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The Trump administration announced a $1.7 billion compensation fund as part of a settlement resolving President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over
A filing in federal court in Florida, where the case was brought last year, confirmed Trump’s bid to withdraw the lawsuit. The post BREAKING: Trump Moves to Drop $10B Lawsuit Against IRS Over Leaked Tax Returns first appeared on Mediaite.
But critics immediately erupted after realizing the announcement landed almost simultaneously with Trump’s sudden decision to abandon his own lawsuit against the IRS, a lawsuit that had triggered weeks of outrage over reports that Trump’s team was privately discussing a massive taxpayer-funded payout connected to the case.
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Trump’s brazen plan for a $1.7 billion slush fund
Trump will reportedly drop his IRS lawsuit — for a price.
It is true that the judge supervising the case pointed out that while Trump is suing the IRS in a personal capacity, he leads the agency in an official capacity. As such, she has asked both his lawyers and the Department of Justice to file memorandums demonstrating whether there is enough opposition between the two parties to warrant a lawsuit.