President-elect Trump tweets he could have won Trump University trial

After a day of back and forth with U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller in San Diego, and another day of negotiating with the NY attorney general regarding his lawsuit, a $25 million settlement was signed Friday.

Lawyers for the President-elect reached the out-of-court deal to avoid a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that, during his campaign, he had promised to keep fighting and never settle.

“Trump University can jump up and down all they want and say they did nothing wrong, but companies don’t give $25 million in a settlement if they haven’t done something”, said Gansler, who isn’t involved in the case.

Trump’s settlement comes across a bit ironic; Trump has said many times that he doesn’t settle cases.

An employee guide submitted as evidence in the lawsuit show that Trump University staff were encouraged to use high-pressure sales tactics on potential customers.

According to Trump, however, that he wasn’t able to go to trial and win the case is “the ONLY bad thing” about him becoming president.

A settlement may be near to resolve three fraud lawsuits filed against President-elect Donald Trump and his now-defunct Trump University real estate seminar business.

As reported by The New York Times, Trump agreed to the settlement on Friday, just 10 days before one of the cases, a federal class-action lawsuit, was scheduled to go to a jury. I dont believe in it. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman describes the agreement as a “stunning reversal” of Trump’s decision. I don’t do it because that’s why I don’t get sued very often, because I don’t settle, unlike a lot of other people.

The deal does not require Mr Trump to acknowledge wrongdoing.

Throughout the past week Mr Trump’s camp was beset by allegations his transition from President-elect to President was chaotic.

The settlement with Trump University appears to have fit a pattern where lawyers for Trump are working to lower the number of legal entanglements he has prior to him taking office.

Trump’s attorneys said in a court filing ahead of Friday’s hearing that preparations for the White House were “critical and all-consuming”.

“This allows us to maximize the recovery for the victims”, Jason Forge, one of the attorneys representing the victims, told the judge.

The settlement could be announced as earlier as Friday afternoon, when attorneys for Trump are scheduled to appear before federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel and argue that the trial should be pushed back until after the presidential inauguration due to the “critical and all-consuming” responsibilities now facing the president-elect. Later, he said the Indiana-born judge’s Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association posed a conflict with Trump’s positions on illegal immigration and his promise to build a wall on the Mexican border.

The agreement also spares Trump “the embarrassment of having to testify in a class action lawsuit in California that was supposed to begin the Monday after Thanksgiving”, the Daily News further noted. His attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, acknowledged Trump had previously vowed to fight the case.