Donald Trump has given his reason as to why it’s fine that the taxpayer funds his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
The president defended his plan to sue the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department for $10 billion, a lawsuit he said he is starting over the leaking of his tax information in 2020.
According to the BBC, the Trump family has accused them of failing to prevent the disclosure of ‘confidential, personal financial information’ by a contractor, Charles ‘Chaz’ Littlejohn, who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to leaking the disclosure to US news outlets, like the New York Times and ProPublica.
The lawsuit further claims the leaks ‘unfairly tarnished’ the business and public reputations of Trump and his sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, alleging that they’d also suffered financial harm.