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  May 23, 2026   CORRUPTION IRS settlement or self-serve fountain of fraud? In a brazen act of self-dealing, the administration  announced a settlement  had been reached between the IRS and President Trump, who had  sued the agency  for $10 billion over leaked tax records. POGO had filed an  amicus brief  questioning the constitutional merits and obvious conflicts of interest in the case, as Trump was essentially suing himself and controlling both sides of the litigation. The lawsuit was unlikely to survive a trial. But the settlement is even more blatantly corrupt. It  “forever” bars  the IRS from examining the president’s past tax returns and creates a $1.8 billion slush fund that will likely  “funnel taxpayer money to President Trump’s allies”  with no obvious criteria or oversight. The “self-dealing settlement” has brought sharp rebukes from  both sides  of  the aisle ...