American Bridge President Jessica Mackler released the following statement on Donald Trump settling the Trump University fraud suits for $25 million this afternoon:

“Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe in settling cases “when [he’s] right.” Trump’s not “right” in the Trump University fraud suits and now, he’s paying for it. But this will not be the only legal battle we see during Trump’s presidency — he’s still involved in at least 75 other suits. It will likely not be the last conflict of interest for the Trump White House. American Bridge will continue to hold Trump accountable to make sure he isn’t using the presidency for his own gain.”

Background:

Trump University
2005: Trump Opened Trump University, A For-Profit Organization Offering Courses, Consulting Services, And Seminars

May 2005: Trump Announced Plans For Trump University, A ‘For-Profit University, Which Will Consist Of Online Courses, CD-ROMs, Consulting Services And Learning Annex-Type Seminars.‘ According to The Wall Street Journal, […]

Donald Trump has made his business career a cornerstone of his appeal to voters. Despite Trump’s bluster, scrutiny of his business practices reveal a malevolent man unconcerned with anything but lining his own pockets at the expense of working families, seniors, and anybody else he could try to con out of a buck.

Trump is a fraud who made his living preying on and defrauding unsuspecting customers, failing to pay employees and contractors, rooting for economic crises he could exploit for personal gain, and participating in a thinly disguised pyramid scheme. The list of Trump’s unethical business practices is truly astonishing:

Hundreds of former workers and contractors allege Trump didn’t pay his bills. Watch his victims speak out.

According to USA Today, Trump has been accused of failing to pay, “A dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of […]

Donald Trump, notorious litigant and presumptive Republican presidential nominee, routinely deleted business-related email correspondences. This practice became problematic in 2006 when litigants in a suit brought by Trump claimed that the erasure of emails equated to destruction of evidence.

The Judge in the case, Jeffrey Streitfeld, was incredulous. Writing in court transcripts obtained by USA Today he noted:

He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one. 

If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that’s not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.

Trump’s company’s decision not to preserve electronic records adds to a growing list of Trump’s questionable business practices. From Trump U’s targeting of single parents […]