DOJ agrees to drop any pending tax claims against Trump as part of IRS deal
By: Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an agreement Tuesday declaring the federal government will not seek any sort of audit or payment from the president, his family members and companies on pending tax claims as part of Donald Trump's settlement agreement with the IRS.
In a sweeping one-page addendum to Monday's settlement agreement establishing a nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, Blanche agreed that the U.S. is "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims," including "monetary relief," that "have been or could have been" asserted by the IRS against Trump, his family or his businesses.
The addendum comes a day after the Justice Department announced that Trump and his co-plaintiffs would drop their $10 billion suit against the IRSand the Treasury Department over leaked tax returns, as well asclaims involving the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, and the Russian collusion scandal "in exchange" for creating the fund, which the Justice Department said set up a "systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare."
The addendum blocks the U.S. from seeking damages that could have been asserted against the plaintiffs — Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric and their company — as well as other family members and their companies in "any matters currently pending or that could be pending (including tax returns filed before the Effective Date) before Defendants or other agencies or departments."
The "effective date" would be May 18, the date the settlement was signed. The addendum does not specify which other agencies or departments it is referring to.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said the agreement is "only with respect to existing audits, not future."
The settlement and addendum were agreed to before a court-ordered deadline for this week that would have required the administration answer questions about the president's IRS lawsuit given his control over the Justice Department.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams, who was presiding over the case, ordered the matter closed Monday after the Trumps moved to dismissed their suit.
Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement Tuesday that Trump has "turned the federal government into his personal protection racket."
"This settlement is corruption in the plainest sight: forcing IRS to abandon every audit, past and present, into Trump, his family, and their businesses while steering $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars toward his friends, cronies, and Trump-affiliated companies is self-dealing at its most grotesque," the statement said.
"It's a dark, dark day for our democracy."
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Not only does Trump get a nearly $1.8 billion Thug Fund to pay off his criminal supporters, which will remain entirely secret, all of his and his family's tax fraud gets a free pass. Signed off on behalf of the U.S. government by Trump's personal attorney.
Corrupt much?
Trump belongs in jail. It is a failure of our system that he is not.
I just want to go cut a bitch right now. I cannot stand the blatant corruption going on and Congress does nothing about it
mike lindell says he deserves $400 million of it ...
How much will be going to the 1/9'ers?
Just realized something that would really stick in Trump's craw. If this goes through, with specific conditions attached, James Comey and Letitia James might qualify... Not to mention Hunter Biden.
That seems appropriate. If anyone deserves it he certainly does. What a great guy. Maybe he should get all $1.8 billion.
you can bet his girlfriend tina peters will be going after a big traitor bonus, now that her sentence was commuted. she allegedly can't vote during the run of her original 9 year prison sentence, but smart money says she'll make a big production of trying to vote in the midterms, which would be in character for a brain dead maga republican with no respect for the law.
looks like this is going back to court in june ...
Trump's $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' blocked by judge
trump took 3 judicial broadsides on friday ... bummer ...
How is it possible that any adult with a functioning brain NOT see this blatant corruption?
Trump seems to think he can get away with anything. He might be right given the sycophants in GOPTRUMP control Congress and refuse to hold him accountable or constrain him.
It turns out this could be saving Trump more than $100 million in tax penalties. Maybe far more.
Seems to me that the next administration, assuming we return to an ethical DoJ, could nullify this DoJ deal. Can what one DoJ decides be overturned by a subsequent DoJ?
That is, on what legal theory does this DoJ deal depend? Seems it should never be legally possible to do this without normal due process.
The purpose of the fund is to pay for and build Trump's private insurrection militia for his planned 2028 coup attempt.
I just heard a Republican Congressman say they are going to kill the fund. No Republican member of Congress, Senate or House, has said they support it.
One can only hope that this blatant corruption is high enough for the spineless GOPTRUMP to finally act.
I'm afraid that would defy a well established party trajectory this century, but I can appreciate the eternal optimism ...
The DC LEOs on J6 have already filed suite.
finally! A fucking backbone has emerged!
meh, they'll all cower and submit once it gets put to a vote ...
Maybe
you're a cool customer
I agree.
He's 80 and sees his own failing health growing.
He and his team are just trying to bulldoze the Judicial system with increasingly desperate hoaxs and schemes to see what might squeek through.
This is his entertainment.
He's just fucking with all of us. even the GOP
I agree.
Trump is dangerous. He is a psychopath, and he really has nothing to lose.
Trollimus Maximus.
Wasn't that the nick name for Bigus Dickis in that Monty Python move?
There is no defense for this crime.
If it can be construed to be an "official act" the immunity the Supreme Court granted him would apply.
That has to be based on the Constitution, if I remember the opinion correctly. And there is nothing in the Constitution that gives him - or the Executive branch - the authority to create funds to pay out taxpayer money to random people. That power lies with the Congress.
Even if that's the case, don't you think the Republican Supreme Court will find a loophole for their Dear Leader?
Instead of reviewing the entire decision, I found this:
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Shocking that no rwnjs are commenting here! Could it be that Trump has finally offended his sycophantic dumbass hardcore base?!
Of course not! They know they can't defend it intelligently
they're waiting on a more plausible explanation from maga command central ...
Yet it will not matter.
They will still support him.
One would have thought that every rational mind would have rejected Trump as unfit after he tried to steal the 2020 election. That should have been the decisive crossing of the line. Given that was not the case and almost 80 million people still voted for that abysmal human being to be PotUS, there is no sense to be made of those minds.
at this point they're well beyond recovery and rehabilitation, it's time to pull the plug on them ...
I’d like to think that there has to be a line that Trump cannot cross without turning off his base. Unfortunately, that line is probably Trump becoming a Democrat.
... uh yeah, he'd be welcomed with open arms. not. give him a few more months to take more of the maga morons over the cliff with him ...
We don't want him.
Democrats had him and many other white conservative Christian bigots for years. But as the democratic party moved further from white conservative Christian values like maintaining the status quo of "keeping sweet" aka the continued but unspoken forms of segregation and racist policies (can also be used for the way white conservative Christian women are supposed to act), those former Democrats moved to where white conservative Christians felt celebrated and special again which was among the new Republican party that had turned nearly albino over the last fifty years.
It's got to be hard to defend a DOJ and FBI that has actively retaliated against anyone and everyone whoever investigated the former and current POTUS.
It's the ultimate in gaslighting that his supporters that ran afoul of the law would now be able to claim "lawfare" as an excuse for financial relief while tens of thousands of federal workers wonder where their relief is, having been targeted as supporting Fauci, Biden, Obama or any poor NSA or FBI professional involved in investigations of Trump in the last 12 years.
But I read that it doesn’t matter if you’re a republican or a democrat, you’re all eligible for a financial reward to warm you up to your new daddy. The most naked crime - taking the money the government demanded of you, and using it to blatantly shower back money for influence. What a sleaze.
collusion by POS/POTUS with the DOJ to perpetrate a fraud upon the court is an impeachable offense ...
Hell. Add it to the list.
Trump got away with trying to steal the 2020 election with fraud, coercion, lying, and incitement. It does not matter what he does if the spineless fucks in Congress do not hold him accountable.
Now this, this right here, is downright DEPLORABLE!