How a Beauty Pageant Solved Trump's Most Dangerous Lawsuit

The Miss Universe Pageant helped paved Donald’s way to the White House

Donald Trump has built a legend by clinching highly-creative deals, but did you know that he dodged perhaps the most potentially damaging lawsuit of his career by mollifying angry plaintiffs with, get ready for this, a big stake in a beauty contest? As far as this writer can tell, Trump’s gambit of trading a stake in the Miss Universe pageant for a pivotal legal settlement has never been reported in the press, though well establish in public documents. Yet the episode illustrates just how skillfully Trump deploys both imaginative stratagems, and relentless resistance, in giving those who sue him the absolute minimum, no matter what the merits of the case.

By the way, the Miss Universe franchise was a lot more famous than profitable, and it didn’t take Donald long to take back every share he’d briefly sacrificed.

In fact, repelling lawsuits is a core business practice for Trump, and he’s darn proud of it. “I don’t get sued because I don’t settle cases, I win in court,” Trump asserted during an MSNBC interview in early March, when questioned about whether he’d consider resolving a pending lawsuits over now-defunct, self-named real estate academy, Trump University.

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