New York State Goes After Trump — Again!

If anyone who enjoyed the news about Donald Trump getting slapped with a big lawsuit by the New York AG Letitia James thinks this legal action will cause Trump all kinds of pain, you might want to rethink that one again. Or better yet, let’s take a minute and look back at two other attempts by New York State to go after Trump for conducting his business affairs in a fraudulent way, and you’ll quickly realize that he’s been through this kind of thing again and again and it didn’t really hurt him at all.

Let’s start with Trump University which started doing business in 2005 with a curriculum which offered students a chance to learn the ways in which Trump had made himself very rich. This scam lasted five years and was shut down by New York State because basically it was nothing more than a quick way for Trump to make a buck by getting a bunch of suckers to pony up a few thousand bucks to sit in some overheated hotel room and listen to someone explain how they could earn a gazillion dollars in real estate.

Some of the students then went after Trump in a federal class action lawsuit which Trump settled around the time he announced his Presidential campaign. Of course, he then bragged that he had ‘never lost’ a lawsuit.

Then there was Trump’s so-called non-profit foundation, which operated for ten years until Trump agreed to…