Jan. 29 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump sued the federal government on Thursday for $10 billion in alleged damages over an Internal Revenue Service employee's leak of his tax returns to news outlets during his first administration.
The civil lawsuit, which also names Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, two of the president's adult children, and their Trump Organization company as plaintiffs, accuses IRS and the U.S. Treasury of failing to protect Trump's confidential tax return information from public disclosure.
"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," Trump's filing states, claiming he, his sons and their company suffered "irreparable harm" to their reputations and financial interests.
Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, is serving a five-year prison sentence, handed down in January 2024, for pleading guilty to charges of disclosing Trump's tax return in 2019 and 2020 to The New York Times, ProPublica and other news organizations.
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