Robert Reich: How To Counter Trump’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against Us – OpEd
Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion.
He accuses the IRS of not doing enough to prevent a former IRS contractor from leaking Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in 2020. (Using those tax returns, The Times published a series of articles revealing that Trump had paid little or no income tax for many years.)
On February 18, Trump’s lawyers served the government with the lawsuit, giving the Justice Department 60 days to respond — a deadline that will be reached, ironically, just around tax day, April 15.
So who’s representing you and me and other American taxpayers in this lawsuit? After all, if he wins, we’ll be the ones to have to fork over the $10 billion to him.
This is beyond bizarre. Trump heads the executive branch of the United States government. And since being installed as president for the second time, he’s consolidated that power into the closest thing to a dictatorship we’ve ever had in this country.
He’s decided on his own to wage a war in Iran, decided on his own not to spend money that Congress........
