DENY DISTRACT DELAY
Sep 30, 2022
3 minutes
BY BRIAN BENNETT
The Brief is reported by Solcyre Burga, Leslie Dickstein, Mariah Espada, Tara Law, Sanya Mansoor, Simmone Shah, and Julia Zorthian
Nearly 50 years ago, Donald Trump learned the legal strategy that would repeatedly get him out of tight legal jams.
It was 1973, and the Justice Department had just filed a civil rights lawsuit against Trump and his father Fred Trump. The complaint alleged that the Trumps and their company, which managed some 14,000 apartments in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten
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