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.
