On 15-16 July 2026 during his Senate confirmation hearing, Todd Blanche repeatedly violated a court order which prohibited the use of the word "settlement" to be used in any official hearing of any kind in describing the private resolution of a lawsuit improperly advanced in Federal Court by President Trump by non-adverse parties. The order also found the resolution made without the knowledge of the Court was a collusion between non-adverse parties who had common goals.
Additionally, Blanche also wrongly asserted that the resolution's addendum, which essentially gave Trump IRS audit immunity for any past tax returns of his, any of his over 500 business entities, and his two sons up to the date of the document, was common practice. The IRS has never granted audit immunity. The you can hope for is a resolution of "No Change", which means there is very little chance of another audit of that tax return --- unless evidence of fraud is later found.
While politicians and pundits have focused on the unjustified $1.776 billion fund created by the Private Resolution which would be used for distributions to third parties unrelated to the case, because it is US government money being used for purely personal political purposes and has been called a "slush" fund, the Addendum is far worse and more ominous, because it gives the store away in not only
providing audit immunity for past tax returns but from all criminal and civil suits for the same period raising the question of just what has Trump and his two sons done in all the years prior to the date or the private resolution which required a barnhouse "pardon".
There are so many legal problems with the contents of the Private Resolution and the Addendum that the case was headed towards dismissal before a motion to dismiss was made by Trump's Counsel. During all court hearings the DOJ did nothing --- no motions, no response to motions, no statements, and the Judge granted the dismissal noting there was no settlement.
The Internal Revenue Code Section which applies to this lawsuit only allows two years after plaintiff's discovery of tax return information disclosure which expired in 2022 (the lawsuit was filed in 2025) for the issue in the lawsuit. The IRC Section also limits liability to $1000 or actual provable damages if caused by the IRS. In this case the disclosure was not caused by an IRS employee, but a third party contractor's employee. In fact, IRS attorneys had prepared a 25 page document listing all the legal issues and detailing all the legal failings in the lawsuit to provide DOJ with adequate defense, but DOJ never presented the document to the court or used it, because DOJ said nothing to the Court.
The lawsuit dealt with the disclosure by a third party contractor of an ongoing many years tax audit involving two years in which Trump may have claimed the same casino failure losses, which is now amounting to over $100,000,000, which was the requested refund of all taxes paid between 2005 and 2008 plus interest. Given the immunity granted in the Addendum, how many tax issues may exist between the date of the Addendum and all prior years for Trump, all of his over 500 businesses, an IRS regulation requiring an audit of each annual tax return of a sitting President, and his two sons. After all Trump is a man with 34 felony convictions.
The Private Resolution is signed by Woodard for DOJ and Bisignano, who is directly answerable to Treasury Secretary Bessent, for IRS and the Addendum is signed only by Blanche for DOJ and no one else, not even counsel for Trump. The Judge, after being presented with motion filed by 35 former judges arguing that the parties perpetrated a fraud on the court, which eventually led to her court order with respect to the "settlement" as a collusion between non-adverse parties and filing with bar associations with respect to Woodard, Blanche, and the DOJ court attorney. Additionally, former IRS officials have asked the Judge to review the the audit immunity as unprecedented and breathtakingly improper".
In his Senate testimony, Blanch said the "slush" fund is no longer active but has refused to state that in writing and he dismissed the barnhouse, barnyard, and whole farm immunity as common practice when it is unprecedented.
Any Senator who votes to move his nomination as Attorney General or votes for his nomination is voting approval for a man who is defying the rule of law and equal justice for all and may have directly participated in what may be (how is it not) a collusion to defraud the United States of America. This is not a political choice in a free society; it is a clear moral. ethical, black and white choice which does not require a profile in courage.
Blanche is not qualified to be Attorney General. As he said he "is was" Trump's personal attorney and he is acting like it.
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