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WASHINGTON — In negotiations with Republican senators whose support he needed to be confirmed as attorney general, Todd Blanche formally rescinded a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate President Donald Trump's political allies.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 document Blanche sent to the lawmakers Sunday, he said the audit immunity, struck as part of a deal to resolve the president's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, would not protect the president from the examination of future tax filings. Instead, he noted, it “app...
