The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston

Author:David Cay Johnston [Johnston, David Cay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-61219-633-6
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2016-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

While no one involved felt anything was wrong in Florida, Trump had a very different view of what happened in a federal court case in California, where people sued him and Trump University as a fraud.

His answers to lawyer Jensen’s questions were made public at the request of numerous news organizations. Those requests were filed with Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge overseeing two of the fraud cases in San Diego. The day that Judge Curiel made the testimony available, Trump went on the attack.

“I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater … he is not doing the right thing,” Trump said, inadvertently sparking a debate over whether he would respect the independence of the judiciary as president. Trump made no mention of the judge’s decision to make some of the material in the fraud case public, a dot that many news reports did not connect. Trump instead suggested an investigation of “the judge, who happens to be Mexican.” Judge Curiel, a former federal prosecutor, was born in Indiana and graduated from law school there.

The next day, Trump continued his attack on the judge’s heritage. “I’m building the wall, I’m building the wall,” Trump said of his proposed barrier between the United States and Mexico. “I have a Mexican judge. He’s of Mexican heritage. He should have recused himself, not only for that, for other things.”

The comments prompted the National Review, an influential conservative political magazine that opposes Trump, to mock him: “It turns out that Donald Trump’s legal philosophy, such as it is, is like his philosophy of everything else: Donald Trump likes judges who like Donald Trump.”

As of July 2016, Trump has sought to keep the public from seeing the rest of the court record requested by news organizations, especially the video of lawyer Jensen questioning him under oath. Simultaneously, he derides the fraud allegations as nonsense and declares that he was winning in all three court cases. Yet he fears the video of his deposition. Trump’s lawyers have argued that releasing the video of his testimony “serves no legitimate purpose in the litigation and will only taint” future jurors should the case go to trial. Release of the video would cause “extreme prejudice” that will “imperil” Trump’s right to a fair civil trial. “This Court should not let the judicial process be abused in this way.”

Meanwhile, Trump was embroiled in new problems he’d created for himself and his foundation, problems that put a number of charities helping military veterans at risk of losing their tax-exempt status.

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