Trump sues IRS, Treasury for ₹10 billion over leaked tax information
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Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax information, claiming reputational harm from the disclosures.
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets.
The suit, filed in a Florida federal court on Thursday (January 29, 2026), was also brought by Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organisation as plaintiffs.
In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. — who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm — was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking tax information about Mr. Trump and others to news outlets.
Mr. Littlejohn gave data to The New York Times and ProPublica between 2018 and 2020 in leaks that appeared to be “unparalleled in the IRS's history,” prosecutors said.
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Mr. Trump's suit states that Mr. Littlejohn's disclosures to the news organisations “caused reputational and financial harm to Plaintiffs and adversely impacted President Trump's support among voters in the 2020 presidential election.”
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