Given the daily sh*tstorms engulfing swindling un- indicted co- conspirator Donald "Rump" Trump (a.k.a., President Spanky, a.k.a., Cadet Bone Spurs), this news is likely to go as unnoticed as the proverbial fart in a hurricane:
A federal judge finalized the $25 million settlement between President Trump and students of his now shuttered Trump University on Monday, with New York's attorney general claiming “victims of Donald Trump’s fraudulent university will finally receive the relief they deserve.”
The order from U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel — the same Indiana-born judge Trump called biased because of his "Mexican heritage" — comes a year after he first approved the settlement. It marks the end of two class-action lawsuits and a civil lawsuit from New York accusing Trump of "swindling thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars through Trump University," in the words of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. [snip]
Trump University was not an actual university but a for-profit seminar series, and former students waged a years-long battle claiming the course misled them with claims of teaching real estate success. The program ended in 2010. Some elderly plaintiffs who paid $20,000-plus in tuition died waiting to receive their checks from the settlement.
Trump had involvement in 3,500-plus lawsuits at the time of his election, an unprecedented volume for a presidential nominee. (our emphasis)Take another look at that last number -- 3,500- plus lawsuits. Can you think of any other business or person involved in 3,500- plus lawsuits? (In his capacity as "president*," Rump has 27 lawsuits pending against him already.) Whether it's his scams like Trump University, real estate battles, labor disputes, bum licensing deals, bankruptcies, stiffing contractors (including law firms), or sexual escapades coming back to bite him, Rump and his crew of cheap crooks are used to operating in an unethical penumbra that invites litigation. As with some of the marks from the Trump University scam, the Rump plan is to drag out the litigation until the plaintiffs' legal fees overwhelm them ... or they die.
It remains to be seen whether brazening out the current investigations by the Special Counsel and the Southern District of New York's attorneys emerges as Rump's main survival plan, given Justice Department guidelines against indicting or criminally prosecuting a sitting president, and the unlikely discovery of enough Republican spines in this or the next Congress to impeach/ convict the malignant tumor. He might just figure that, with the backing of enough dead- ender far- right Congress critters, plus low- to- mid- 30's poll numbers, and Fox "News" and the rest of the wingnut Wurlitzer spinning lies and distractions, he can survive to 2020.
