Donald Trump baselessly speculated that he was being personally targeted by President Obama through a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general over allegations that Trump University has engaged in illegal business practices.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit August 24 “accusing Trump University, Donald J. Trump's for-profit investment school, of engaging in illegal business practices,” according to The New York Times. The lawsuit accuses Trump of running the school as an “unlicensed education institution” and making false claims about the classes offered.

Fox & Friends hosted Trump to discuss the suit on August 26 where he baselessly speculated that President Obama was using the lawsuit to politically target him, noting that Schneiderman and Obama met two days before the suit was filed and saying, “Maybe this is a mini IRS.” Co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy agreed with Trump that the president may have been involved, noting, “The president hasn't liked you for a while.”

In fact, Schneiderman has been investigating Trump's for-profit university for years. In May 2011, the Times reported that the attorney general had launched an investigation “prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school” that he had found to be “credible” and “serious.” The inquiry was part of a broader investigation into at least five for-profit educational companies.

The Times also noted that Trump University had faced “a string of consumer complaints, reprimands from state regulators and a lawsuit from dissatisfied former students.” The school received a D-minus rating from the Better Business Bureau, and changed its name to Trump Entrepreneur Initiative in 2010 following complaints from New York and Maryland that using “university” in its title violated state education laws.