Trump’s New Legal Trap: Trial Over Florida Golf Membership Fees
- West Palm Beach judge lets lawsuit go to trial in August
- Trump sees ruling as favorable with most claims tossed
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club Jupiter on March 8, 2016, in Jupiter, Florida.
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Donald J. Trump has another legal trap to negotiate while on his campaign for the White House: angry golfers testifying against him.
Trump’s already embroiled in legal fights on both coasts with former Trump University students complaining they were the victims of fraud and with celebrity chefs who pulled out of deals to open restaurants in his new Washington D.C. hotel. Now, a judge has ordered his company to go on trial next month in Florida over a dispute about unpaid golf membership refunds.