The president filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Miami against the IRS and the Treasury Department, accusing them of being culpable after an IRS contractor leaked tax documents Trump had fought to keep private for years.

President Donald Trump sued the federal government on Thursday for $10 billion in alleged damages over an Internal Revenue Service employee's leak of his tax returns to news outlets during his first administration.

President Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department for at least $10 billion, claiming the agencies unlawfully allowed an IRS contractor to leak his tax returns and those of his sons and company.

The lawsuit seeks $10bn (£7.25bn) in damages after tax information from Trump and his family was leaked to the media.

President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets. The suit,

The president argued in the lawsuit that the agencies failed to prevent a former contractor from leaking his tax returns from nearly a decade ago to news outlets.

Donald Trump and his family have sued the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury department for at least $10bn over the leak of tax returns, in a move that pits the US president against his own government.

President Trump, his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion on Thursday over allegedly leaking tax returns containing "confidential, personal information.