Justice division claimed it had no records related to President Donald Trump's IRS settlement, a watchdog reported.

According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the DOJ's Civil Division came up empty-handed when responding to a request for records related to the settlement that led to Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.

The $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund came out of a settlement in the case Trump v. IRS, a $10 billion lawsuit over the leaking of the Trump family and organization's tax returns. CREW filed the request to see DOJ documents related to the settlement that created the fund, but "DOJ's Civil Division claims to have no record of so much as being notified about Trump's case," the watchdog reported.

CREW was expecting some paper trail, given the amount of money involved and the fact that it was the first time a sitting president had sued and settled a case with their own administration.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/doj-anti-weaponization-fund-2677030874/

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[Lovie777]

1. Dirty.......................

corrupt, fraud, unpatriotic.

[underpants]

2. So POOF it just happened. No emails, no meetings, nothing.

Incredible

[hadEnuf]

3. The DOJ has been completely corrupted by Trump and his fascists.

As if we believe anything they have to say.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Well...

[Bayard]

6. Except that WE get arrested for it!

[SergeStorms]

17. And if we owe the IRS money.....

interest and penalties are compounded daily.

Just not for Dozy-Dementia-Don, his family, and his billionaire pals. They get the gold mine, we get the shaft. (All apologies to Jerry Reed.)

[sop]

5. The $10 billion IRS suit was just Trump's illegal scheme to "pardon" himself for existing and future tax liabilities.

A presidential pardon can forgive criminal liability and fines for federal tax evasion, but it cannot forgive the underlying civil tax liabilities, penalties, or interest; the pardoned individual would still have to pay back taxes and civil debts owed to the government. Essentially, Trump illegally pardoned himself for his IRS tax liabilities.

In all likelihood, Trump will also issue a presidential pardon to himself before his term is over. That's illegal as well, but he'll do it anyway.

[aggiesal]

11. I believe that the Pardon law needs to be updated ...

that a President can't pardon anyone that's committed crimes on his/her behalf or while working in their administration during the time the crime was committed.
Otherwise it's the textbook definition of corruption.

[patphil]

12. I feel the same way.

If the President can pardon people who commit crimes in his name, then he's no different from the criminals he pardoned. He's simply the crime boss who has his underlings do his dirty work.

[melm00se]

14. Pardon power

is not derived from legislation but rather from the Constitution, so changes will require a constitutional amendment.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Dear God. It was a back room deal.

Wink, wink. Nudge nudge.

Yup. This one won’t make it past the expiration of this Administration’s term. If nothing else, there should have been a settlement agreement.

[mdbl]

8. The Senate needs to remove the asshole Blanche

Of course, with the spineless weenies in charge of the Senate, this won't happen.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. If there's no record

There’s no deal. As soon as the criminal organization is removed, start the audits immediately and impose all appropriate fines.

[Midnight Writer]

10. Did they look in the Mar-a-Lagos bathroom? He likes to keep the important stuff in there.

[WestMichRad]

13. "Records? We don't need no stinkin' records!"

“Records are for woke libruls!”

[republianmushroom]

15. Damn, my unlawful, lying DOJ at it again.

[choie]

16. Didn't we hear the same thing about the Epstein files (at first)?

Goddamn corrupt liars.