Trump Tries Another Scam. What Else Is New?

Maybe he will, maybe he won’t. Either way, Trump’s handling of the New York State fraud case shows him to be about as ready to step back into the Oval Office as the man in the moon.

Trump had to know that the New York AG, Letitia James, had the goods on him because anyone with half a brain could figure out that because the valuations he placed on his properties to get bank loans were higher than the valuations he used to determine his property tax liability, that the whole thing was a scam.

Trump has a long history of ripping off his customers in very obvious ways and then pretending that he didn’t do anything wrong. So, for example, he created this totally phony program called Trump University, which promised people who enrolled that they would take courses that would teach them how to become rich.

In fact, the courses did nothing except jam a bunch of suckers into a hotel ballroom, which was referred to as the Trump University ‘campus,’ and ultimately Trump had to reimburse every student for a total of $25 million in order for the legal action against him to be settled out of court.

Now, you would think that someone who admitted to stealing millions of dollars in such an obvious, racketeering kind of way wouldn’t even imagine running for political office, never mind for the office of…