announced that he would shut down DACA?

DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was a program created by President Obama that allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation. It also allowed those people to become eligible for a work permit if they had no felonies or only minor misdemeanors on their record. It included some 700,000 people.

In September of 2017, Trump’s administration announced that it would shut down the program.

Trump put the onus on Congress to decide whether or not to create a permanent version through legislation.

Congress failed to pass any legislation on the issue, but the phase-out of DACA was held up in courts, and is to be taken up by the US Supreme Court in 2020. Trump also later blamed Democrats for DACA’s demise.

The New York Times – Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act
NPR – Trump Ends DACA, Calls On Congress To Act
Wikipedia – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

said he didn’t care if sexual assault accusations about his SCOTUS pick were true?

Trump made the remark during a 60 Minutes interview after his SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed.

STAHL: Do you think you treated her with respect?

TRUMP: I think so, yeah, I did.

STAHL: But you seem to be saying that she lied.

TRUMP: I’m not going to get into it, because we won. It doesn’t matter. We won.

Trump was referencing the allegations that Dr. Christine Ford’s levied against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She said that a drunk Kavanaugh held her down on a bed grinding and groping her, pulled off her clothes, and covered her mouth when as she tried to scream. Ford, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, also provided polygraph exam results regarding her allegations.

Trump had repeatedly dismissed Dr. Ford’s allegations.

The Wall Street Journal – Trump: Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford “Doesn’t Matter. We Won.” 
The Week – Trump says that if Christine Ford’s sexual assault allegations were ‘as bad as she says,’ she should have reported it immediately
Wikipedia – Christine Balsey Ford, Sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh

said that a Mexican-American judge could not be fair in ruling on the border wall?

Trump made the claim that because Judge Gonzalo Curiel is Mexican-American, he was unfair in his past rulings against Trump University, and had a conflict of interest in his upcoming decision on the legality of the border wall. The Indiana-born judge ultimately ruled in favor of the wall’s legality.

The Wall Street Journal – Trump Says Judge’s Mexican Heritage Presents ‘Absolute Conflict’
The Hill – Mexican-American judge who Trump attacked rules in favor of border wall
Politifact – Donald Trump’s racial comments about Hispanic judge in Trump University case

shut down Trump University and settled lawsuits for $25 million?

The for-profit real estate training program was founded in 2005 and ran for 5 years before being investigated for illegal business practices and defrauding its students. Amid two federal class-action lawsuits and one filed in new York state court, it was shut down in 2011.

Trump University held no accreditation, and used high-pressure sales tactics to sell seminars to its “students.” It’s Gold Elite package was priced at $35,000.

Dan Herrick/KPA/Zuma Press

Trump settled immediately after the 2016 election for $25 million, despite having said he never would. In that suit, he blamed court decisions on the judge, claiming bias due to the judge’s Hispanic ethnicity.

 

Politico – Trump moves to settle Trump University cases for $25 million
USA Today – Judge finalizes $25 million Trump University settlement for students of ‘sham university’
The New Yorker – Trump University: It’s Worse Than You Think
Wikipedia – Trump University

hired undocumented workers, leading to a $1.4 million settlement?

In 1998, Trump settled a class-action lawsuit for $1.4 million for 1980 labor law violations. He had hired undocumented Polish immigrants to work 12 hour shifts without gloves, hard hats or masks, for as little as $4 an hour. They had been tasked with demolishing and clearing the site that Trump Tower now sits at in Manhattan.

The details of the settlement had long been sealed until a US District Court judge for the Southern District of New York found unsealed them in 2017, believing it be pertinent to the public’s interest as Trump had taken office.

Time – Donald Trump Paid $1.4 Million in a Dispute Over Undocumented Workers. Read the Newly Unsealed Legal Papers
The Independent – Donald Trump paid $1.375 million to settle case involving undocumented Polish workers, reveal documents
The New York Times – Trump Paid Over $1 Million in Labor Settlement, Documents Reveal

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