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Channel GOP · Hearing · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Todd Blanche admits he doesn't know who wrote the tax-immunity language in Trump's IRS settlement

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At a Senate Democrats' press conference after Blanche's confirmation hearing for attorney general, a senator says a Florida court reviewing the IRS "settlement" found no adversarial relationship between the parties, with Blanche acting as lawyer for both sides. The senator says that when asked who wrote the paragraph granting broad "get out of jail free" language for tax crimes, Blanche said he didn't write it and didn't know who did, guessing it might have been the Justice Department or the IRS.

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other - Senate Judiciary Democrats' press conference after Todd Blanche's attorn
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If you look at some of the most egregious examples, you look at this slush fund agreement, this IRS so -called settlement, that a court in Florida recently reviewed and found that there was no adversarial relationship between the parties. Basically, the president was negotiating with the president, and Todd Blanch was the lawyer for both. And we saw this when I asked the Attorney General, who wrote that IRS settlement agreement, who wrote that one paragraph, brought expansive get out of jail free for tax crimes language, who wrote that and acknowledged he didn't write it and acknowledged he didn't know who did write it. Now he thought that it might have been written by the Department of Justice or maybe the IRS but he didn't know when you read the language of it it looked a lot like it was written by the press

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