From Wikipedia…“ From the 1970s until he was elected president in 2016, Donald John Trump Sr. and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in U.S. federal and state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes.[1] He has also been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault,[2][3] with one accusation resulting in Trump being held civilly liable.[4]
In 2015, his lawyer Alan Garten called this "a natural part of doing business" in the United States.[5][6] While litigation is indeed common in the real estate industry,[5] Trump has been involved in more legal cases than his fellow magnates Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., Donald Bren, Stephen M. Ross, Sam Zell, and Larry Silverstein combined.[7]”
Trump having lots of legal issues is nothing new.
Being sued in a lawsuit is not the same thing as being guilty of anything.
Bill O'Reilly said on the air about 15 years ago that if you're wealthy, people are going to sue you, to try and get money from you, and wealthy people need to have lawyers for that reason alone.
And in Trump's case, he has a gigantic company worth (in 2016) an estimated 4 to 5 billion dollars. So yeah, people are going to come after him. And New York City in particular is one of the most legally difficult places to build a construction project.
You will note that Trump's legal issues exploded and multiplied at exactly the time he won the primaries and became the Republican candidate in mid 2016. We've been over the cases before, they were clearly done to smear him and try to destroy his candidacy.
