{"id":48333,"date":"2026-05-20T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48333"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:41:50","slug":"height-of-corruption-doj-trump-settlement-now-says-irs-will-never-again-probe-his-or-his-familys-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/height-of-corruption-doj-trump-settlement-now-says-irs-will-never-again-probe-his-or-his-familys-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Height of Corruption\u2019: DOJ-Trump Settlement Now Says IRS Will Never Again Probe His or His Family\u2019s Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ivanka and Tiffany Trump and President Donald Trump attend UFC 327 at Kaseya Center on April 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe White House is a 24\/7 grift machine and we should not stop being outraged about this,\u201d said Sen. Chris Murphy.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 19, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than a day after a $1.77 billion settlement announced in President Donald Trump\u2019s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was denounced<\/a> as \u201chighway robbery\u201d by one Democratic lawmaker, other members of Congress expressed disgust after it was reported that the taxpayer-funded deal had been updated by a top administration official to ensure the president and his family could potentially get away with defrauding the IRS in perpetuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A one-page document was posted on the US Department of Justice<\/a> (DOJ) website early Tuesday morning, saying that under the settlement, the IRS is \u201cforever barred and precluded\u201d from prosecuting and pursuing any and all claims and other actions against Trump and his family members, regarding unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RECOMMENDED…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top Democrats Demand DOJ and IRS Answer for Trump \u2018Taxpayer Shakedown\u2019 and \u2018Super-Pardon\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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House Democrat Warns Trump on Verge of \u2018Largest Single Act of Grand Larceny in American History\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The landmark judgement in a civil fraud case against Trump found that his two eldest son\u2019s were implicated in an extensive financial and tax fraud scheme along with the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release specifically notes that it also applies to \u201ctax returns filed before the effective date\u201d of the settlement, which was Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe president is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them,\u201d said US Sen.\u00a0Chris Murphy<\/a>\u00a0(D-Conn.). \u201cGot it. It\u2019s just mind-blowing that is what\u2019s happening in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Politico reported on the document a day after 93 US House<\/a> Democrats joined<\/a> an amicus brief filed in Trump v. IRS<\/em>, aiming to block the creation of a so-called \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d as part of the deal for the president to drop his lawsuit<\/a> against the tax agency, which he filed over a leak of his tax returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cslush fund,\u201d as Rep. Jamie Raskin<\/a> (D-Md.) called it, could be used to give monetary rewards to people convicted of felonies in connection with the January 6<\/a>, 2021 attempted insurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one-page document that was attached to the settlement Tuesday was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Rep.\u00a0Pramila Jayapal<\/a>\u00a0(D-Wash.)\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the preemptive and permanent blocking of any IRS enforcement against the Trump family \u201cthe height of\u00a0corruption<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ivanka and Tiffany Trump and President Donald Trump attend UFC 327 at Kaseya Center on April 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida.  (Photo by Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images) \u201cThe White House is a 24\/7 grift machine and we should not stop being outraged about this,\u201d said Sen. Chris Murphy. Julia Conley May… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48334,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48333\/revisions\/48334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}