{"id":76766,"date":"2026-07-30T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/trumps-tax-immunity-scheme-hoists-president-by-his-own-petard-on-blanche-ag-nomination\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:55:23","slug":"trumps-tax-immunity-scheme-hoists-president-by-his-own-petard-on-blanche-ag-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/trumps-tax-immunity-scheme-hoists-president-by-his-own-petard-on-blanche-ag-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s tax immunity scheme hoists president by his own petard on Blanche AG nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senators sought written limits on settlement, but president held firm despite risk to attorney general pick<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/30\/donald-trump-todd-blanche-irs-justice-immigration-iran-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s refusal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/30\/todd-blanche-attorney-general-doj-nomination-trump\">to officially end <\/a>a hugely controversial agreement giving him broad tax immunity and creating a 1.8bn slush fund underscored how the US president\u2019s own self interest takes precedence above all else in his government.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/trump-weaponization-fund\"> has said<\/a> that the slush fund portion of the agreement was dead. And for a few brief hours on Wednesday, it seemed that the president might agree to a relatively modest request from two Republican senators to put in writing that there were certain limits on an extraordinary tax immunity deal. After all, it seemed like a small price to pay in exchange for getting Blanche, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/who-is-todd-blanche-trump-attorney-general-pick\">a staunch Trump loyalist<\/a> who previously served as his personal lawyer, confirmed permanently as the US attorney general.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/30\/trump-refuses-to-narrow-tax-immunity-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senators sought written limits on settlement, but president held firm despite risk to attorney general pick US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump\u2019s refusal to officially end a hugely controversial agreement giving him broad tax immunity and creating a 1.8bn slush fund underscored how the US president\u2019s own self interest takes precedence above &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s tax immunity scheme hoists president by his own petard on Blanche AG nomination\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/trumps-tax-immunity-scheme-hoists-president-by-his-own-petard-on-blanche-ag-nomination\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s tax immunity scheme hoists president by his own petard on Blanche AG nomination\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}