{"id":2605196,"date":"2026-05-20T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-may-release-his-tax-returns-after-irs-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:17:03","slug":"trump-may-release-his-tax-returns-after-irs-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-may-release-his-tax-returns-after-irs-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;may release&#8217; his tax returns after IRS settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-may-release-his-tax-returns-after-irs-settlement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Donald Trump said Wednesday that he \u201cmay release\u201d his current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-grants-26-pardons-and-3-commutations-includes-numerous-prominent-names\/\" title=\"Trump Grants 26 Pardons And 3 Commutations, Includes Numerous Prominent Names\">tax returns<\/a> to the public, arguing that both the leaked earlier returns from his first term and the potential current ones show he pays a lot of tax. He also said the IRS was not permitted to leak confidential returns that were kept in \u201clock boxes,\u201d and claimed they were released to \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article notes that presidents traditionally made their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nonprofit-files-complaints-against-trump-attorneys-but-almost-no-public-discipline\/\" title=\"Nonprofit files complaints against Trump attorneys but almost no ... discipline\">tax returns public<\/a> after the 1972 Watergate-era precedent, but Trump declined to do so when he took office in 2017, leading to the earlier leak. That leak stemmed from a former IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, who was later imprisoned for unauthorized disclosure to news organizations, including the *New York Times*.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently moved to drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak. In connection with that dispute, the IRS agreed to a settlement that includes creating a nearly $1.<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund<\/a> for people claiming lawfare under the biden administration, which Trump\u2019s side says is not partisan. The settlement also bars the federal government from investigating or prosecuting trump, his sons, and the Trump Institution regarding their tax issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> said on Wednesday he \u201cmay release\u201d his current tax returns to the public after the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/internal-revenue-service\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2339\">IRS<\/a> reached a settlement over a leak of his past tax records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaked returns from Trump\u2019s first term \u201cshowed I pay a lot of tax,\u201d he told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cI may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4576980\/trump-may-release-tax-returns-irs-settlement\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump \u2018may release\u2019 his tax returns after IRS settlement<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4577004\/trump-freeing-up-cuba-raul-castro-indictment\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump says \u2018we\u2019re freeing up Cuba\u2019 following Raul Castro indictment<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4576402\/trump-kura-sushi-stock\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump\u2019s multimillion dollar sushi bet sends Japanese chain\u2019s stock soaring<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump went on to say that the IRS was not allowed to leak his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-watchdog-agrees-to-investigate-status-of-tax-cheaters-working-for-irs\/\" title=\"Treasury Watchdog Agrees to Investigate Status of ... Cheaters Working for ...\">confidential tax returns<\/a>, which were placed in \u201clock boxes,\u201d and release them to the \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditionally, presidents have publicly released their tax returns ever since the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/watergate\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3097\">Watergate<\/a> scandal plagued then-President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/richard-nixon\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1610\">Richard Nixon<\/a> in 1972. That changed once Trump entered office in 2017. He refused to release his tax returns voluntarily at the time, which led to the leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton, committed the largest-known data breach in the agency\u2019s history by sharing the tax returns of Trump, his two oldest sons, and their family business with the news media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Littlejohn was later sentenced to five years in prison for the unauthorized disclosure of tax information to news organizations, including the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4572410\/trump-moves-drop-irs-lawsuit-doj-weaponization-victims-fund\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4572410\/trump-moves-drop-irs-lawsuit-doj-weaponization-victims-fund\/\">moved to drop<\/a> his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS after trying to hold the agency accountable for the leak. The decision came ahead of a court hearing in which the federal judge would have considered dismissing the case on the grounds that Trump oversees the IRS, posing what conservative lawyer Edward Whelan called a \u201cglaring conflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the lawsuit was dropped, the IRS agreed to a settlement that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4572715\/doj-announces-anti-weaponization-fund-biden-lawfare\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4572715\/doj-announces-anti-weaponization-fund-biden-lawfare\/\">includes the creation<\/a> of a nearly $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund that would compensate people who claim to be victims of lawfare under the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"445\">Biden administration<\/a>. Many Democrats see the fund as benefiting Trump\u2019s allies, but the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"339\">Trump administration<\/a> says no partisan criteria are considered when reviewing claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4576491\/michael-caputo-first-claim-trump-anti-weaponization-fund\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4576491\/michael-caputo-first-claim-trump-anti-weaponization-fund\/\">MICHAEL CAPUTO FILES FIRST CLAIM TO TRUMP\u2019S ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The settlement also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4575516\/trump-sons-exempt-tax-audits-irs\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4575516\/trump-sons-exempt-tax-audits-irs\/\">strictly bars<\/a> the federal government from investigating or prosecuting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization over their tax issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI released them from the lawsuit, and I guess they made a settlement of some kind,\u201d Trump said of the IRS, adding he \u201cwasn\u2019t involved\u201d in making the settlement. \u201cI could have been involved, but I didn\u2019t choose to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump may release current tax returns after IRS leak settlement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2605197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26140690015395.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[68251,41904,3634],"class_list":["post-2605196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-irs-settlement","tag-tax-returns","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26140690015395.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605200,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605196\/revisions\/2605200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}