When Trump wasn’t suing, he was threatening to sue. I received a nasty warning letter myself from a Trump lawyer in 2011 over a column describing the financial distress of condo buyers who had lost their money in the failed Trump International condo-hotel project on Fort Lauderdale Beach. They had assumed, as one might, that given the Trump name and the Trump brochures full of Trump photos and Trump assurances, that they were buying into an actual Trump property. Nope. They learned too late that they had put their savings into a Trump ruse. The project went broke in 2009 and the buyers discovered that Trump had only leased his name to a consortium led by Felix Sater, a mobbed-up Russian-born businessman who had been convicted in a $40 million stock manipulation scheme in 1998. (And, before that, for stabbing a stockbroker in the face with a broken margarita glass during a bar fight.)