DOJ Settlement Shields Trump From IRS (Connecting the Dots: Politico, IRS, John Koskinen, The U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Treasury & The Carnegie/Soros Network)
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By Sam
Barron | Tuesday, 19 May 2026 04:35 PM EDT
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-department-of-justice-donald-trump/2026/05/19/id/1256837/
The Department
of Justice announced
Tuesday that as part of its settlement with President Donald Trump, the IRS will no longer pursue any claims
it may have against Trump, his family members, or his companies over unpaid
taxes.
The
agreement, signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, says it encompasses
"tax returns filed before the effective date" of the May 18
settlement.
The IRS
waiver comes after the Trump administration announced the creation of a
$1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who assert
that they were mistreated by the Department of Justice under the Biden
administration.
The
Anti-Weaponization Fund was announced by the department as part of a deal to
resolve the president's lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax
returns.
Blanche
called it a "lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be
heard and seek redress."
Associate
Attorney General Stanley Woodward defended the settlement agreement between
Trump and the Department of Justice.
"I
already have the authority to settle any claim that is brought against the
United States of America," Woodward told reporters.
"I
think that it's way, way, way too early for us to rush to judgment on whether
this was a good or a bad idea, to describe it as a slush fund, or really even
to criticize it," he added.
John Koskinen,
who served as IRS commissioner under the Obama administration, told Politico the
expanded settlement set a "terrible precedent."
"It
makes you wonder what the President has to hide in those tax returns. He's
apparently been actively trading in the stock market and, since he knows a lot
more about situations than the average investor, he's probably generated
significant taxable earnings," Koskinen said.
"Not
auditing his returns is the same as giving him an easy way to, in effect,
receive money from the government," Koskinen added.
Danny
Werfel, who served as IRS commissioner under the Biden administration, told
Politico he was "unaware of a single precedent where the IRS has agreed in
advance to permanently forgo examination of previously filed tax returns for a
specific person or business."
John Koskinen
48th
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
In
office
December
23, 2013 – November 12, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koskinen
Early
life
Koskinen
was born on June 30, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio. He has Finnish-American roots,
because his grandparents came from Finland to the United States at the
beginning of the 1900s.[2][3] In 1957, Koskinen graduated high school at
Ashland High School (now known as Paul G. Blazer High School) in Ashland,
Kentucky. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in physics from Duke University in
1961, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, cum laude from Yale Law School in 1964, and did
postgraduate work at Queens' College, Cambridge in England from 1964 to 1965.
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(think tank) and a supporter for the American Society for Muslim
Advancement.
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States House of Representatives since 2023 and is a member of
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Valley University (Charlie Kirk Shooting).
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