So, Todd Blanche has announced that he will be canceling the Trump slush fund in order to get Republican votes for his nomination as US Attorney General, he also issued a related memo saying that the IRS amnesty will only apply to Trump, his businesses, and his immediate family.
Unsurprisingly, the Republicans have declared that this is enough.
Equally unsurprisingly, even though the one of the memos is signed by Todd Blanche. they mean nothing, because the "settlement" requires signatures from all parties to modify.
It's all bad legal theater.
Texas Senator John Cornyn and North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis just caved to Donald Trump’s demands, paving the way for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to move toward a full Senate confirmation.
The two Republican holdouts announced Monday that they had reached a deal with the Justice Department that they claimed satisfied their aims to end Trump’s $1.8 “anti-weaponization” fund.
“We are pleased that the Department of Justice has issued a formal order terminating the anti-weaponization fund,” the outgoing lawmakers said in a joint statement. “Additionally, the Department has acknowledged in a binding written order that the audit settlement is limited to the plaintiffs and the scope does not extend beyond the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS and the Treasury, addressing concerns that multiple of our Republican colleagues share.”
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On its face, Blanche’s note appeared to terminate the fund, specifying that the order was “rescinded and shall have no force or effect.” However, journalists were quick to comment that the language employed in the rest of Blanche’s memo not only suggested that the honey pot fund would be preserved in some form, but also failed to terminate Trump’s underlying IRS immunity arrangement.
This makes Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper after selling out Czechoslovakia look like a profile in courage.
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