- United States
- S.C.
- Letter
The President is suing the IRS for 11 billion dollars for leaking his tax returns some years ago.
The person who leaked these documents was a contact worker who has already answered legally to this offense. The leaker went to prison, the IRS canceled the contract it had with the company that employed the leaker, and the IRS issued a rare public apology while strengthening it's pledge to enhancedata protection procedures.
President Trump was not the only high profile person to have their records leaked, but he and his sons are the only ones suing.
Despite the fact that he says he is suing as an individual, this is unprecedented as the IRS answers to him as the sitting President.
This would be yet another example of Donald Trump enriching himself by taking advantage of his position as the sitting US President. This is a gross violation of public trust, especially given any money awarded would come directly from tax payers money. It is corruption, without a doubt.
As Amy Hanauer, executive director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy so rightly said, "None of this matters to Donald Trump, whose real problem is that he simply does not see any boundary between what belongs to We the People of the United States and what belongs to him personally. There is a term for a leader of a country who can claim the treasure and labor of his people because he thinks it is owed to him. That term is king. In the United States, we do not have one, and we never will.”