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I predict that they’re still going to try to move forward with this shitty slush fund anyway in some form, and then we’re gonna have to try to drag it through the courts to stop it.

This official document will make it easier to stop, but they’re gonna do whatever they can to move forward with it in some form nonetheless.

These people are lying scumbags, and this mood is yet another lie.

And if he's confirmed, he'll order it again.

The bar already is too low for this to mean anything. A judge has blocked the proposed settlement already, so it's insanely suspicious that Trump was willing to withdraw Blanche if necessary to not give up the settlement in writing.

Two huge problems that probably make this worthless despite that it almost certainly will satisfy the GOP holdouts:

1. Now they have produced an "order," but it's not even clear what legal effect it has or why it can't be replaced with a new "order" reinstating it.

2. There is still a retroactive immunity! How this is never in the headlines, is just a reflection of how they've successfully poisoned the conversation. Here's the article:

The document released by Blanche on Sunday night also limits the scope of another provision of the settlement that provided broad immunity for Trump and members of his family from tax audits. It clarifies that the tax audit immunity agreement “applies only retroactively” to claims open at the time of the settlement and does not protect the president from examination of future tax filings.

I doubt "claims open at the time of the settlement" is genuinely limiting. So the president and his entire family gratuitously get exactly what they wanted, a free criminal immunity for their fraudulent tax returns. The prospective immunity was never going to be held up in court anyway.

Blanche is Trump's personal attorney. Not was, is. Just like Bondi. Cornyn and Tillis did this so they can lie to themselves that they had a backbone, that's all.

Did Trump approve that? Because yesterday he was swearing up and down he was going to open it back up if Blanche wasn't confirmed.

Please forgive me for not trusting your obvious BS line

Well at least that's something positive to come out of this. Though I feel that if Cornyn didn't get fucked over in the primary by Trump he wouldn't have really put up such an opposition to this.

Republican nominees lie to the Senate to get approved.

No he didn't. If you read the fine print, all parties must be signatories to all changes to the settlement meaning if Trump and his kids decide to force the settlement it can go forward. He's lying as well. Read this document Blanch signed. He didn't close the door on the fund.

Kill him and his fucking kids and pets

Get wrecked, Todd.

So when he said it was moot before, was he lying?

No he didn't, he lied. They always lie. They're liars.

There's a new Guardian article now that addresses the sham of the confirmation agreement:

‘Completely hollow’: critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund

“These assurances are not worth the paper they’re written on,” Brandon DeBot, policy director at the Tax Law Center at NYU, said in a statement. “They don’t pull back on the ongoing attempts to give the president, his family, and his affiliates unauthorized immunity from tax audits. They don’t do anything new to stop the president from trying to bring back the fund, as he threatened to this weekend. It’s abundantly clear we need congressional action.”

The documents Blanche released only say the prior justice department order creating the weaponization fund is rescinded. It does not modify the original settlement agreement creating the fund, reached as the result of a Trump lawsuit seeking billions in damages for the unauthorized release of his tax returns.

Blanche acknowledged during his confirmation hearing that Trump or his sons – the plaintiffs in the case – could theoretically sue to enforce the agreement. Trump spent the weekend praising the slush fund, and even threatened to revive it.

Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House judiciary committee, said Blanche’s announcement does nothing to prevent the justice department and Trump from creating the weaponization fund under a different name.

Raskin said: “These hollow words are an affront to the American people, Congress and the courts, and are clearly designed to lull Senators Cornyn and Tillis into a false sense that their legitimate concerns have been addressed while leaving Blanche’s corrupt scheme fully intact.”

Did the other party to the IRS lawsuit’s settlement also agree to terminate that contract? Wait a minute…

I say still dont approve him. Hes slimy enough to find another way to get thw slush fund through

Its like democrats have no concept of tasksies-backsies. Idiots.