US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, accusing them of unlawfully disclosing his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020, Reuters reported.
Here's what complaint said
According to Reuters, 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.
“Defendants have caused plaintiffs reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other plaintiffs’ public standing,” the complaint said.
The IRS operates under the Treasury Department, and neither agency responded right away to requests for comment made after business hours.
The lawsuit also names Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization as additional plaintiffs, Reuters reported.
(With inputs from Reuters)
