Trump’s IRS settlement: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Trump’s $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS used for an Anti-Weaponization Fund.
We all heard that President Trump dropped his $10 billion personal lawsuit in opposition to himself, as president and boss of the Justice Department, and obtained a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for the Capitol rioters (“$1.776B ‘bias’ fund,” May 19).
But now, we discover out that he additionally obtained a provision barring the federal government from pursuing tax claims in opposition to Trump, his household and his companies. Boy, he sure can negotiate — particularly when it’s with himself and it includes taxpayer money.
Mike Barrett
Ashburn, Va.
This is probably the most corrupt administration in historical past. Using authorities funds to repay supporters to the tune of nearly $1.8 billion — permitted by a Justice Department managed by Trump — is an affront to all Americans.
Gary Kleinman
Los Angeles, Calif.
President Trump reportedly plans to make use of some of his over $1.8 billion settlement with the IRS to reward some of the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
When I heard that, I rapidly thought of Adolf Hitler — who, after gaining control of Germany, in 1934 created The Blood Order medal, a silver medallion awarded to Nazis who participated within the notorious failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.
I used to joke with my associates that Washington, DC, in 2026 is beginning to resemble Berlin in 1933. Today, I’ve stopped joking.
Paul Newman
Merion Station, Pa.
“Crime doesn’t pay,” runs the previous line. But now Trump says, “Crime will pay” — or at the very least the federal government is planning to pay the Jan. 6 rioters. They will not be harmless victims and shouldn’t be paid. America is heading the flawed method.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
We have two new cons from Trump. First, he needs to financially reward, with our tax money, the criminals that he pardoned for partaking within the revolt on Jan. 6, together with those that have been arrested again for varied horrific crimes.
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Then he needs a deal in place the place the IRS can’t have a look at his taxes or his household’s.
Meanwhile, our nation goes to hell, and dictator Trump couldn’t care much less.
Kreg Ramone
Manhattan
The Issue: Union funding for American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten’s new guide.
What a shock that Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, tapped and used $1.4 million in her union’s assets to jot down her guide (“Weingarten’s Pricey Book $cam,” Editorial, May 19).
That is totally outrageous and he or she must reply for it. Who does she suppose she is that she will be able to contact this sort of money for her own personal benefit?
She’s nothing more than a loudmouth and a insurgent who’s gotten caught along with her hand within the cookie jar. The guide needs to be suspended and destroyed.
Gene O’Brien
Whitestone
Weingarten was by no means actually a instructor. She’s a lawyer who did restricted instructing to qualify for union membership so she might take over as president of NYC’s United Federation of Teachers. She’s by no means been something however a self-serving fraud.
Charles T. Compton
The Bronx
Weingarten writes a fairy story about fascists and how they attempt to take over the tutorial system. The true story is how Weingarten and her union have taken over the system, and he or she runs it like a true dictatorship.
It’s a disgrace that more than half of the scholars being taught by members of her union received’t be capable of learn the guide since they haven’t discovered how to learn.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
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