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 ā€œforever barredā€ and ā€œprecludedā€ from examining the tax returns of Trump, his family, company and ā€œrelated companiesā€. 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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    22 days ago

    I starting to believe Paula Poundstone and think trump is so tired of losing that he’s trying to get ā€œfiredā€ by these egregious, in-your-face acts.

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      21 days ago

      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.

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        21 days ago

        I agree. I just hope that, way deep down, american citizens will encounter a tipping-point.