Being the commander-in-tweet is not helping President Trump in court.
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday denied Trump’s request to force four people suing him over his business dealings to reveal their true identities.
The judge said the two women and two men who sued the president over his ties to a multilevel marketing company could remain anonymous, citing Trump’s “pattern of past conduct” slamming his critics publicly on Twitter.
“The manner in which the president has used his position and platform to affect the course of pending court cases is . . . really without precedent,” Judge Lorna Schofield said at a hearing on the proposed class-action suit, which accuses Trump and his children Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka of duping people into giving money to the company, ACN.
The defendants sued the Trumps in October, claiming they conned them into sinking cash into ACN’s money-losing schemes while Trump was pocketing millions in “secret payments” for his endorsement.
Trump’s lawyers moved last month to have the four defendants, described in the lawsuit only as “working-class Americans,” reveal their true identifies.
Trump has been known to publicly blast judges who rule against him, calling them “biased” or “an Obama judge.”



