Trump's Plot to Pocket Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Just Might Succeed

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KLEPTOCRACY
Trump’s Plot to Pocket Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Just Might Succeed

The president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS is unique in that both negotiators are working for the same side.


Donald Trump arrives at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.
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Of all President Donald Trump’s kleptocracy schemes, perhaps the most shameless are his financial legal claims against the same executive branch over which he presides. Now Trump is on the verge of settling one of these, a lawsuit he filed in January against the IRS seeking $10 billion in damages for the leak of his tax returns to The New York Times. With negotiators working both sides of the table, Trump is nearing a very generous agreement, which is to say a shameless fleecing of the American taxpayer.

Before proceeding, let’s catalog Trump’s three personal financial claims against his own administration.

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