{"id":39406,"date":"2016-06-04T06:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T10:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39406"},"modified":"2016-06-04T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T10:20:32","slug":"as-judge-unseals-trump-university-docs-bombshell-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39406","title":{"rendered":"As judge unseals Trump University docs, BOMBSHELL revealed\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Written by Michelle Jesse<br \/>\nallenbwest.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/536039042-300x180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39410 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/536039042-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"536039042-300x180\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Even as a federal judge rules against Donald Trump and today <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/281763-judge-unseals-documents-on-trump-university\">unsealed hundreds of documents<\/a> related to the lawsuit against Trump University, a new bombshell in the case has just been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, one of the two\u00a0law firms representing plaintiffs in this case against Trump \u2014 coincidentally, appointed by the judge overseeing the case whom Trump has (it appears rightly) accused of being \u201chater\u201d\u00a0and \u201cvery hostile\u201d \u2014\u00a0have some ties to Hillary and Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>As in half a million dollars worth of ties.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/trump-university-plaintiff-law-firm-paid-clintons-450000-for-speeches\/\">The American Spectator<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lawnewz.com\/high-profile\/guess-who-else-paid-out-big-bucks-for-clinton-speeches\/\">It comes to light from\u00a0LawNewz<\/a>\u00a0that the law firm Robbins Geller appointed by Judge Gonzalo Curiel to represent a plaintiff in the Trump University class action suits has another connection to Hillary Clinton beyond a $2700 campaign contribution from firm chairman Darren Robbins.\u00a0LawNewz did\u00a0not mention the firm\u2019s connection to the Trump University case. The information was apparently retrieved from a\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0data base with the Clinton financial filings on file. (The\u00a0Post\u00a0itself has not reported on this connection.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It seems that Robbins Geller \u201cpaid the Clintons nearly half a million dollars in less than a year.\u201d Why? Speeches of course.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s right. One of the law firms picked by the Judge in the Trump University case \u2014 the very Judge Donald Trump accuses by name of anti-Trump bias \u2014 awarded this firm the case after \u2014 say again after \u2014 Hillary and Bill Clinton had been paid a cool $450,000 for two speeches by the firm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While one might have expected this connection to Trump\u2019s presumed rival in the campaign to be called out as a potential conflict of interest, amazingly, this hasn\u2019t happened \u2014 either in the courtroom or in the press.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, this isn\u2019t the only connection in the case against Trump University that would raise eyebrows, at the very least, or lead one to wonder if this isn\u2019t just a big charade \u2014 witch hunt \u2014 aimed at trashing the presumed GOP nominee.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/rigged-the-trial-of-trump-university\/\">The American Spectator<\/a> reports, several other key players in the lawsuit have some interesting ties to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The judge Gonzalo Curiel himself,\u00a0whose Hispanic heritage Trump has called out, is an Obama appointee and has been honored by\u00a0\u201chis leadership and support\u201d to the\u00a0San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, whose\u00a0purpose is to advance the cause of equality, empowerment and justice for, not all attorneys of any race, but specifically Latino attorneys and the Latino community in San Diego County.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll let you draw your own conclusions there about the judge\u2019s involvement with the\u00a0organization who uses \u201cLa Raza\u201d \u2014 \u201cThe Race\u201d in its title. (Still don\u2019t understand how it\u2019s OK for Latinos to do it but would be a career-ending controversy for a Caucasian to be involved in such an organization.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the senior partner in the other law firm Judge Curiel selected to represent the case against Trump \u2014 Zeldes Haeggquist &amp; Eck LLP \u2014 was a multiple-time contributor to Barack Obama and\u00a0also a one-time donor in 2004 to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/move.on.org\/\">MoveOn.org<\/a>. Of course,\u00a0MoveOn\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/susan-jones\/after-encouraging-disruption-trump-rally-moveonorg-now-raising-funds\">has this to say<\/a>\u00a0about Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For as long as Donald Trump is a presidential candidate, MoveOn members will continue to call out and nonviolently protest his racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic, and violent behavior\u2026 Trump and those who peddle hate and incite violence have no place in our politics and most certainly do not belong in the White House.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And\u00a0then there\u2019s\u00a0New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who\u00a0filed a $40 million law suit against Trump University in 2013 charging fraud \u2014 but only after repeated campaign solicitations to Trump family members and business associates. As\u00a0American Spectator writes \u2014 and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/56339_shakedown-schneiderman\/\">detailed here<\/a>\u00a0three years ago \u2014 Attorney General Schneiderman\u2019s solicitations were along the lines of <em>\u201cthe Mafia Don who stops by to say \u201cya gotta nice little business going here, ya wouldn\u2019t want anything to happen to it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, Attorney General\u00a0Eric Schneiderman has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.<\/p>\n<p>The Spectator sums it all up well:<\/p>\n<p><em>What we have here is the case against Trump University being so riven with political conflicts of interest that it is clear Trump is not a defendant but the subject of a political witch hunt. A witch hunt fueled by everything from identity politics to campaign contributions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To borrow a much used phrase from this election cycle? The case against Trump University appears to have been rigged right from the get-go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shocker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, since the media won\u2019t be getting word of this out, it\u2019s up to us \u2014 and y\u2019all!<\/p>\n<p>[Note: This article was written by Michelle Jesse, Associate Editor]<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenbwest.com\/michellejesse\/as-judge-unseals-trump-university-docs-bombshell-revealed\">http:\/\/www.allenbwest.com\/michellejesse\/as-judge-unseals-trump-university-docs-bombshell-revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}