United States | Congress members denounce reported Trump-IRS pact

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]And US President Donald Trump is reportedly involved in a new corruption scandal having become the first chief executive in the country's history from the Internal Revenue Service is barred from auditing. The announcement has sparked outrage among US citizens.

[00:00:14]Reporting from New York, our correspondent Harry Cammelot.

[00:00:19]>> Pure corruption in its most extreme form.

[00:00:23]This is how several members of the US Congress define President Donald Trump's agreement with the Internal Revenue Service IRS. This agreement will reportedly grant tax audit immunity to both the president and his entire family both retroactively and moving forward in addition to creating a multi-million dollar compensation fund for alleged damages suffered by those who attacked the capital on January 6th, 2021.

[00:00:56]>> As working families shorten their grocery lists as they struggle to make ends meet, Donald Trump has added a nearly $2 billion slush fund for his MAGA allies and January 6th insurrectionists to his wish list of pet projects he wants to fund with taxpayer dollars.

[00:01:15]Of all the corrupt things Donald Trump has done, this MAGA slush fund at the Department of Justice is one of the most depraved.

[00:01:23]>> However, according to analysts, the origin of the initial lawsuit appears even more shady.

[00:01:31]>> The origins of this case start with um the fact that years ago under Trump's previous administration, there was a leak of his tax statements, his tax returns that he did not want to voluntarily divulge, which every other president in the history of the United States has divulged voluntarily, yet he didn't want to do that, but somebody leaked it. So, fast forward to now, he's saying, "Okay, I'm going to sue the IRS for $10 billion in compensation for the damage that the IRS did for having leaked this information."

[00:02:06]>> And President Trump refused to make his tax return public precisely because of the alleged fraud that Americans were about to discover. While a working class American earning an annual salary of $60,000 is required to pay approximately $6,000 in federal taxes, the billionaire President Donald Trump paid only $750 in taxes during the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years. However, as someone well trained in legal loopholes, Trump knew that in this particular lawsuit, time was working against him.

[00:02:49]>> Since this case was nearing the next court date, in which it was already known that his case was extremely weak because it is an absurd case in which he is suing himself basically. He is suing the IRS which he controls and he's who's defended by the Department of Justice.

[00:03:09]And so, he controls both sides. It is completely self-dealing and absurd and alarming corruption.

[00:03:18]Since he knew that the judge was going to rule against him, he decided to cut a deal and settle this case with the Department of Justice.

[00:03:26]>> He is He is signing a contract with himself to use these funds for illicit purposes. Can you believe it, America?

[00:03:33]How low can we go with this president?

[00:03:36]>> Apparently, not low enough.

[00:03:39]Regarding the famous White House ballroom, the one that Trump claimed it would be funded by private donors, the president is now asking Congress for over a billion dollars for its construction. Meanwhile, for many the current physical condition of the White House serves as a vibrant reflection of the economic and social state in which the United States find itself under this administration.

[00:04:07]Pablo Daniel Joe and Henry Camelo Telesur New York.