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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took questions from Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI):

REED: How many taxpayers’ returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach?

BLANCHE: Excuse me?

REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct?

BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family.

REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy.

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