2017 Jan 8^th

Donald Trump cannot be sued for actions he takes while President of the United States. However, he can be sued, and indeed is being sued, for actions he has taken to date. He paid 25 million dollars to settle a suit against him for his fraudulent behavior in the Trump University case. Naturally, he admitted no wrongdoing. He just wanted to get that issue behind him. ( We not that his current favorite person, Kellyanne Conway, when previously employed by Senator Ted Cruz, ragged Trump unmercifully about the Trump University swindle. Like all good political employees, Kellyanne’s allegiance is available to the highest bidder.)

Now comes the issue of his charitable trust whose primary beneficiary has been Donald Trump. He wants to dissolve this trust but the New York state attorney general will not allow that because the investigation of the trust’s activities is ongoing and could lead to legal action against Trump.

Trump believes that his new Washington D.C. hotel is paying entirely too much in taxes. This is not a new thing with Donald Trump. He has, at this moment, about 100 legal challenges against the taxes he has been assessed on his various properties.

He has crowed about bringing the renovation of the D.C. hotel in ahead of schedule and under budget. Companies responsible for plumbing, electrical work, baseboards and crown molding in the 263-room hotel filed liens during the closing months of 2016 claiming they had not been paid more than $5 million dollars they were owed for the work. If you want to bring in a job under budget that’s a great way to accomplish it...just don’t pay the contractors.

Then over on the petulant front we have Trump most upset the Kellyanne Conway didn’t get the full 10minutes she was scheduled for on “Meet the Press” this morning. This slight of one of his minions required a tweet about the unfair mainstream media. Here is the President–elect’s tweet:

✔@realDonaldTrump

Kellyanne Conway went to @MeetThePress this morning for an interview with @chucktodd. Dishonest media cut out 9 of her 10 minutes. Terrible!

11:46 AM - 8 Jan 2017

Trump will be President in 12 days and this is what he thinks is important enough on which to spend his time. Wish us all good luck; we will sure need it.