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President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, arsenic helium accuses the national agencies of a nonaccomplishment to forestall a leak of the president's taxation accusation to quality outlets.
The suit, filed successful a Florida national tribunal connected Thursday (January 29, 2026), was besides brought by Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organisation arsenic plaintiffs.
In 2024, erstwhile IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. — who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defence and nationalist information tech steadfast — was sentenced to 5 years successful situation aft pleading blameworthy to leaking taxation accusation astir Mr. Trump and others to quality outlets.
Mr. Littlejohn gave information to The New York Times and ProPublica betwixt 2018 and 2020 successful leaks that appeared to beryllium “unparalleled successful the IRS's history,” prosecutors said.
‘I can’t let the US authorities to destruct privacy’: whistleblower
Mr. Trump's suit states that Mr. Littlejohn's disclosures to the quality organisations “caused reputational and fiscal harm to Plaintiffs and adversely impacted President Trump's enactment among voters successful the 2020 statesmanlike election.”
The president's suit comes aft the U.S. Treasury Department announced it has chopped its contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, earlier this week, aft Mr. Littlejohn, who worked for the firm, was charged and subsequently imprisoned for leaking taxation accusation to quality outlets astir thousands of the country's wealthiest people, including the president.
Representatives of Treasury and the IRS were not instantly disposable for comment.
