President Donald Trump, the current chief executive of the United States government,

has just himself filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department for $10 billion due to the IRS

leaking his tax returns back during his first term.

Quote, President Donald Trump, on January 29th, filed a lawsuit against the IRS and the

Treasury Department over leaks of

his confidential tax returns during his first term in office. The lawsuit filed in the U.S.

District Court of Southern District of Florida is seeking at least $10 billion in damages,

alleging that the IRS and Treasury violated federal privacy laws. Trump brought the lawsuit

in his personal capacity.

His two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, together with the Trump organization,

are also listed as plaintiffs in the file. Which, again, having the sitting U.S. president

sue the Treasury Department might be the biggest example of the bully pulpit and practice

that I've ever seen.

Regardless, a little bit of background here in case you don't remember, during the 2016 presidential cycle,

the campaign cycle, the media made a sticking point of the fact that Trump would not release his

tax returns while he was on the campaign trail. And to be fair, that was a

little bit unusual, given the fact that since the 1970s, pretty much every major presidential

candidate did release his or her tax returns. Now, Trump claimed that his returns were under an IRS

audit and that he would release them once that IRS audit was complete. And then this tax return controversy, it followed him from the campaign into his actual presidency,

wherein one of the major lines of attack by the mainstream media against Trump,

besides the Russia gate stuff, had to do with his taxes.

And it's actually funny looking back on that period of time now, because it really was

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