Despite his ongoing campaign efforts, Donald Trump remains deeply engaged in legal battles, recently filing a $100 million lawsuit against the Justice Department. This move is characteristic of his approach to legal disputes, a tactic he has used before with notable persistence. Trump has long been a critic of both the Justice Department and the FBI, a sentiment that dates back decades.
In 1973, Trump and his father faced charges from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for Fair Housing Act violations involving racial discrimination at several properties. Trump, guided by lawyer Roy Cohn, employed strategies to keep the government on the defensive, including claims of “Gestapo-like” tactics against the FBI. Despite overwhelming evidence of discrimination, Trump opted to fight rather than settle, a pattern that seems to repeat in his current legal strategies.
Now, Trump is challenging the Justice Department over the search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, seeking $100 million in damages. His legal team argues that the search, which was upheld by the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, was an abuse of process. However, experts, including Harvard Law Professor Larry Tribe, dismiss the lawsuit as frivolous and unlikely to succeed, viewing it as another instance of Trump’s tendency to use legal maneuvers to create distractions and prolong conflicts.
