Plaintiff in Chief
A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
A comprehensive analysis of Donald Trump's legal history reveals his temperament, methods, character, and morality.
Unlike all previous presidents who held distinguished positions in government or the military prior to entering office, Donald Trump's political worldview was molded in the courtroom. He sees law not as a system of rules to be obeyed and ethical ideals to be respected, but as a weapon to be used against his adversaries or a hurdle to be sidestepped when it gets in his way. He has weaponized the justice system throughout his career, and he has continued to use these backhanded tactics as Plaintiff in Chief.
In this book, distinguished New York attorney James D. Zirin presents Trump's lengthy litigation history as an indication of his character and morality, and his findings are chilling: if you partner with Donald Trump, you will probably wind up litigating with him. If you enroll in his university or buy one of his apartments, chances are you will want your money back. If you are a woman and you get too close to him, you may need to watch your back. If you try to sue him, he's likely to defame you. If you make a deal with him, you had better get it in writing. If you are a lawyer, an architect, or even his dentist, you'd better get paid up front. If you venture an opinion that publicly criticizes him, you may be sued for libel.
A window into the president's dark legal history, Plaintiff in Chief is as informative as it is disturbing.
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Zirin (Supremely Partisan), a former assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York, examines in critical detail a host of President Donald Trump's entanglements in the civil justice system. Zirin begins with a 1973 case brought by the federal government against Trump and his father for housing discrimination, during which Trump began his relationship with the infamous attorney Roy Cohn, from whom, Zirin contends, Trump learned his slash-and-burn legal tactics. Other cases include his being sued by undocumented people who had worked on a project for him, in which he denied knowledge of their legal status in order to avoid payments to pension funds (the judge deemed his claims "unworthy of belief"); threats of litigation to intimidate Rolling Stone and the Onion; a class action brought by those enrolled in his Trump University; and a defamation suit Trump brought against a New York Times journalist, during which he lied 30 times in one deposition and lost. Most of the critiques Zirin raises have been previously reported, and the effect of putting together all of these lawsuits can be both overwhelming and repetitive. This may not be a fun reading experience, but it's a well-constructed documentation of Trump's legal misdeeds.