Trump sues IRS, Treasury Department for $10 billion over tax return leak

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Littlejohn, 40, pleaded guilty the following month to disclosing income tax return information without authorisation, and was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison.
31% : These lawsuit puts Trump in the unusual position of suing government agencies that are part of the Executive Branch, which he leads US President Donald Trump on Thursday sued the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the disclosure of his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020.
31% : In a complaint filed in Miami federal court, Trump, his adult sons, and his namesake company said the agencies failed to take "mandatory precautions" to prevent former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn from leaking their tax returns to "leftist media outlets", including the New York Times and ProPublica.
27% : Prosecutors charged Littlejohn in September 2023 with leaking tax records of Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans to the media, saying he was motivated by a political agenda.

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