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US President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, alleging that the agencies failed to protect his confidential tax records from a politically motivated leak that he claims caused “reputational and financial harm.”
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami on Thursday, names Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization as plaintiffs. It alleges that the IRS and Treasury “wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee” to leak private tax information to the New York Times and ProPublica, among other outlets.
“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 states, as cited by Bloomberg…
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