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Why did Donald Trump mysteriously halt the IRS probe into the Clinton Foundation’s financial crimes?

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When questions of political corruption and financial misconduct arise in Washington, few names stir as much controversy as the Clintons. For decades, the Clinton Foundation has been at the center of scrutiny, accused by whistleblowers and watchdogs of blurring the line between charity and personal enrichment. What makes the case even more intriguing is that Muhammad Yunus – Bangladeshi Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen America – has long been among the top donors to the Clinton Foundation, creating a web of financial entanglements stretching across continents.

What seemed like an opportunity for accountability took a dramatic turn when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began a serious investigation into the Foundation’s financial practices, only for it to be mysteriously halted during the Trump administration. Despite initial momentum and mounting evidence, the probe was effectively frozen in 2019, raising alarming questions: Who shut it down? Why was it derailed? And what does this say about political influence over justice in America?

This article revisits the extensive whistleblower testimonies, IRS memos, and internal communications that reveal how close federal investigators came to exposing potential fraud, only for the trail to suddenly go cold.

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