Here, have a look at a long and still not exhaustive list of all the people and organizations that have sued Donald Trump.
The tycoon has launched—or lent his name to—a slew of business ventures that have yielded frustrated customers and investors who have sought legal recourse. There are hundreds of lawsuits extending over 43 years that name Trump or one of his businesses.
Many of them are very familiar, at this point. The Department of Justice had to sue Trump Management for violating the Fair Housing Act in the company's overt attempts to exclude black tenants from their buildings. There was the mistreatment of undocumented Polish workers on one of Trump's Manhattan projects. And the multiple times property owners who have bought into a Trump-branded property have ended up in suits charging that they were intentionally misinformed about what they were buying into. Oh, and that isn't a list of all the times Donald Trump has threatened to sue other people, because there's not enough space on the internets for that.
You might not have heard this part, though. Remember when Trump descended his Escalator of Golden Triumph in order to give a speech calling immigrants rapists and drug dealers, and that resulted in an avalanche of Trump business partners nixing their relationships with him because they didn't want to be associated with such things? Apparently Trump's business people knew from the outset that it was a fiasco, and had a rather urgent-sounding request:
After an email from Andrés' company said the company was getting blow-back over Trump's statements on immigrants, a Trump Organization vice president sent an email to Ivanka Trump. "Ugh," the vice president wrote. "This is not surprising and would expect that this will not be the last that we hear of it. At least for formal, prepared speeches, can someone vet going forward? Hopefully the Latino community does not organize against us more broadly in DC/across Trump properties."
Can someone vet going forward is a pretty damn good bumper-sticker slogan for the campaign, but as we've all seen since, the answer is no. No, nobody has been vetting Dear Leader's statements in all the many months since. Won't be done. Can't be done. Can't do a thing about it.
It’s a good bet that vice president is probably neck-deep in bourbon by now.