Trump's Department of Justice quietly posts memo 'forever' barring IRS audits of Trump, his family, or his allies

It is getting very tiring to get up every morning and, like clockwork, learn of some new near-farcical act of crookedness by the American ruling class. No matter how corrupt you believe the Republican Party to have become, you never have to wait longer than a day to be proven wrong. It's always worse, every day, all the time.

Yesterday we learned that the rumored "settlement" between Donald Trump, a seditionist dimwit who skated off without repercussions after 34 felony convictions (and more in the works) were effectively neutered by a Republican Supreme Court announcement that Actually, Presidents Can Do Crimes Now, and Donald Trump's hired minions would indeed be going forward. Trump would "drop" a purely frivolous lawsuit demanding his government pay him Ten Billion Dollars for the humiliation of having his shitty crooked tax returns leaked, and in exchange Donald Trump would get a $1.7 billion government slush fund to pay off any of his allies who also got caught doing felonies on his behalf.

For example, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in order to overturn the results of Donald's 2020 reelection loss, brutally attacking Capitol police, smearing feces inside the building, and ransacking offices in their hunt for Vice President Mike Pence and the members of Congress who had refused to rig the results in his favor.

Or the lawyers who helped him execute the scheme.

Or the violent militia members who had stockpiled weapons nearby and were awaiting an expected Trump order to impose mob rule in Washington, D.C..

Or the son in law who got a billion-dollar payoff from the Saudi royal family and who acts as the lead "negotiator" in a Saudi-pushed war against Iran, all the while still pocketing fistfuls of that money because, to repeat, this whole nation is apparently just one big crime ring now.

Previous reporting did get one detail wrong, however: The money that would be handed over to a Trump-controlled commission working in secret to pay cash bonuses to Trump allies who broke laws for him would amount not to $1.7 billion, but $1.776 billion, because if there's anything billionaire ally Elon Musk taught Trump's inner circle it's that all important government programs should be based on memes.

Well, apparently now there's a new addendum to that "settlement" that isn't really a settlement because it was never approved by the federal judge they asked to dismiss the case. Tuesday morning, the terms of the deal were altered.

Politico reports:

[A] one-page document posted on the DOJ website early Tuesday includes a sweeping release under which the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses.

The waiver specifically encompasses “tax returns filed before the effective date” of the settlement, which was Monday.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed the addendum, dated Tuesday. It does not bear the signature of any representative of the IRS or any current Trump lawyers. Metadata attached to the document indicates it was prepared or scanned at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday.

Wow, go figure. Donald Trump's most crooked ex-lawyer, the one who he tapped to replace former Attorney General Pam Bondi after Pam Bondi enraged him by not being crooked enough, appears to have scribbled down his own personal addendum to the $1.776 billion Trump slush fund that prohibits the IRS from ever looking into Trump's past taxes again. Or Jared Kushner's. Or Ivana Trump, or Uday or Qusay Trump, or Rudy Giuliani, or anyone who has business deals with a Trump, or anyone who "invests in" the bribecoins promoted by Trump, or anyone who doesn't report $50,000 in bribe money stuffed into a fast food back in exchange for steering Trump administration contracts to the briber, or any crooked lawyer or ex-lawyer who's ever represented Trump, up to and including several U.S. Attorney Generals, including ones with the initials T.B..

My goodness! It sure is a happy coincidence that Todd Blanche caught the omission in the original "settlement" and quickly mashed up a fix for it! Without this new memo, it's possible that some new president might come in and allow the IRS to independently investigate tax fraud by Trump's extremely tax fraud-y inner circle. No, it's important to have an agreement that crookedly bars the government from looking into the tax fraud of this era "forever."

Okay, see, here's the thing. At some point this is not a Todd Blanche problem, or a Donald Trump problem, and that "some point" happened so long ago that it has already been encased in limestone and fossilized. That "some point" is so distant that you can't see it from here, thanks to the curvature of the Earth and the theory of relativity and newly discovered valances of crookedness that scientists have only discovered thanks to upgrades in the Large Hadron Collider.

This is not Todd Blanche being the crookedest son-of-a-large-sonoran-desert-cactus to ever live. This is not the now thoroughly mushbrained Donald Trump crapping out new corruption schemes during his every bathroom break.

No, this is an institutional corruption that has accomplices in every last American would-be aristocrat, elected leader, corporate termite mound, and ass-showing supposed intellectual who can't muster up full-throated opposition to it.

Donald Trump can't make the United States a crooked country. It's those people who make the United States a crooked country. Republican members of Congress. Billionaire media owners like Jeff Bezos and the Ellisons. The weird freak prosperity gospel grifters who take their private Jesus Jets to lay hands on President Antichrist and declare him Good. Every last newspaper publisher, cable television executive, radio host, paid pundit, unpaid pundit, sinfluencer and ratty hanger-on—those are the people who have made America corrupt and lawless.

Those are the people who watch all of this unfold and defend it, or say they haven't noticed it, or shuffle their feet uncomfortably and say _well the public just isn't interested in stories about the American executive branch becoming a cesspool of open, festering corruption in service to a demented and criminal mad king who was elevated back into office via the machinations of those same elites. Those are the crooked sleaze-merchants who have crafted this era and who still very, very much like it.

I would like to go one day without being newly repulsed by the open corruption of the preening jet-owning cow pies who claim to be our glorious betters. I would like to see just one of these billionaires take a break from whining about the raw offensiveness of suggesting they have profited unfairly to instead speak out staunchly against Government Led By Crooks.

You claim to be our betters! You claim to be our moral superiors! You claim that the nation needs you, and that your mansions should not be stormed by angry mobs, your bank accounts seized, your fifty lifetimes worth of hoarded posh peeled from you like the skin from an orange, because the huddled masses simply do not understand that you are the shapers of the world, the angels that guide us made mortal and given yachts and personal ballrooms and control over everything we think and see!

Prove it, you grotesqueries. Show us your opposition to gaudy, open corruption, Any House Republican. Give us not just a squirrelly statement of discomfort, but new laws that carve up the grifts and mulch them, Any Republican Senator. Show us you are not a coward and a fraud, every person who appears on our television screens to boast and pontificate.

If this nation has been corrupted by a two-bit oatmeal-brained reality show host with a history of rape, fraud, and theft, it is because the people who claimed to be protecting us from corruption are, in fact, its most vigorous protectors. We should count each one of them as a petty crime lord unto themselves until and unless proven otherwise.

Also apparently they're all pedophiles? Or at the least best business buddies with pedophiles? I couldn't tell you how the two things are related, but apparently being a pervert child sex trafficker and a booster of petty grifts and tax dodges are a package deal more often than not.