Remember when he promised to release his taxes? Yeah. Instead he got the government to guarantee they can never be audited again.
Buried in a settlement addendum — not announced, not explained, just quietly signed by his own Acting Attorney General — is a clause saying the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from auditing Trump, his family, his businesses, his trusts, and anyone associated with them for any returns filed before the settlement date. Forever. Not this year. Not ever.
You don’t get that. No ordinary American gets that. You get audited, you fight it, you pay what you owe or you don’t, and the IRS can come back. That’s the system. That’s how it works for everyone except apparently him.
He used the Justice Department — his Justice Department, run by his hand-picked Acting Attorney General — to permanently shield himself from the one government agency that could have told us what he was hiding all along.
This isn’t a settlement. It’s a cover-up with a legal signature on it.
Sources: Reuters — the addendum | CNBC | Reuters — earlier settlement