'Naked Corruption': Trump Ripped After Bragging He 'Won A Lot Of Money' From Taxpayers
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Trump claimed he would give the money to charity, but his critics aren't buying it.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that at least one of his lawsuits against the U.S. government was “essentially” over ― and he won.
NBC’s Tom Llamas asked Trump about the $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department that he filed last week.
“You can’t leak documents. And any money that I win, I’ll give it to charity, 100% to charities, charities that will be approved by government or whatever,” Trump said.
Trump filed the suit because a former IRS contractor leaked his tax returns to The New York Times and ProPublica during his first term, violating IRS confidentiality rules. Those returns showed that Trump, a billionaire with a massive real estate portfolio and other ventures, paid little to no federal income tax in a number of years.
Trump also spoke about another lawsuit he filed demanding $230 million from taxpayers for, among other things, the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, where agents found classified documents.
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