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

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.

The inclusion only adds to mounting scrutiny of the wider agreement reached on Tuesday. The arrangement was announced after Trump said he was dropping a $10bn lawsuit against the IRS and other specious claims against the government in exchange for creating the compensation fund. IRS officials recommended fighting Trump’s lawsuit, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, but the agency decided to settle it anyway, raising further questions about improper interference.

  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    3 hours ago

    I never said Kamala was good. But with our two-party system, it was either Kamala or Trump. I would take a shit-filled diaper over Trump.

    The 2024 election was a shitshow because Biden suddenly dropped out very close to the actual election, leaving Kamala’s team scrambling. There were a ton of people who didn’t even know Biden had dropped out. Search trends showed as much.

    The system here isn’t broken - it’s working as intended, to serve the wealthy and shit on the rest of us.

    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Ya I agree with all that. That’s mostly why it frustrates me to see people detract from the real problem by scapegoating the blame onto voters. The voters reacted badly but I’d rather pressure the ones that created the situation.

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      01·
      2 hours ago

      I’ll say it cause someone is going to, might as well keep this discussion going. So your admitting that you want to see the Palestinian people be exterminated? Kamala chose Israel over US, that’s why Trump won. A vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide.

      Now we have come full circle. Seriously this conversation about Kamala is fruitless. Everyone just let it go. It’s the past and we can’t change it.