Trump corruption has progressed from horrific to worse. Among American presidents probably all elected American politicians, he is in a criminal class by himself. In addition to being a traitor, convicted felon, sex predator, and chronic liar, he’s a world class grifter. And now, much of his grifting is mostly out in the open. A few recent news reports give a glimpse of the vast criminal enterprise that Trump runs. His crime empire is called the federal government.
As part of a settlement agreement announced May 19, 2026, Trump’s Justice Department granted Trump, his family, and his businesses complete immunity from ongoing tax investigations and audits. This provision was quietly added to a broader agreement establishing a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund for Trump supporters. Trump’s acting Attorney General and corrupt MAGA thug Todd Blanche says the government is forever barred and precluded from prosecuting or pursuing any outstanding tax claims against Trump, his relatives, and his business entities. This new immunity grant covers current audits, tax-related prosecutions, and any tax matters, including tax returns filed before the settlement’s effective date. Federal law explicitly prohibits presidents from directing the initiation or termination of IRS audits for specific taxpayers. That includes themselves, unless the USSC steps in and protects Trump again by saying the law does not say what it says. Link, link
Tax experts criticized the deal as probably illegal, but who is going to investigate or prosecute for this likely illegality? Not Trump’s FBI Or his DoJ. The USSC effectively immunized Trump for all crimes he commits while in office. So, why not go on a crime spree if you’re morally rotted enough to want to?
Although IRS attorneys prepared a 25-page memo identified weakness in Trump’s claims against the IRS, Trump’s IRS settled and gave Trump a huge gift worth about $100 million in the form of taxes and fines Trump will never have to pay to the US Treasury. Despite Trump’s lawsuit being without merit, Trump’s IRS recommended that the DoJ dismiss the case and give Trump a fat, juicy gift for his troubles. It’s unclear if the memo even reached its intended recipients at the DoJ. Presumably Trump simply ordered the IRS to back off and grift for him. In dropping the lawsuit against the boss, the DoJ gave no explanation for why it chose settlement over available defenses the DoJ simply threw away to serve the boss and created a $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump.
Trump has disguised our $1.8 billion in tax money as an “anti-weaponization” fund for Trump supporters, but he will figure a way to sink his greedy claws into it in due course. Directly or indirectly, he will benefit from his sleazy slush fund. Acting attorney general Blanche has authority to appoint five commission members to oversee slush fund distribution, but not surprisingly Trump can fire any of them for any or no reason. Eligibility criteria for payments remain undisclosed, so Dog only knows how those tax dollars will be pissed away for Trump’s benefit. Link, link, link
Finally, an update to Trump’s criminal pardons-for-profit grift has spawned a new industry for grifters who are grifting criminals who want to pay Trump for a pardon for their crimes. This festival of sleaze has provoked warning to criminals seeking pardons to be careful about who they hire to Trump’s bribes for their pardons. Current estimates are that Trump will pardon criminals for a bribe of $1-2 million. The intermediary who approaches Trump’s operatives in his criminal pardons enterprise also gets paid. In a news article, How to [Buy] a Pardon in Trump’s Washington, attorney Josh Nass warns criminals that there are people out there falsely promising that they can get a pardon for them from Trump. Nass has been one of the intermediaries with real contacts with Trump’s underlings who run day-to-day operations for Trump’s pardons for bribe business.
The news article quotes Nass giving his warning for criminals to protect themselves from being scammed by grifters: “There are a lot of bad actors out there, promising prospective clients that they can get pardons. You have people who are in desperate straits, and they get taken to the cleaners by people who wind up doing nothing for them. The upside of these pardons is so great. People [convicted criminals] will do anything to get one.”
Those poor criminals. First they get caught and convicted. Then they have to worry about being scammed when they try to go to Trump to buy a pardon. Goodness gracious what is the world coming to when bad crooks are scamming honest crooks just trying to buy a simple presidential pardon? The world is going to hell in a handbasket. /s
For context, it should be noted that, as discussed here at BNR before, Trump’s pardons have cost crime victims and the US Treasury well over $1 billion in fines, fees and crime victim restitution payments. When Trump takes his payment and lets his criminal clients off the hook, he also forgives all payments the crooks were supposed to pay for their crimes. So, when Trump pardons criminals the bribery payment also buys him the satisfaction of shafting crime victims and the US Treasury, i.e., taxpayers. Now that is patriotic MAGA politics in action! /s
Q: Is Trump effectively serving the public interest by selling pardons to convicted criminals, including relieving them of their obligation to pay their victims, by teaching the victims to up their defenses so they’re not victims again?
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