U.S. President Donald Trump scored a major personal legal victory over the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday as the agency he has long reviled was barred by the U.S. Justice Department from continuing any ¡°known and unknown¡± probes into his tax returns.
The one-page agreement signed Tuesday by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche adds to a controversial settlement struck a day earlier in which Trump agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS in January over a 2019 leak of his tax records to the press.
Under the deal, the IRS is ¡°forever barred¡± from pursuing ¡°any and all claims¡± or demands for damages that have been or could have been filed against Trump before the agreement was reached. The accord represents a major triumph by Trump over an agency he has criticized for years for auditing his finances, but it¡¯s opened up the administration to criticism from Democrats and ethics groups.
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