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Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump

Affairs of President of the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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From 1973 and until he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in United States federal and state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes. He has also been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault, with one accusation resulting in him being held civilly liable.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Personal, business and legal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as affairs of President of the United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.