President Donald J. Trump has a long history of being a litigious man, and that’s one characteristic that hasn’t changed much now that he gets his mail at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department in federal court in Miami on Thursday, seeking $10 billion in damages after claiming the agencies he currently oversees unlawfully allowed an IRS contractor to leak his tax returns and those of his sons and company — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump now run the Trump Organization.
“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 lawsuit alleges.
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump sues the IRS and Treasury for $10B for leaking his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020.
This was the ultimate act of election interference. I hope he gets every penny.
A spokesperson for his legal team states: “The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue,… pic.twitter.com/Sb7wwXjp55
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 30, 2026
In 2024, IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking the federal tax records to The New York Times in 2020. He also sent a storage device with the leaked information to another news organization, ProPublica, according to investigators.
A Trump spokesperson said in a statement, “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.”
Trump has had recent success suing his media antagonists.
In December 2024, ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Trump for $15 million over George Stephanopoulos claiming on-air that Trump was “liable for rape,” which incorrectly described verdicts in E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuits — the jury finding was that Trump was liable for “sexual abuse” over a questionable incident that supposedly took place three decades ago.
In July 2025, Paramount, which owns CBS, settled a lawsuit with Trump for $16 million, after he claimed “60 Minutes” deceptively edited a 2024 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
In both settlements, the money is earmarked for Trump’s future presidential library.
Earlier this month, Trump sued JPMorgan Chase Bank and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion in Florida state court, alleging the bank closed his accounts in 2021 “as a result of political and social motivations,” according to CBS News. The bank responded to say the suit “has no merit.”
In July 2025, Trump sued The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion in July over a story on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, with CBS News reporting that the newspaper vowed to “vigorously defend” itself.
The president also had a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times tossed by a judge, after suing the newspaper last fall over a series of articles that scrutinized his business career.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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