Posted on 02/26/2016 7:43:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
With GOP nomination looming, Trump is slated to take witness stand in fraud trial
"Here's a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed: This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He's due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud.
In court filings last Friday, lawyers for both sides in a long-running civil lawsuit over the now defunct Trump University named Trump on their witness lists. That makes it all but certain that the reality-show star and international businessman will be forced to be grilled under oath over allegations in the lawsuit that he engaged in deceptive trade practices and scammed thousands of students who enrolled in his "university" courses in response to promises he would make them rich in the real estate market.
Although the case has been winding its way through the courts for the past five years - and Trump has denied all wrongdoing - the final pretrial conference is now slated for May 6, according to the latest pleadings in the case. No trial date has been set, but the judge has indicated his interest in moving the case forward, the pleadings show.
"This is pretty amazing," said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican Party consultant, about Trump's upcoming due date in federal court. "Usually, you clean this stuff up before you run for president."............................
Trump is accused of financially threatening woman during secret deposition
........."Trump has made little secret of his inclination to strike back hard - on the campaign trail and in the courts - against anybody who opposes him. But the secret deposition in the San Diego case calls attention to the danger that a Trump presidency could turn into what one lawyer who has sued Trump called a "litigation circus" in which a sitting president would be forced to submit to multiple depositions and even jury trials as a result of ongoing civil lawsuits.
Little noticed while he has emerged as the Republican frontrunner for president, Trump remains mired in litigation on multiple fronts. In addition to defending the Trump University suits, he has initiated legal action in the past year against restaurateurs and the Univision network after they pulled out of business deals over his comments about Mexican immigrants. He has also recently threatened to sue rival Ted Cruz on the grounds that he is not eligible to be president because he was born in Canada. At a CNN forum Thursday night, in response to a question about his propensity to threaten opponents with lawsuits, Trump replied, in part, "I have wonderful lawyers. I like to send letters."
Just last week - three days before Makaeff made her court filing - a judge in Washington, D.C., overruled the objections of Trump's lawyers and ordered him to submit to a deposition in a suit he filed against one of the restaurateurs.
As Yahoo News noted in August, none of these cases would go away were Trump elected president. In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that presidents are not immune from civil litigation while in office, rejecting Bill Clinton's claim that he should not be subjected to a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones."
Abbott is just upset because he was denied admission.
Guilty before proven innocent. Must be A new kind of justice.
This isn’t funny.
“They RUINED my credit!!!” wrote Krassin Andreev of Pearland”
They did. ROTFLMAO!!!!
That you post this stuff day after day after day & Trump keeps winning & winning is righteously hilarious :)
Just wait - the Dems are going to get into the WH if Trump is the nominee.
[Abbott is just upset because he was denied admission.]
Maybe Trump University was not handicapped accessible...
“This isn’t funny.”
Of course it is. What makes it even more hilarious is that it’s your thread. AGAIN!
The Great Conservative as now SWERVED to support the 8Gang Cabana Boy.
Cruz is now the Great Conswervative.
It’s the new issue of our time!
Nevermind American’s concerns about security, immigration, and the economy.
These guys see Trump U. as what the people care about! Freaking slow news day AM talk radio level crap.
And then when they look and see that people DO NOT CARE, then they get together and bitch like babies calling them “stupid” and “drinking the kool-aid”.
I guess that says more about you than it does about me.
Mommy, grandma CW is going bats^&^ crazy again while on the computer. Why does she have that bottle of wild turkey and a straight razor next to her?
I sincerely and truly hope you never utter one word or support for D. Trump. Your track record is 100%
Seems like Trump was running something similar to the “Player’s club” scheme that Telly Savalas was the face of back in the 80’s and 90’s. That scam was all over Atlantic City, I think I went to that seminar once in the Trump casino.
Trump University was a classic “bait and switch” con. At the end of an expenditure of up to 34,000 dollars, the student ended up with no useable additional knowledge except possibly how to avoid a fraud in advance. If this doesn’t give a Trumpett pause for concern about their candidate, nothing will.
I’ve been cautioning about this fraud for a long time but apparently to no avail.
That’s no argument.
The other candidates are NOT ignoring the other issues.
How you can promote this man is beyond comprehension.
The Dems will have a field day with “Trump University”
LOL!!! Is that the best you can do?
Of course it is.
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