Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on the “Todd Blanche Super Pardon” for Trump, His Family and Their Businesses

Washington, D.C. (May 29, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement after two federal judges in different courts took steps to at least temporarily halt the corrupt settlement between President Trump and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that purported to give Trump, his family and his businesses a Super Pardon and create a tax-payer funded $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 rioters and MAGA foot soldiers:

“In a magnificent day for our Constitution and the rule of law, two district judges have acted to halt the astonishingly corrupt settlement of IRS v. Trump. As one of the judges ruled today, echoing arguments first made in an amicus brief I led with my colleagues Richard Neal, Joe Neguse, and Hakeem Jeffries, on behalf of 93 Members of Congress, the court must now investigate whether the entire settlement was part of a ‘fraud on the court.’ I hope the judges will quickly and permanently block this dirty deal so Blanche and Trump’s shocking fraud on the court does not become an irreversible fraud on the country.

“But Congress need not wait for the courts. We have the power ourselves to turn off the spigot of federal money and block the sweeping amnesty for the Trump family and their businesses at the heart of this epic fraud. 

“Congress can and must pass legislation to block not just the theft of $1.8 billion in taxpayer funds but also to address the other equally pernicious aspect of this collusive settlement: the sweetest-of-all-sweetheart deals in the world, a ‘Todd Blanche Super Pardon’ that the Acting Attorney General snuck in to shield Trump, his family, and their businesses from any crime or misconduct ‘presently known or unknown’ forever.

“Literally overnight, Acting Attorney General Blanche signed and inserted a self-defined ‘addendum’ to the settlement a day after the ‘weaponization fund’ was publicly announced. The one-page document purports to grant full immunity to President Trump, his family, and their businesses for any violations of federal law, criminal, civil, or administrative. The entire federal government is ‘FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing’ any pending claims, ‘whether presently known or unknown’ against Trump, his family members and businesses, or collecting any taxes, fines or other payments due to the U.S. government.

“This is a super-pardon for the ages. It shields all the Trumps and their businesses not only from enforcement of any taxes they may have dodged, or enforcement of any fines or payments they may owe to the government, but from ‘any and all’ consequences for violating any federal criminal or civil law. This means that Trump and his family get an unlimited number of ‘get out of jail free cards’ for any civil or criminal violations that could be investigated and prosecuted by the federal government, including: 

• Any liability for insider trading on prediction markets like Kalshi or Polymarket that Donald Trump, Jr. or any other Trump may be involved with.
• Any bribes or kickbacks paid by Jared Kushner or any other Trump family member to the Saudi royal family, or vice versa, while doing real estate and financial deals in Saudi Arabia, in violation of federal bribery laws and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• Any allegations of sexual assault by Trump revealed in the Epstein Files. 
• Any secret, no-bid government contracts Donald Trump, Jr. or any other Trump steered toward companies he has invested in.
• Hundreds of individual stock trades by Trump or any of his family members or businesses that look like insider trading.
• The $100 million comprehensive tax audit Trump has been fighting since 2010. 

“We’ve known for a long time that Trump is a one-man crime wave. Now, Acting Attorney General Blache, Trump’s former personal defense attorney, has given his former client the sweetest-of-all-sweetheart deals—a deal even sweeter than a presidential pardon—which puts Trump, his family, and all of their businesses totally and permanently above all criminal and civil law and allows them to dodge all taxes, fines, and payments that they may owe to the American people.”