***. “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain…the character of an “Honest Man.”
[ George Washington; 8/28/1788 ]
This post concerns various issues involved in the “dea” between the U.S. government and the Trumps to “resolve” the $10 billion lawsuit “our” president filed against the IRS. As of this date, 5/21/26, we have learned some details. Ordinary American citizens have written “letters to the editor” decrying ‘corruption.” Legal experts are beginning to raise concerns. What do. YOU. think? Read these excerpts – begin THINKING……
I. “IRS to ‘forever’ drop its tax claims against Trump” { Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker; Associated Press; 5/20/26 ]:
1] “..acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out the prospect of Jan. 6 rioters receiving payouts from a taxpayer-fueled fund created by the same settlement.”
2] “The settlement agreement also says the U.S. government is “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization over current tax issues..”
3]. “Blanche defended the creation of the fund without any acknowledgement that the Trump administration has pursued investigations of Trump’s political opponents.” [NOTE: when you’re DICTATOR you make the rules !!!]
4] “The mere possibility that violent rioters at the Capitol could be considered for payouts is consistent with a Trump administration pattern of rewriting the history of Jan. 6…”
*** “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” [ Joseph Goebbels; Nazi Minister of Propaganda ]
II. “Trump’s $1.776 billion windfall tests constitutional limits” [ Adam Liptak; New York Times; 5/21/26 ]:
2]. “The whole enterprise was a jarring shock to the conventional understanding of the constitutional system, raising what legal experts said were profound questions about presidential power. If the arrangement is allowed to stand, they said, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’ power of the purse and the ability of the courts to police the separation of powers.”
1]. “..the president managed to work out a deal with himself Monday, one as novel and brazen as the process that spawned it. He dropped his lawsuit, extracting from his own government a promise to create a $1.776 billion fund to dole out to his political allies.”
*** “The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.” {Thomas Jefferson; 1782]
III. “Trump’s stock trades questioned”. [ Bernard Condon; Associated Press; 5/21/26 ]:
2]. “If he were defense secretary, he would be commiting a crime,” said Richard Painter…”Technically he can do this, but it is a fundamentasl breach of trust.”
1] “Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle…but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions..”
3] “Since he became president again, the Trump organization has taken in tens of millions in upfront fees from overseas developers that want to put his name on resorts and hundreds of millios from cryptocurrency sales, mostly anonymous, making it impossible to know if the purchaser were trying to curry favor with the president.”
***. ‘..no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or sovereign state.”
[ Article I, Section 9; U.S. constitution ]
IV. “Officers who defended U.S. Capitol sue to block payments”. [ Michael Kunzelman; Associated Press; 5/21/26 ]:
1] “The lawsuit claims the government’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is an illegal slush fund that Trump will use to “finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.” It describes the fund’s creation as “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century..”
2] “The officers claim the fund “encourages those who enacted violence in the President’s name to continue to do so.” “Dunn and Hodges already face credible threats of death and violence on regular basis; the Fund sunstantially increases the danger..”
*** “It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction…a penalty or punishment for disobedience. if there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolution or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendations.”
[ Alexander Hamilton: “The Federalist Papers” ]
V. “$100M tax threat for Trump likely wiped away by DOJ-brokered deal”. [ Russ Buettner; New York Times; 5/21/26]:
1] “..frees the president from a potential adverse ruling that could cost him more than $100 million..”
2] “The audit dated back to a $72.9 million tax refund that Trump claimed, and received… Trump justified the refund claim by declaring huge business losses..”
3] “The IRS has argued that he, in effect, tried to write off the same losses on the Chicago tower twice.”
4] “The agreement to end the Trumps’ lawsuit, while sidestepping judicial review, also puts an end to any other audit by the IRS pertaining to tax returns they or their businesses have already filed.”
***. “The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison: “The Federalist Papers” ]
VI. Some excerpts from “letters to the editor”. Trump Administration Let this corruption sink in [ Minnesota Star Tribune; 5/21/26]:
1] “Never in my 70-plus years have I seen the level of greed and corruption present in the Trump administration and family.” { m.H. ]
2]. “What an unbelievable conflict of interest. But it’s just business as usual: ˇhe chief executive’s objectives of enriching his supporters from prosecution keep on coming..” [ R.S. ]
3]. “..perhaps Republicans at the federal level should consult them on how to prevent corruption in the newly established $1.776 billion fund that so far appears to be directed at the complete discretion of Trump.” [ E. P. ]
4]. “This reeks of corruption and is further proof that Trump doesn’t care about the Constitution or the oath he took to uphold it.” [ W.J. ]
5] “Apparently crime does pay. I”m thinking about quitting the career I”ve been building for 26 years to become a rioter.” [M. R.]
6]. “This is the “mafia-zation” of government.” [ P. R. ]
7] “Trump may not be working on the problems facing Americans…but he is certainly finding creative ways of enriching himself and his friends at taxpayers’ expense.” [ M. A. ]
SOOO – what do YOU think? Need more evidence? Have enough evidence to vote November 3, 2026?
***. “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law… no court can save it..”
[ Judger Learned Hand ]
VI. !!!!! – Corruption update: “DOJ violates its own policy in ‘shocking gift’ to Trump” [ Devlin Barrett; New York Times; 5/22/26]: “Justice Department veterans have been deeply skeptical…particularly when it comes to the provision in the deal that offers President Donald Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. immunity from tax penalties…
“I have never heard of the department ever being willing to grant blanket immunity, said Jennifer Rickett…”That seems blatantly corrupt. It’s a shocking gift to the president.”
With Justice For All 