The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement
Andrew Weissman, a former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, argues that the U.S. legal system fails to hold politicians accountable for deliberate lies, unlike corporate executives, and warns that recent actions—like a $1.776 billion IRS settlement benefiting Trump—reveal a da
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