Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn (opens in new tab)

Would it be legal for President Donald Trump to effectively pick up the phone and order a major U.S. government agency to hand over huge piles of taxpayer money to a group of his political allies? We may be about to find out.ABC News reports that Trump is likely to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service as part of a new settlement that amounts to one of his most corrupt schemes yet. It would create a new $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies supposedly victimized b...