https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-sues-irs-treasury-department-10-billion-leaked-tax-records-rcna256626 President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and the Treasury Department for $10 billion, alleging they failed to take necessary steps to prevent a former IRS employee from improperly disclosing his tax returns, and those of his sons and his company, to news outlets.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday at a federal courthouse in Miami, says Trump is suing in his personal capacity, not as president. The other plaintiffs include two of Trump’s sons — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — and the Trump Organization.
"Defendants have caused Plaintiffs reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other Plaintiffs’ public standing," the complaint says.
The Treasury and IRS did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday night.
A former IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 after he pleaded guilty the year before to leaking Trump’s tax records to The New York Times. The Times published exclusive reporting in 2020 that showed Trump had paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.
Trump at the time called the Times' story "totally fake news" and "made up." He added that the information had been "illegally obtained."
Littlejohn admitted in federal court that he also stole tax records of thousands of other wealthy people in 2019 and 2020, including billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
The IRS issued a statement in 2024 calling Littlejohn's actions "unacceptable" and added that it had sent a statement to affected taxpayers.
"It bears noting that the IRS has taken aggressive action more generally to enhance data security — to ensure, to the fullest extent feasible, that nothing like the Littlejohn incident can happen in the future," the statement said.
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Trump, who will now face off in court with his own administration, told reporters last year that he was seeking "a lot of money" in compensation from the federal government, based on past investigations into him by the Justice Department. The New York Times reported in October that Trump was seeking $230 million in damages from the Justice Department. Asked about the figure at the time, Trump told reporters, "It could be."
hey u kids, get out of my yello tree
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Grandpa wants you to get off his lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and he will sue you if you don't
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>>1485375 Most openly corrupt administration in American history.
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I don't know how the miggers are going to try to justify this, but I'm sure they will come up with a bullshit excuse that even they don't entirely believe in themselves.
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>>1485408 What exactly needs to be justified?
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>>1485411 Trump handing himself 10 billion.
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>>1485411 Your job, for one
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>>1485412 That's not how lawsuits work.
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>>1485375 Love to see how his legal team (or what's left of it) will try to argue that having a few tax returns made public did ten billion dollars of damage to him.
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>>1485399 The Biden administration actively conspired and acted to harm Trump, same with Hillar's campaign. It's an objective truth and they do owe him money
>>1485417 He is the president, arguably the most important person in the country. The amount is intentionally high so that the settlement is higher. It's basic negotiation
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>>1485422 Tough shit. Jimmy Carter couldn't keep his farm. You forfeit the right to do this shit when you become president and have control over these organizations.
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>>1485417 The former IRS employee did an illegal act by releasing private financial information. For a private individual it puts you at risk of having your bank, investment and credit accounts compromised. You will need to get new account numbers, replace cards and do a credit freeze and monitoring. This is very time consuming for an individual.
For a business the private financials will affect negotiations and contracts as sellers now know what you can afford to pay and will figure out what other clients charged or were charged.
The employee who did the illegal "leak" should also be punished. The right to privacy is in the 4th Amendment and that includes privacy of your personal papers. The IRS cannot release your personal papers without a legal purpose.
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>>1485422 10 billion??? You are a brainwashed waste of space
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Sigh It'd be nice if God ended that grifter kike.
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>>1485428 It's probably Stephen Miller himself. Really, they've been busted before.
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>>1485375 Oh sure, just casually give a little less than half of the entire operating budget of the IRS last year to yourself because some meanie managed to get ahold of your tax returns. That's proportionate compensation, totally.
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>>1485426 But he didn't. Trump said he wanted them released, then they were released
Thats not a crime any way you cut it
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>>1485414 It is when he controls the organization who is being sued and will order them to settle.
Our only hope is in 2029, assuming he his next coup isn't a success, is the Emolument Clause is invoked and all the money trump 'earned' from his presidency is seized and put into the treasury's coffers to pay down the debt he helped explode.
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>>1485422 the "they" who would be paying in this scenario is the taxpayers. Kys you retarded mongrel
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Trompa trompa
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>>1485422 >The Biden administration The leak happened during Trump 1.0.
>>1485426 >The employee who did the illegal "leak" should also be punished. That already happened. The Biden DOJ prosecuted him and he got five years.
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>>1485375 This is just..... so... so naked.
They usually dress it up.
*crypto
*supplaments
*taking investments for a fake business
*accepting a plane from a country that your son-in-law who is a dual Israeli citizen is doing "real estate" deals with.
*real estate deals that don't turn into the thing are planned, just marked as future income to take loans against
*lying about the values of property to arbitrage the loan rates of two banks
Shit like that. The whole defamation suits and settling to extort / accept bribes from companies who wanted to make monopolistic acquisitions was one thing.
A defamation suit against the IRS who will settle and give him our taxes is like, yet another completely more fucked up dimesion.
He's fucking taking cash out of the register. (-_- )
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I really wonder where all the Conspiracy Theorists are now, the ones that spun the weirdest, most ridiculous Theories in the past about 9/11, the government, overall, "Deep State", "Pizzagate"... now Trump tops all that with REAL criminal activities, turns the USA in a fascist Surveillance state, employees only loyal idiots and family around him and fights US citizens with brutal force...
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>>1486279 He's not Jewish so they don't actually care. Remember, 90% of all conspiracy theories end up being bitching about the Jews at their core.
