Putting one class (family) above the law

[BlueAJ]

How can immunity be provided to an entire group (the Trump family) in perpetuity? Doesn't that violate the concept of equality? How does Trump's great great grandchild or whomever marries into that clan get to have the ability to commit tax fraud carte blanche forever and ever without the risk of an audit? That is basically setting up the Trump family as a 'potential' defacto legally sanctioned criminal enterprise.

[Dave Bowman]

1. That's so sick. Mobsters with immunity, Capone would be jealous..

[Irish_Dem]

2. It is a legally sanctioned crime syndicate.

Access to all US assets and total immunity.

Too late, it is a done deal.

[canetoad]

3. K&R

Said as much here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221277949#post5

[Igel]

4. You misrepresent the terms of the proposed settlement.

Presupposed in the question, "How can immunity be provided to an entire group (the Trump family) in perpetuity?" is that the settlement has the provision that "Trump's family is granted tax-audit immunity in perpetuity."

That is false.

Like Biden's pardon, it's for past, um, 'alleged improprieties.' Biden didn't grant Hunter (or anybody else in that list of folk) a pardon for anything that happened in 6/25 or next year. He granted them a pardon for violations of federal law that may have been done as of the date in the pardon. He did it because he assumed, rightly or wrongly, that after Trump was inaugurated then and only then would prosecutors go after those that were his friends and allies and family.

Same with this provision. It bars audits for Trump-family federal tax-related matters that are before a specific date already past. Because he assumes, rightly or wrongly, that after his successor is inaugurated prosecutors would go after those that were his friends and allies and family.