Trump’s Audacity Level: Suing The IRS For $10B Because His Tax Dodging Went Public
Donald J. Trump — the guy who spent years screaming “I’m under audit!” like a broken record while refusing to release his own tax returns — is now suing the IRS for $10 billion (that’s taxpayer money, you guys, our money) because some contractor leaked his returns back in 2018-2020. The president's own tax office signaled they would settle a lawsuit with him, 9 News reports.
This is perfect after Americans just filed their taxes, since Trump’s leaked returns showed that the overprivileged grifter paid next to nothing in taxes some years, lost a fuck-ton on his “genius” businesses, and generally made him look less like a billionaire mogul and more like a walking tax-loss harvesting machine.
The lawsuit’s bizarro math? Attorneys for Trump argued that the unauthorized release of his tax returns constitutes a separate legal violation for every person who viewed the leaked information. So — $10 billion in damages. According to Team Trump, the public finally seeing the actual numbers behind the golden toilet empire, is worthy of robbing $10 billion from taxpayers. Stop the steal, anyone?