Trump set to go to trial over claims he duped investors into backing failed video phone

Donald Trump is set to face yet another trial this month involving allegations that he duped investors into putting money into a failed video phone.

The little-mentioned civil trial is scheduled to start on January 29, Newsweek reported Monday.

The lawsuit which was filed in 2018 claims Trump was paid millions of dollars to endorse the company ACN, which was marketing a video phone — a technology that became quickly outdated with the advent of smartphones.

The lawsuit claims he used his TV show Celebrity Apprentice to promote the phone, but didn’t disclose a financial connection to ACN, Newsweek reported. The lawsuit claims he said the phones were bringing in “half-a-billion dollars” a year.