President Donald Trump sued the IRS and Treasury Department for at least $10 billion Thursday over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax information in 2019.
Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric, along with the Trump Organization, joined the suit, alleging the IRS breached its duty to protect their confidential tax returns from unauthorized inspection and public release — causing reputational damage, financial harm and public embarrassment. (RELATED: Jury Punishes City For Letting Teen Die Inside BLM Rioters’ Anarchist Commune)
The Fake News Media, just like Election time 2016, is bringing up my Taxes & all sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information & only bad intent. I paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 28, 2020
Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison in January 2024 after pleading guilty to leaking 15 years of Trump’s tax records to The New York Times and ProPublica. The Times published the leaked records in September 2020, revealing Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017. Trump called the story “totally fake news” and “illegally obtained.”
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 13: A sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seen on its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The suit maintains the articles contained false information, including allegations of tax avoidance.
Trump has filed two other damage claims against the government: one in 2023 over Russiagate and another in 2024 over the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, according to The Washington Post. (RELATED: Trump Admin Sues Illegal Migrant For Nearly $1 Million Over Failure To Self-Deport)