The two former “Apprentice” contestants probably should have known this was not going to end well.
Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss had each heard “You’re fired” from Donald Trump during Season 2 of “The Apprentice,” and they could have left it at that. But they decided to try to get back into business with Trump, anyway.
Litinsky and Moss’s lawsuit now threatens Trump’s much-needed payday.
Years later, after Trump The Reality Host had become a twice-impeached former president under investigation for attempting to subvert democracy, Litinsky and Moss decided to go into business with their former boss. With Trump, they formed a company called United Atlantic Ventures and helped him build Truth Social, his off-brand alternative to Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps more than anything else, it was a business born from necessity: After all, both Twitter and Facebook had kicked Trump off their platforms.
Last week, we got reporting that Litinsky and Moss are now suing Donald Trump. They claim Trump is essentially trying to cheat them out of their share of the company, just as it’s about to go public and potentially net Trump billions of dollars — if he can sell his shares. And Litinsky and Moss’s lawsuit now threatens Trump’s much-needed payday. He’s a man who is on the hook for more than half a billion dollars in judgments from both civil fraud and defamation lawsuits.
Trump is appealing those judgments, but while the case makes its way through the appellate process, he is supposed to pay the amounts awarded to the plaintiffs.
That doesn’t mean he will.
This week, Trump tried to get a federal court in New York to delay enforcing the $83 million he owes after losing a defamation case filed against him by writer E. Jean Carroll. On Thursday, Carroll’s attorneys argued that Trump should be forced to pay, saying he had offered no explanation as to why he can’t pay and no guarantee that he one day will. “He simply asks the Court to ‘trust me’…
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