Opinion: Holding Trump Accountable Is the First Step to Unrigging the System
David Rothkopf
Let us start with the plain facts, please.
The president of the United States has not reached a settlement with the United States government regarding the IRS release of his files. There was no case to be settled. A judge was about to throw it out. The case they asserted existed was meritless. The president was effectively on both sides of the issue, seeking to use a fabricated claim of harm as leverage in a negotiation with himself.
Nor is an element of that settlement an agreement between the president and the Department of Justice to refrain from every prosecuting the president for any issue pertaining to his taxes, those of his family and those of their businesses.
They assert there is such an agreement. But that “agreement” is wholly illegal. Asserting that there is such an agreement, that it is enforceable, and then enforcing it is an act of self-dealing and of violating the oaths of office of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Trump himself.
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