DOJ division that should have handled Trump IRS lawsuit has no record of it
DOJ division that should have handled Trump IRS lawsuit has no record of it
- Thu, Jun 18 2026 at 11:30 AM
Mark,
The DOJ’s Civil Division claims to have no records of communication related to Trump v. IRS or the following settlement agreement or negotiations—even though it should usually handle a case like this.
Let's be clear: a case of this magnitude leaving no trace of communications is incredibly odd. It’s yet another striking confirmation of the irregular, collusive process that produced an enormously corrupt result.In January, President Trump, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization sued the IRS and the Treasury Department, seeking $10 billion in damages for the unauthorized disclosure of their tax returns by former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn.
Trump brought this suit against the federal government “in his personal capacity” while simultaneously overseeing the agencies he sued, making him free to “work out a settlement with myself.”
This is the first time a sitting president has sued and settled a case with their own administration.
Adding to the blatant self-dealing, apparently none of the civil servant lawyers who ordinarily deal with a case like this—or at the very least would be formally alerted or consulted on it—were involved in defending the United States or negotiating the settlement.
Despite mounting vigorous defenses in another case arising from Littlejohn’s leaks, the DOJ’s Civil Division claims to have no record of so much as being notified about Trump’s case, up to and including Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate.
No DOJ attorney even formally entered an appearance in the case before President Trump and his senior political appointees at DOJ executed a collusive settlement on May 18.
This settlement created an unprecedented and unlawful slush fund that allowed the administration to hand out nearly $2 billion of taxpayer money to the president’s allies. For now, the slush fund is indefinitely shut down—thanks to lawsuits like ours that challenged the fund. But the part of the settlement that barred IRS audits of Trump and his family remains in place.
Given the extraordinary way this case unfolded, a settlement of this magnitude leaving no trace in the files of the agencies typically responsible for it, further solidifies the corruption of this settlement.
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