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.
LOL, you mean until a future addendum undoing it and then it’s like it never existed? Clowns…
No no it’s for super infinity forever + 1.
Stephen Miiler called it! No take backs!
What kind of malarkey is this? The writers of real life should be fired
This is fascism. It’s our new reality. Be ready for very bad times.
This is what the 2A is for.
Americans are far too chickenshit to do anything like that.
Problem is, most of the ones who have the guns are also the ones that like him and his corruption.
Then the Secret Service must all be fired for not being patriotic enough to put two into the back of the head.
Fired by whom?
A firing squad
No, the 2A is in case black people want to elect another President.
Ready? We’ve been living in them for a while now…
How are we letting this become normal? Most of the American public will believe anything just as long as they don’t have to think too much about it.
Because if you try to discuss what needs to be done on the typical means of communication in the 21st century (i.e., fascist-controlled social media), you’ll be censored (and possibly referred to the FBI for prosecution as a “terrorist”) before you can even begin to get organized.
Normal is what got us here. It’s been a long time coming. Time to start lobbing mortars at the White House when he’s in the shower.
I starting to believe Paula Poundstone and think trump is so tired of losing that he’s trying to get “fired” by these egregious, in-your-face acts.
Lmao imagine Trump sweating while eating a Big Mac and wondering what the hell else he could do to get fired. He participated in a pedophile ring, started a war, kidnapped the leader of a foreign country, killed hundreds of thousands of people during Covid. Like WTH else could he do at this point.
I agree. I just hope that, way deep down, american citizens will encounter a tipping-point.
They will receive justice. Otherwise the US is just a failed state.
Name one president who has received justice for criminal acts in the USA in 250 years.
True. 🤷♂️🤷🤷♀️
What was does not need to be what will be, things can change. If we somehow claw things back from the fascists I, for one, will be screaming from rooftops if the Trump crime family is not imprisoned entirely or forced to run somewhere like Russia.
US has been a failed state for a long time. It’s just that Americans wouldn’t see it. Any attempt to talk about corruption and dangers of 2 party system (and both parties have same owners) was always met with ridicule and chest beating. I suppose decades of propaganda that never stopped did its thing. And now those same people are asking me what are they supposed to do, because there is nothing they can do (according to their own words)? Always fucking victims. Same people that bragged about 2nd amendment and their heroism and freedoms are now victim tweeting all day long. And they think that is resistance. They can’t handle the thought of losing their comfort(s).
America is a country of cowards now. And it didn’t use to be.
I always used to say that US’ biggest export was corruption. It still is.
America is 100% a country of selfish cowards.
Remember that if you criticize the Democratic party and don’t ‘vote blue no matter who,’ you’re a Russian operative undermining the US election process. It’s not that you have a fully functional brain and see both sides are actually all on one side. Russian operative. Only option.
/s, fucking Americans
Joke of a country
I’m gonna stop having my taxes deducted ahead of time. It’s not much, but fuck them. Why let them get the interest?
They charge an underpayment penalty for doing that now.
What’s the penalty?
I am looking forward to the “LegalEagle” breakdown of how this is complete bullshit….
You don’t need an expert to tell you this is bullshit, it’s complete bullshit, the president is a citizen of the United States like the rest of us.
Not according to SCOTUS. They ruled he is above the laws.
Lemmy Americans are bizarre, you guys really don’t understand what has been happening since 2025.
You’re totally right since this doesn’t even come close to passing the smell test. I just like when they dunk on this shit. Not that anyone will ever do anything about it.
After ten long years of no consequences whatsoever, I’m kinda leaning to the you-brought-this-on-yourselves… Still wish you good luck, though.
Totally normal thing to see in a healthy democracy.
That won’t outlast the next administration. If there is one.
Can’t wait for them discover even more crimes that won’t result in charges.
🎯🎯🎯You don’t build yourself a ballroom if you’re leaving.
To be fair death still comes one to a customer.
True but that could still be a over a decade away
Well he could release them then right? Wasnt that the reason he would never release them previously?
Huh. I wonder if Spanky has something to hide, hmmmm?
Lol. He thinks he king
So far he is right.
