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A federal judge accused the Justice Department of "untenable" stonewalling over how it ended President Donald Trump's IRS suit.

According to a Friday article by Bloomberg, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis said at a hearing that the DOJ failed to properly answer questions about the origins of the deal that gave Trump, his family, and businesses blanket immunity from IRS audits. During the Friday hearing, Davis ordered some preliminary records turned over within a week and set a September 4 hearing to decide whether to compel further disclosures.

"You have failed on both ends of the discovery process," Davis told DOJ senior counsel Andrew Block, according to Bloomberg. "That cannot continue."...

The Trump administration's ouster of a top Internal Revenue Service attorney might have created a "new potential whistleblower" who could reveal "what is really going on in the White House," a legal expert warned Saturday.

Legal AF analyst Michael Popok, responding the Wall Street Journal report that top Treasury Department tax policy official Kenneth Kies had been forced out of his job, noted he "used to be Donald Trump's personal tax lawyer and lobbyist."

Kies had since become an assistant Treasury secretary and acting chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, who, according to Popok, resigned "rather than allow the White House to violate a federal criminal statute."...

A Department of Justice division claimed it had no records related to President Donald Trump's IRS settlement, a watchdog reported.

According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the DOJ's Civil Division came up empty-handed when responding to a request for records related to the settlement that led to Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.

The $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund came out of a settlement in the case Trump v. IRS, a $10 billion lawsuit over the leaking of the Trump family and organization's tax returns. CREW filed the request to see DOJ documents related to the settlement that created the fund, but "DOJ's Civil Division claims to have no record of so much as being notified about Trump's case," the watchdog reported....

A Democratic lawmaker blasted Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday and called out the immunity order issued by the Justice Department that granted President Donald Trump, his family and associates immunity from any future IRS investigations.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) pressed Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer — to answer questions about the decision during the House Appropriations Committee hearing on the Justice Department. Blanche admitted during the Capitol Hill hearing that the Justice Department would not move forward with its "anti-weaponization fund" following outcry from both lawmakers and the public.

And in DeLauro's line of questioning, she expressed frustration towards Blanche, shaking her head and scoffing at his responses after he said the order was "not blanket immunity." Then she read the order directly to him....

Joe Rogan was stunned after news of President Donald Trump's newly created $1.8 billion slush fund and called the ordeal "crazy," The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.

The longtime Trump ally spoke about it Monday on his "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast with comedian Tom Segura, discussing the $10 billion lawsuit settlement between Trump and the IRS and how the Department of Justice announced that the fund would compensate allies of the president who claim they were wrongly prosecuted under former President Joe Biden's administration, including Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol rioters.

Rogan took issue with the document signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that forever bars the United States from pursuing any tax claims or other legal actions against the president, his family, his trusts, and his companies....

The Department of Justice has issued an order permanently barring the United States from pursuing any tax claims or other legal actions against President Donald Trump, his family, his trusts, and his companies, according to a Justice Department document signed Tuesday by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The order, issued in connection with the settlement of Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, stated, "The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES" the plaintiffs and is "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action, appeals, or requests for any relief" against Trump or related parties.

The settlement agreement had already created what the DOJ calls Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund," a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot to compensate people who claim they were politically targeted by previous administrations....