Post #3246949

2026-06-03 00:28 UTC

I am guessing that if anyone actually tests that settlement in a court of law that it will not be worth the paper it’s written on. All it takes is one person in the IRS to grow enough of a testicle to actually call for the audit.

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@foodandart@lemmy.zip 2026-06-03 01:02

Apparently that whole deal is a non starter, as it’s null since Trump waited until he was president again - 6 years after the Trump family tax documents were released, (and the contractor that did it served his jail time) as the statute of limitations to bring a complaint against the IRS on such matters is two years. Since he ALSO is head of the Executive Branch - which includes the Treasury and the IRS, there is a massive conflict of interest regarding the suit and a valid inability to show harm from the tax documents being released (since ofc, he’s the POTUS and not some schmoe living on the streets) so any punitive amount is rightly to be viewed as a policital shakedown at best, and outright theft of taxpayer money at worst. Given that he’s facing bigger problems now that Iran closed the Straight of Hormuz again, (Israel is doing whatever the hell it wants, to no one’s surprise) and what it’s likely to do to fuel and food costs come the fall… He’s fucked no matter what. Which… is delicious.

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