President Donald Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr.
and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization have launched a sweeping $10 billion lawsuit accusing the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department of presiding over one of the most egregious breaches of taxpayer confidentiality in modern history.
According to the Gateway Pundit, the civil action, filed in federal court in Miami, contends that federal authorities failed in their basic duty to safeguard the Trumps private tax information from an ideologically driven insider.
The complaint centers on former IRS contractor Charles Chaz Littlejohn, who worked at the agency between 2018 and 2020 and has already admitted to unlawfully accessing and distributing the tax data of a high-ranking government official and thousands of wealthy Americans to left-leaning media outlets.
Court filings and a Justice Department press release identify that official as President Trump, referred to in charging documents as Public Official A, whose confidential returns were funneled to News Organization 1, now known to be The New York Times. Littlejohn also reportedly stole extensive IRS data on thousands of affluent taxpayers and passed that trove to two outlets, The New York Times and ProPublica, which then built a series of politically charged stories around the purloined records.
In July and August 2020, Littlejohn separately stole tax return information for thousands of the nations wealthiest individuals. Littlejohn was again able to evade IRS detection. In November 2020, Littlejohn disclosed this tax return information to News Organization 2, which published over 50 articles using the stolen data. Littlejohn then obstructed the forthcoming investigation into his conduct by deleting and destroying evidence of his disclosures, the DOJ previously said.
Despite the scale of the theft and the obvious political ramifications, Littlejohn received a mere five-year prison sentence, a punishment many political leaders argued should have been closer to 60 years given the magnitude of the breach and the damage to public trust.
The lawsuit argues that the IRS and Treasury not only failed to prevent the leaks in 2019 and 2020, but also allowed a hostile internal culture in which a rogue, politically-motivated employee could weaponize confidential data against a sitting President and his family.
The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information about President Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to the New York Times, ProPublica and other left-wing news outlets, which was then illegally released to millions of people, a spokesperson for Trumps legal team told CNBC.
CNBC reported that the plaintiffs are seeking at least $10 billion in damages, underscoring the seriousness with which they view both the privacy invasion and the broader constitutional implications.
In addition to President Trump, the suit names his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization, which the brothers oversee, as victims of a federal bureaucracy that conservatives have long warned is vulnerable to partisan abuse.
For many on the right, the Littlejohn episode reinforces deep concerns that powerful agencies like the IRS can be turned into tools against political opponents when internal safeguards fail and accountability is weak.
By forcing this case into court, the Trumps are not only demanding redress for the unlawful exposure of their own records, but also challenging a federal establishment that allowed sensitive financial data to become ammunition for left-wing media campaigns.
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