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.

  • thlibos@thelemmy.club
    8·
    2 hours ago

    LOL, you mean until a future addendum undoing it and then it’s like it never existed? Clowns…

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    They will receive justice. Otherwise the US is just a failed state.

    • tortina_original@lemmy.world
      32·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • underThunder@thelemmy.club
    29·
    6 hours ago

    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.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      20·
      5 hours ago

      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.

  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 hours ago

    I’m gonna stop having my taxes deducted ahead of time. It’s not much, but fuck them. Why let them get the interest?

  • Redditsux@lemmy.world
    60·
    8 hours ago

    Trump is merely a vigorous test of the American democratic system, and that system has thoroughly failed. It lacks safeguards, guardrails, and checks and balances. If USA survives Trump presidency, and that is an IF, they need to rectify all of its failings immediately. Otherwise they are just inviting another authoritarian to take it over and make it a dictatorship.

    • leoj@piefed.socialEnglish
      172·
      8 hours ago

      maybe we survive just because he is an incompetent baffoon and this is the wake up call that fixes everything… Right? Tell me its gonna be ok mommy?

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    6 hours ago

    I am looking forward to the “LegalEagle” breakdown of how this is complete bullshit….

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 hours ago

      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.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        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.