Donald Trump declared victory in the bitter court battle with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Friday, calling out the state’s top lawman on Twitter as a “lightweight” who “just got his ass kicked.”
But a Manhattan Supreme Court judge’s ruling in the AG’s $40 million fraud suit against Trump for allegedly ripping off students at a scam real-estate school handed Trump only a partial win.
Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling tossed out claims against Trump that he broke education law by calling his “school” Trump University — even though it was not licensed with the state — because they were barred by a statute of limitations.
The unaccredited, for profit school changed its name to The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative after a state Education Department complaint in 2010.
The judge did agree to let Schneiderman continue his fight to block Trump from reopening the shuttered school.
She also allowed the AG to pursue fraud claims.
The AG accuses Trump of deceiving students who paid $35,000 into thinking they would be taught by real-estate experts handpicked by Trump, when not a single instructor had been.
Schneiderman, through a spokesman, took a shot at Trump: “No one, no matter how rich or popular they are, has a right to scam working families.”