2026年5月13日，美国东部时间下午4:06 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：宝拉·里德、阿莱娜·特里尼、凯西·甘农
更新于2026年5月13日，美国东部时间下午4:09
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2025年4月30日，在华盛顿特区白宫椭圆形办公室，唐纳德·特朗普总统在签署行政令期间发表讲话。
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据两名知情人士透露，美国司法部正在讨论是否在未来几天内就唐纳德·特朗普总统针对美国国税局提起的100亿美元诉讼达成和解。
这些人士透露，内部讨论的选项之一是，和解协议是否应包含美国国税局停止对总统及其家人以及家族企业进行审计的条款。
其中一名知情人士表示，该可能性只是诸多正在考虑的选项之一，尚未做出最终决定。目前尚不清楚和解是否会涉及金钱赔偿。如果涉及金钱赔偿，特朗普领导的司法部可能需要向总统本人支付款项，这将引发前所未有的伦理问题。
特朗普法律团队的一名发言人在给CNN的一份声明中表示：“国税局错误地允许一名叛逆、受政治动机驱使的雇员向《纽约时报》、ProPublica以及其他左翼新闻媒体泄露了关于特朗普总统、其家人以及特朗普集团的私人保密信息，随后这些信息被非法公布给数百万民众。特朗普总统将继续追究那些损害美国和美国民众的人的责任。”
CNN联系了国税局，后者请司法部置评。司法部拒绝置评。《纽约时报》最先报道了和解谈判中提出的这一潜在条款。
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特朗普于今年1月起诉美国国税局和财政部，要求至少10亿美元赔偿，指控其在其首届总统任期内未经授权泄露其纳税申报单。
该诉讼在佛罗里达州联邦法院提起。特朗普与其儿子小唐纳德·特朗普和埃里克·特朗普一同提起诉讼，此次诉讼是以个人身份提起，而非以总统的官方身份。
诉讼指控政府未能保护特朗普和特朗普集团的机密税务信息，这些信息被前国税局承包商查尔斯·利特尔约翰泄露给媒体。
诉讼称，曾在博思艾伦汉密尔顿公司担任政府承包商的利特尔约翰非法获取并向《纽约时报》和ProPublica等出版物披露了特朗普的纳税申报单。他随后被判处五年监禁。
此次外部和解谈判之际，该诉讼在法庭上得到了持怀疑态度的对待。
一名联邦法官上个月对特朗普诉讼的合宪性提出质疑，下令举行听证会，以确定总统是否可以起诉其监管的联邦机构。
佛罗里达州地区法官凯瑟琳·M·威廉姆斯表示，目前尚不清楚特朗普与这些机构之间是否“足够对立”，并下令双方提供更多关于双方关系的信息。
当时，作为奥巴马任命的法官的威廉姆斯说道：“尽管特朗普总统声称此次诉讼是以个人身份提起，但他仍是现任总统，而其指名的对手是那些决策受他指导的实体。”
一系列和解案例
美国司法部的和解谈判之际，该部门已经就特朗普盟友提起的其他诉讼达成了和解。
根据美国最高法院的一份文件，今年4月，司法部与前特朗普竞选顾问卡特·佩奇达成和解。佩奇起诉司法部和联邦调查局，称其因2016年与俄罗斯方面的联系而遭受了存在缺陷的政府监视。
今年3月，司法部与迈克尔·弗林达成和解，在弗林称其遭到不当起诉后，向其支付了超过100万美元。
弗林起诉政府索赔5000万美元，指控联邦调查局在特朗普政府初期试图诱捕他。
Justice Department considers settling Trump’s $10 billion IRS leak lawsuit
May 13, 2026, 4:06 PM ET / CNN
By Paula Reid, Alayna Treene, Casey Gannon
Updated May 13, 2026, 4:09 PM ET
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President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30 in Washington, DC.
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The Justice Department is discussing whether to settle President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in the coming days, according to two sources familiar.
Among the options being discussed internally is whether a settlement would include a provision on the IRS dropping audits of the president and members of his family, as well as audits of the family’s businesses, the people said.
One of the people familiar said that the possibility is one of many options under consideration, and that no firm decisions have been made. It remains unclear if a monetary settlement is being considered. If it is, it could result in the Trump Justice Department making a payment to the president himself — raising unprecedented ethical questions.
“The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information about President Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to the New York Times, ProPublica and other left-wing news outlets, which was then illegally released to millions of people,” a spokesman for Trump’s legal team told CNN in a statement. “President Trump continues to hold those who wrong America and Americans accountable.”
CNN reached out the IRS, which referred to the Justice Department for comment. The Justice Department declined to comment. The New York Times was first to report the potential term being floated in the settlement talks.
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Trump sued the US Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department in January for at least $10 billion, accusing the agency of an unauthorized leak of his tax returns during his first administration.
The suit was filed in federal court in Florida. Trump, who filed the suit alongside his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, is suing personally, not in his official capacity as president.
The lawsuit alleged that the government failed to protect Trump and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax information, which was leaked to the press by Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor.
Littlejohn, who worked as a government contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton, illegally obtained and disclosed Trump’s tax returns to publications like the New York Times and ProPublica, the suit alleged. He has since been sentenced to five years in prison.
The outside settlement talks come as the lawsuit has had a skeptical reception in court.
A federal judge last month questioned the constitutionality of Trump’s lawsuit, ordering a hearing to determine whether the president can sue federal agencies that he oversees.
Florida District Judge Kathleen M. Williams said it is unclear whether Trump and the agencies are “sufficiently adverse to each other” and ordered both sides to provide more information on the relationship.
“Although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction,” Williams, an Obama appointee, said at the time.
A series of settlements
The Justice Department’s settlement talks come as it has already settled other lawsuits brought by Trump allies.
In April, the Justice Department settled a lawsuit brought by former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who sued the DOJ and FBI over flawed government surveillance he faced due to his Russian contacts in 2016, according to a filing with the Supreme Court.
In March, it settled a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, awarding him over a million dollars following what he said was a wrongful prosecution.
Flynn sued the government for $50 million, alleging that the FBI tried to entrap him in the early days of the Trump administration.
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