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 Miami federal court lawsuit says the IRS and Treasury failed to prevent the leak of Trumps tax records by former IRS employee Charles Littlejohn.

Les reclama más de 10.000 millones por “investigarlos con fines políticos”

The lawsuit seeks $10bn (£7.25bn) in damages after tax information from Trump and his family was leaked to the media.

Agencies accused of failing to take precautions to stop former contractor leaking returns to ‘leftist media outlets’

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…

The suit, filed in a Florida federal court, includes the president's sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs.

"While Trump is weaponizing taxpayer privacy laws for his own benefit, his Treasury Department is flouting those exact same laws to send tens of thousands of individual tax…