Trump seeks $10 billion from IRS in lawsuit over tax return leaks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " During 2019 and 2020, Charles Littlejohn, working as a consultant for the IRS, obtained the tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, including Elon Musk and Florida Senator Rick Scott, and leaked them to the press.
47% : In 2023, the Justice Department charged Littlejohn with unauthorized disclosure of tax returns.
43% : The subsequent reports in the the New York Times and ProPublica found the country's richest people paid little to no income tax.
40% : MIAMI (CN) -- President Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of the Treasury for $10 billion on Thursday over a leak of the president's tax returns during his first term in office.
38% : "Defendants' Privacy Act compliance and other security procedures were so insufficient that it took three years for the IRS to detect that Littlejohn breached the confidentiality and security protections of Plaintiffs' confidential tax returns and related tax information," Trump says in the complaint.
31% : Prosecutors claimed he intentionally applied for a job with the IRS to release Trump's tax returns because the president was "a threat to democracy.
31% : "Similarly, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has found that the IRS failed to establish safeguards to detect, let alone prevent, unauthorized access to confidential tax return information.
27% : In the 27-page complaint filed in Miami federal court, Trump accuses the IRS of not properly safeguarding Trump's financial information, allowing a former contractor to access his tax returns and disseminate them to "leftist media outlets" like the New York Times and ProPublica.

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