Fraud and Scams: Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax information

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So we see all the hollering from the usual suspects about the newest non-white group to hate of the moment-Somalis. Meanwhile, Trump and his family are suing the IRS to get 10 billion of our dollars in return for supposedly leaking tax information for taxes he never paid. But that's OK, and excuses will be made for it.

Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax information​

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 between 2018 and 2020.

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

The filing alleges that the leak of Trump and the Trump Organization's confidential tax records caused "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."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-5693662/trump-sues-irs-and-treasury-for-10-billion-over-leaked-tax-information

Doing a little research, it's even worse than Trump's alleged damages
Trumps lawsuit is BOGUS, because the statute cited has Trump suing the wrong party.

President Donald Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization are the plaintiffs in a $10 billion lawsuit filed in Florida federal court against the IRS and the U.S. Treasury Department, alleging that the 2019–2020 leak of their tax returns caused severe reputational and financial harm, as well as public embarrassment.

The tax returns were leaked to media outlets, including The New York Times and ProPublica, by former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn.

The suit centers on 26 U.S.C. § 7431, which allows for damages of at least $1,000 per act of unauthorized disclosure. The plaintiffs argue that every time a report based on the leaked data was viewed, it constituted a separate unlawful disclosure, leading to the $10 billion demand.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:7431%20edition:prelim)

(1) Inspection or disclosure by employee of United States
If any officer or employee of the United States knowingly, or by reason of negligence, inspects or discloses any return or return information with respect to a taxpayer in violation of any provision of section 6103, such taxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against the United States in a district court of the United States.

(2) Inspection or disclosure by a person who is not an employee of United States
If any person who is not an officer or employee of the United States knowingly, or by reason of negligence, inspects or discloses any return or return information with respect to a taxpayer in violation of any provision of section 6103 or in violation of section 6104(c), such taxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against such person in a district court of the United States.


AI Overview
No, government contractors are not federal employees.
Contractors work for private companies (contractor employer), while federal employees work directly for the U.S. government.

This means that (2) applies, not (1)

And (2) says .... such taxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against such person in a district court of the United States.

Trump is entitled to sue former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn