Trump Audit Immunity Deal ‘Illegal,’ Ex-IRS Official Tells Judge

The US Justice Department made an illegal deal with President Donald Trump to immunize him, his family and his businesses from audits or other federal probes related to past filings, a group of tax experts and former Internal Revenue Service officials told a judge.

The settlement, part of a broader agreement to resolve Trump’s controversial $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of his private data, violates a clause in the Constitution barring presidents from receiving any non-salary compensation, the group said in a filing Monday in federal court in Miami.

“The termination of tax audits alone could ...