1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to express my outrage at the reported Department of Justice agreement that appears to shield President Donald Trump, his family, and affiliated businesses from further federal tax scrutiny regarding past filings. If these reports are accurate, this arrangement represents a profound abuse of power and a direct assault on the principle that no American — including a sitting president — is above the law. The American people are being asked to accept extraordinary legal protections for a president whose business empire has already been tied to criminal tax fraud convictions. In 2022, two Trump Organization entities were convicted in New York on multiple criminal charges, including tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records. Prosecutors demonstrated a long-running scheme involving off-the-books compensation and tax evasion by senior executives. The Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges connected to that scheme and served jail time. In addition, Donald Trump himself was convicted in 2024 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York. He became the first current or former president in American history to be criminally convicted. Given this record, granting broad immunity or permanently ending audits involving the president, his family, and related business entities is not merely inappropriate — it is corrosive to public trust and dangerously incompatible with constitutional government. I am equally disturbed by the willingness of many Republican senators to function as a rubber stamp for an administration increasingly focused on personal protection, political retaliation, and self-enrichment rather than accountability and public service. Congress exists to provide oversight, not blind loyalty. Silence in the face of unprecedented executive self-dealing is complicity. If reports about this DOJ arrangement are true, I expect you to oppose it publicly, demand full transparency regarding its terms, and support immediate congressional hearings into whether executive authority is being abused to protect the president and his family from legal exposure. Americans pay taxes under threat of penalties, audits, and prosecution. We do not accept a separate standard of justice for politically connected elites. History will remember who defended the rule of law — and who surrendered it for partisan convenience.