Trump, Palm Beach flag flap in suit

New York attorney general: Foundation funds used to settle battle with town, for Bondi campaign gift.

PALM BEACH — President Donald Trump’s long-ago dispute with Palm Beach over the American flag flying over Mar-a-Lago came back to skewer the real estate tycoon Thursday when New York’s top law enforcer said it exemplified how Trump misused millions of dollars from his charitable foundation to pay off personal, business and political debts.

“Mr. Trump ran the foundation according to his whim, rather than the law,” New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a 41-page lawsuit she filed against Trump, two of his children, Eric and Ivanka, and the Donald J. Trump Foundation in

the Supreme Court of New York in Manhattan.

Underwood is asking a judge to shutter the foundation, to prohibit Trump from being involved in any New York charity for 10 years and to order the nation’s commander in chief to pay $5.6 million — double the $2.8 million in foundation funds she claims he used for his own benefit.

The lawsuit, which capped a two-year investigation, revealed more than a dozen examples of “improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful

self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations,” she wrote.

“Mr. Trump used charitable assets to pay off the legal obligations of entities he controlled, to promote Trump hotels, to purchase personal items and to support his presidential election campaign,” she said.

In a tweet, Trump blasted the investigation, noting that it began under Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned in May after four women accused him of physical abuse.

“The sleazy New York Dem-