President Donald Trump is dropping a lawsuit he had filed against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and instead devoting funds to victims of weaponized government agencies.
The president had initially filed the lawsuit against the IRS in January, seeking $10 billion in damages after it was revealed that former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn had illegally leaked nearly two decades’ worth of Trump’s tax returns to left-wing media outlets, in addition to leaking the private tax information of thousands of other Americans.
The IRS “had a duty to safeguard and protect Plaintiffs’ confidential tax returns and related tax return information from such unauthorized inspection and public disclosure,” Trump argued in the lawsuit. “Accordingly, Defendants were obligated to have appropriate technical, employee screening, security, and monitoring systems to prevent Littlejohn’s unlawful conduct. Defendants failed to take such mandatory precautions.”
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The media outlets to whom Littlejohn provided Trump’s tax documents, including The New
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