As Blanches path to confirmation is cleared, Trumps tax audit immunity remains in place
WASHINGTON (AP) — In negotiations with Republican senators whose support he needs to be confirmed as attorney general, Todd Blanche formally rescinded a $1. 8 billion fund meant to compensate President Donald Trump's political allies. But a sweeping audit immunity plan conferred on the president, his sons and the Trump Organization remains in place — given new parameters to appease the senators but still with the potential to wipe away millions of dollars of Trump's back taxes. In a sent a...
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