Of course the Times put it all in story, saying in 10 of 15 years Trump had paid no taxes and only paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017.
The leaker, indicted by Biden’s Attorney General, got 5 years in prison.
And Trump, back in the White House, just sued his own Treasury Department for $10 BILLION over the leak – so we’ve got a lawsuit with Trump on one side, the Treasury Department on the other and, sitting in the White House, Trump controls the department he’s suing.
As Trump said last year after he sued his own Justice Department – it’s strange when he gets to make a decision about paying himself.
A White House ethics lawyer for George Bush chimed in, pointing out, “His own appointees could turn around and say: ‘Let’s give the Trump family a couple of billion. That’s a fair sell’.”
Here’s one last strange twist: In his lawsuit Trump accuses the IRS of not doing enough to stop the leaker. But his tax returns were leaked in 2020 – when he was president. So he’s suing the government he now controls for a mistake made by the government he controlled in 2020.
Temptation whispers, power opens a door, a president sues…taxpayers foot the bill if he wins.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
