A weeks-long charade over Todd Blanche’s political future is over, for now. It ended as it began, with President Donald Trump, his family and their businesses receiving sweeping immunity from tax audits.
As a condition for their support for the president’s former criminal defense attorney as U.S. Attorney General, a pair of Republican senators wanted assurance that a nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to reward the president’s political allies was “permanently” terminated. They also wanted clarification around the IRS deal, which “forever” bars the government from any “examinations or similar or related reviews” into the Trump family’s taxes.
