PresidentDonald Trumpis suing the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department for $10 billion, alleging that they failed to prevent a former IRS employee fromimproperly disclosing his tax returns, and those of his sons and his company, to news outlets.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday at a federal courthouse in Miami, says Trump is suing in his personal capacity, not as president. The other plaintiffs include two of Trump's sons — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — and the Trump Organization.
"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," the complaint said.
The Treasury and IRS did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday night.
A former IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, wassentenced to 5 years in prisonin 2024 after hepleaded guilty the year beforeto leaking Trump's tax records to The New York Times. The Times in 2020 published exclusive reporting thatshowed Trumphad paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.
