President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday to attack New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood after she sued him, his children, and the Trump Foundation.
Underwood asserted in the suit, among other things, that the foundation “was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality.”
The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018
….Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018
The suit centers on a “pattern of illegal conduct by the Foundation and its board members includ[ing] improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.”
Trump attacks the former NY AG, but not the current one, who brought the suit.
This is big, and could be his undoing—especially if he acts like this throughout the case.
You can whine and screech and bray about this all you want, you can talk about Clinton and whatever other distractions you want, but the legal wheels just keep turning, pal. You never seemed to realize that. So take it to trial, you two-bit chiseler. Let everyone see what a crook you are. There’s a few persuadable Republicans out there yet. Help them peel themselves away. Fight your loser jealous enemies! Never show weakness.
You do that. Follow those instincts. I’m sure that’s the right thing.
This steals a bit of thunder and press coverage of the DOJ IG report. And Trump further muffles it by his rantings. Good times.
Bringing the number of cases he didn’t settle – before he settled them – to 13.
This is also the same guy who did this:
Now that, following Trumpian logic, we are apparently once more the subjects of Her Majesty, I want the government dissolved, followed by a snap election.