President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for negligently allowing one of its contractors to maliciously leak his tax returns to the New York Times and other leftist media outlets in 2019.
Trump, who filed the 27-page federal complaint Thursday in Miami, also named the U.S. Treasury Department as a co-defendant.
Trump is suing in his personal capacity as the founder and former CEO of the Trump Organization, and not in his official capacity as president.
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The litigation was jointly filed by his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as the Trump Organization.
In the complaint, the president said the IRS did not properly safeguard his confidential tax-return data.
This enabled former IRS consultant Charles E.
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