Every day brings worse news

As a longtime contributor to the letters column, I have always tried to do something more than just complain. Now every day is worse than the one before, and what I was saddened by yesterday pales in comparison to what the Trump Admisistration announced that day.

Now the Justice Department temporarily headed by President Donald Trump's defense attorney has announced a settlement in the case where he was suing the IRS for $10 billion dollars for the alleged leaking of his tax returns.

The terms of the settlement call for the U.S. government to set up a nearly $1.776 billion fund “to compensate allies of the Republican President who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted.” This fund is open to any U.S. citizen including those convicted of crimes from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and police officers. Also included in the settlement is a provision that will permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump by the IRS. The IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization’s existing audits.

This coupled with the Supreme Court ruling making the president free of any criminal liability for anything he does as president explains why he just does whatever he pleases.

We’re still waiting for his resolution of the Iran “incursion' fiasco and the issue that just won't go away involving his “best friend” Jeffrey Epstein and those children that he knows nothing about.

Jack Halpin

Arlington Heights