"Yesterday’s story was false and misleading — including statements that my office ‘publically announced it was deliberating whether to join a lawsuit’ or that I 'nixed suing Trump.' My office has made public every document on this issue, which shows no one in my office ever opened an investigation on Trump University nor was there a basis for doing so. Any news story that suggests otherwise is completely false. I have spent my career prosecuting criminals and protecting Floridians and will not compromise my dedication to our citizens."Bondi's comment that there never was a basis for investigating Trump and his businesses contradict what the Orlando Sentinel found when it requested records from her office. The Sentinel reported the records mentioned one complaint, then two, then 23 complaints. One man who complained he was driven to bankruptcy by Trump U was told by Bondi's staff to visit Yahoo or Google and search for related class-action lawsuits.
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