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.
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.
America has always been an authoritarian dictatorship of capital. The rich have always ruled this country with impunity, and workers have never been allowed to hold real political power. American democracy has always been an illusion and marketing trick.
You dropped this
IF
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?
It might be if we don’t turn around and elect Joe Biden or some other dinosaur again
“You’ll get who Israel wants and you’ll like it.” -Chuck Schumer