{"id":22291,"date":"2026-05-13T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22291"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:31:29","slug":"doj-considers-settling-trumps-irs-lawsuit-which-could-send-taxpayer-money-directly-to-the-presidents-pockets-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22291","title":{"rendered":"DOJ considers settling Trump\u2019s IRS lawsuit which could send taxpayer money directly to the president\u2019s pockets: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Trump sued the IRS and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/treasury-department-donald-trump-washington-tehran-hong-kong-b2974508.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury Department&nbsp;<\/a>for $10 billion in January, accusing the agencies of failing to prevent a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/trump-tax-returns-losses-income-avoidance-polls-b669865.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leak of the president\u2019s tax information<\/a>&nbsp;during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DOJ is now holding internal discussions about potentially settling the case<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a novel case given that Trump oversees the IRS, and two parties in a lawsuit must be on opposite sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/doj-considers-settling-trump-irs-040759004.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/doj-considers-settling-trump-irs-040759004.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department for $10 billion in January, accusing the agencies of failing to prevent a leak of the president\u2019s tax information during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ is now holding internal discussions about potentially settling the case<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is a novel case given that Trump oversees the IRS, and two parties in a lawsuit must be on opposite sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/doj-considers-settling-trump-irs-040759004.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[423,951,431,818,1121,350,221,1303,1619,92,201,141,1120,170],"class_list":["post-22291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-corruption","tag-democracy","tag-department-of-justice","tag-department-of-treasury","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-irs","tag-lawsuit","tag-leaks","tag-rule-of-law","tag-taxes","tag-treasury","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22292,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions\/22292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}