Trump’s Plot to Pocket Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Just Might Succeed

Of all President Donald Trump’s kleptocracy schemes, perhaps the most shameless are his financial legal claims against the same executive branch over which he presides. Now Trump is on the verge of settling one of these, a lawsuit he filed in January against the Internal Revenue Service seeking $10 billion in damages for the leak of his tax returns to The New York Times. With negotiators working both sides of the table, Trump is nearing a very generous agreement, which is to...