US justice department 'forever' bars IRS from auditing Trump's past tax returns [View all]

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.