Nothing sticks to him. Nothing.
I suppose this ruling may very well be just. If they violated the contract, they violated the contract. But damn… will there ever be any accountability for this man?
The Trump Organization can continue to operate a city-owned golf course in the Bronx after a judge ruled on Friday that New York City had wrongly terminated the company’s contract following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in Washington.
New York City moved to cancel the lucrative contract at the course, the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, just days after the attacks on the Capitol last year, when a mob loyal to former President Donald J. Trump stormed the building in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
At the time, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the decision had been made because Mr. Trump had incited violence in Washington, which he said qualified as criminal activity that gave New York City the right to sever ties. (Mr. Trump was impeached on the grounds that he had incited the riot, his second impeachment, but he was acquitted by the Senate after he had left office.)
But the city’s lawyers used a different justification, saying that the Trump Organization had defaulted on its contractual obligation to maintain “a first class tournament quality daily fee golf course.”
The city, in a termination notice, said the golf course had failed to attract a major golf tournament and was unlikely to do so after the Capitol riot made the Trump brand “synonymous with an insurrection against the federal government.”
The Trump Organization sued the city last June, arguing that its only obligation wast to maintain the course, not to hold high-profile events. The city’s move, it said, was politically motivated and had no legitimate legal basis.
In her decision, Justice Debra James of the State Supreme Court did not weigh in on the political aspects of the case, nor did she mention what had happened at the Capitol. But she sided with the Trump Organization, ruling that the city had not given a valid legal reason for ending the contract.
A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, Amanda Miller, applauded the decision and again accused Mr. de Blasio of acting on political motivations.
“As we have said since the beginning, the city’s efforts to terminate our long-term license agreement to operate Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point Park were nothing more than a political vendetta,” Ms. Miller said in a statement. “This is not just a win for the Trump Organization; this is a win for justice, for the people of the City of New York, and for the hundreds of our hard-working employees at Ferry Point.”
Yeah, it’s a win for justice.
Get a load of this epic whine:
The only people who are allowed to investigate Trump and his cronies are people who love Trump.
I read that this morning and sighed heavily. Whatever happens in politics over the next few years, the one thing that will be a huge relief is when this miscreant is no longer part of it. He’s just so exhausting. And in my now long life, I’ve never experienced anything so profoundly disillusioning as the Trump phenomenon. The impunity under which he operates is like nothing I’ve ever seen and it seems clear that nothing in our system is equipped to deal with a man like him, especially now that he has millions of armed and angry followers.