"In January, Trump, two of his sons, and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit against Trump's own Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, demanding $10 billion in damages. The suit stemmed from the case of Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor who pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the tax returns of Trump and several billionaires to the New York Times and ProPublica in 2019 and 2020. In a more sensible world, the release of those documents should have prompted national elected officials to publicly reckon with the fact that the government and the Americans they supposedly represent were being cheated out of billions of dollars, but instead, Littlejohn faced harsh prosecution."
"He was sentenced to five years in prison in Jan. 2024. However, even at the time, Trump and his organization made a show of protesting the sentencing. In their view, Littlejohn had not suffered enough and Trump had not been made sufficiently whole for the revelation of information that presidents and presidential nominees customarily have chosen to make public of their own volition since the early 1970s. Trump attorney Alina Habba made a big public stink outside of Littlejohn's sentencing hearing."
"There are many ways that Donald Trump is currently making your life worse, not to mention generally waging war on the concept of "the future": accelerating the death of the biosphere, doing his best to eliminate the federal government and university as sites of middle-class employment, driving up the price of energy now and food in the immediate future thanks to the idiotic war with Iran he's losing alongside his buddy Benjamin Netanyahu (who, if you are Palestinian, Lebanese, or Iranian, is trying to kill your family with Trump's help), and making it impossible for you to vote against any of this."
"He is also straight-up stealing your money to redirect it to the freaks and sex offenders who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021."
Trump and his organization are described as worsening daily life by accelerating biosphere decline, weakening federal government and universities as middle-class employers, raising energy and food costs, and restricting the ability to vote against these outcomes. The account also claims money is being stolen to benefit people associated with the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. In January, Trump, two sons, and the Trump Organization sued the Treasury Department and the IRS for $10 billion in damages. The lawsuit is linked to Charles Littlejohn, an IRS contractor who pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking tax returns of Trump and other billionaires. Littlejohn received a five-year prison sentence in January 2024, and Trump’s side protested the punishment, arguing it did not provide sufficient remedy for the disclosure of information presidents typically release voluntarily.
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