Trump: Univision Dropping Pageant Is Pro-Hillary Plot

Donald Trump is suing Univision for $500 million after it dropped his beauty pageants. But why is he angry at the guy who brought Power Rangers to the U.S.?

Developer Donald Trump displays a copy of his net worth during his announcement that he will seek the Republican nomination for president, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Developer Donald Trump displays a copy of his net worth during his announcement that he will seek the Republican nomination for president, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been going pretty much as you’d expect so far. At the speech introducing his run for president, he said Mexico was “sending people that have lots of problems… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

That last sentence — well, some maybe are good people — didn’t do much to assuage Trump’s critics. Macy’s will stop selling his ties. NBC dumped his Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, which were a joint production of the station and Trump’s Miss Universe company.

Univision — a competitor to NBC’s Telemundo — said it was dropping the Spanish-language broadcasts of Trump’s two pageants.

Today, Trump and the Miss Universe Organization filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision, alleging breach of contract and defamation.

The lawsuit contains some explosive allegations about Univision and, amazingly, the man whose company adapted Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the United States market.

“While Univision has claimed in the media that its decision to cut ties with MUO [Miss Universe Organization] came in response to certain comments made by Mr. Trump during a June 16, 2015 campaign speech announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, the decision was, in reality, a thinly veiled attempt by Univision, a privately held company principally owned by longtime Clinton Foundation donor and current Hillary Clinton fundraiser, Haim Saban, to suppress Mr. Trump’s freedom of speech under the First Amendment as he begins to campaign for the nation’s presidency.”

Deadline has the full lawsuit, if you’re interested.

Trump’s lawsuit also argues, more convincingly, that Univision was well aware of Trump’s positions on immigration when it signed a contract to broadcast his pageants. (In other news about the Donald, he’s telling people to boycott Macy’s.)

“We just reviewed Mr. Trump’s complaint for the first time, and it is both factually false and legally ridiculous,” Univision said in a statement in response to Trump’s lawsuit “We will not only vigorously defend the case, but will continue to fight against Mr. Trump’s ongoing efforts to run away from the derogatory comments he made on June 16th about Mexican immigrants. Our decision to end our business relationship with Mr. Trump was influenced solely by our responsibility to speak up for the community we serve.”