Trump University

One of the bigger headaches hanging over Donald Trump as he enters the transition period of his presidency, was the ongoing litigation that his now defunct Trump University defrauded students. Well, no more. Moments ago, the president-elect agreed to settle fraud lawsuits relating to his Trump University series of real estate seminars for $25 million.

Trump settles despite tweeting in late February that he would not settle "out of principle" as the University has a 98% approval rating.

One month ago, Donald Trump raised eyebrows and in some cases, tempers, when the "anti-establishment" candidate announced that he had picked Goldman Sachs veteran, and former George Soros trader, Steven Mnuchin, as his finance chairman, who was supposed to help the New York mogul raise as much as $1 billion to fund his presidential campaign. However, it appears Mnuchin's fundraising services will not be as needed as initially thought.

Yesterday in a comments thread here, the reader Elrond wrote:

As always, what’s missing in these discussions is any acknowledgement of white interests. It’s all about the good for blacks and people of color. The good for white families doesn’t even enter the picture.

In case you don’t follow the comment threads, Elrond thinks that I am a total squish on racial issues. I post his comment here because it is an example of the Right using the Left’s identity politics against it.

Although the AP called the Democratic race for Hillary last night (stunningly on a day when nobody voted), and Trump secured the GOP nomination long ago, the show must go on so that those in the remaining states will have their opportunity to cast a vote.

Of course, Bernie Sanders will look for the upset in California this evening, and is hoping to convince enough superdelegates to support him at the convention in Philadelphia - Something the AP thought was out of the cards.

With Paul Ryan denouncing his comments and blowback from Republicans, some of whom dropped their endorsements, it appears Donald Trump has relented in his comments against Indiana-born federal judge Gonzalo Curiel that he might be biased against Trump because of his Mexican heritage, saying that his comments had been misconstrued by the media.

As The Hill reports, the presumptive GOP nominee made the assertion in a new statement Tuesday afternoon as he scrambles to contain blowback from Republicans.