Donald Trump slammed the attorney general for suing him over Trump University. Trump: New York AG 'political hack'

Donald Trump slammed New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday for suing him over Trump University.

“He sits up in my office asking me for campaign contributions; he’s been there numerous times. He’s a political hack. He figures by going after Trump, he can get some publicity, which he will get, but we’ll try and make it uncomfortable as possible,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”


On Saturday, Schneiderman sued Trump for $40 million, saying the real estate mogul helped run a deceptive Trump University that promised to make students rich but was instead just expensive and useless seminars.

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Trump said the lawsuit was filed Saturday after Schneiderman met with President Barack Obama on Thursday evening.

“They meet on Thursday evening. I get sued by this A.G. Schneiderman, I get sued on Saturday at 1 o’clock. Think of it. What government agency in the history of this country has ever brought a suit on a Saturday? I never heard of such a thing,” Trump said.

Trump called the lawsuit, “incompetent” and “terribly drawn” and suggested this could be another scandal for the administration.

“They obviously did it very quickly, but probably Obama — maybe this is a mini IRS. Maybe we have to get the tea party after these people because this could very well be a mini IRS,” Trump said.

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Schneiderman hit back during an appearance on CNN Monday morning, saying that while he did meet with Obama on Thursday, they never discussed Trump.

“The president and I had much more important stuff to talk about than Donald Trump. [The president] was giving a speech about education in Syracuse about affordability. I’ve never discussed Donald Trump with the president,” Schneiderman said.

Schneiderman said the lawsuit is part of a larger effort targeting deceptive for-profit schools, and that Trump is trying to propagate a scandal just for publicity.

“He is a showman. He doesn’t seem to think there is any such thing as a bad headline,” Schneiderman said.