Yet another lie exposed

[PJMcK]

Donald Trump fancies himself a great dealmaker. There is scant evidence of this ability in his history. Certainly, he has made a lot of "deals" but he's been involved in an unbelievable number of lawsuits. Reports have indicated that Mr. Trump has been on one side or the other of some 3,500 legal actions. If you do the simple arithmetic, for the past several decades, he's either sued or been sued every three or four days!

Great deals do not end with legal actions. One adage holds that a good deal is one where neither side is completely happy; but it's also important to recognize that good deals don't end up with acrimonious legal actions. Mr. Trump is NOT a great dealmaker and, in fact, anyone who has paid attention to his publicly-led life and then gone into a business relationship with him should have considered the age-old warning: caveat emptor: buyer beware.

Now, we have another example of Mr. Trump's many lies. This "great dealmaker" has repeatedly stated that he never, ever settles any of the mountain of his lawsuits. This is a lie:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/politics/trumps-company-settles-lawsuit-with-a-second-celebrity-chef.html?ref=politics

During one campaign appearance in 2016, he said this about any litigation:

“I don’t settle lawsuits,” Trump later explained to an Arkansas crowd after his primary opponents began using Trump University as evidence that the real estate developer and reality television star was simply a con man. “Probably should have settled it, but I just can’t do that. Mentally I can’t do it. I’d rather spend a lot more money and fight it.”

In the end, I cannot understand any vendor, contractor or worker-- other than a lawyer-- who would work with the Trump Organization. No one needs work so badly that they'd work with a consistently bad business partner. It will never be worth it.