and i d really like to take him to trial. i d like to hold him accountable for what he did. reporter: that means taking donald trump into a courtroom. and she may end up defending herself as well. simpson is a registered democrat. during the campaign, she even recorded an anti-trump commercial for an outside group trying to defeat donald trump. do not make the same mistake that i did with donald trump. reporter: while she described herself as just a single mom, sherry simpson is also an attorney. an attorney who specializes in real estate foreclosures, bankruptcies. she s had her law license placed on probation and has herself filed for bankruptcy twice. let me ask you a tough question for an attorney who deals with bankrupt says and foreclosures. how could you be so gullible and how could you be so, i m sorry, but at the time, dumb to fall for this sales pitch?
his alleged reputation. he promised us that he hand picked all of his mentors and teachers and that they were all trained with his still. reporter: simpson says she found out it was all a charade. when the chance came to join a class action lawsuit seeking to get her money back, she signed up. now she s makin a legal move that s threatening to put the entire settlement in jeopardy. she filed a motion with the san diego federal court asking she be lawed to opt out of the national trump university settlement. she wants the ability she says to sue donald trump one on one. if the judge agrees, the entire settlement agreement could be tossed out. you are the lone holdout in all of this. i am. i m not looking to stop the settlement itself. reporter: but you could? i could. i m really hoping that it doesn t.
reporter: the attorneys who are negotiating a settlement on behalf of thousands of trump university students first thought they could recover 50% of what students paid. but they announced last week the settlement could cover up to 80% of what students paid to trump for his discredited real estate school. they have also filed motions trying to block sherry simpson from opting out of the settlement that she already agreed to. simpson s argument, she thought all along she could opt out of a settlement if the settlement did not provide all the money she says trump owes her. why not take that money and run instead of facing a possible elongated and i assume very costly federal lawsuit? and possibly very nasty given his history with this case. reporter: it will be nasty, of course. i think what he did to me and what he did to everybody else was really fraudulent. and i d really like to take him to trial.
trump university, which as you know wasn t really a university at all, is be a being in the spotlight. trump did something he vowed never to do. degr he agreed to a settlement. tomorrow the judge in the case, the one who candidate trump said could not be partial, will consider a motion that could throw those millions in the air. drew griffin tonight reports on the person behind it. reporter: it s all sherry simpson has left of what she first thought would be her ticket to financial freedom. leftover pamphlets, books and how-to brochures from trump university. they were supposed to teach her how to be a real estate millionaire. when she plopped down her money, $20,000 back in 2010, she really believed signing up for donald trump s real estate school would lead to a wealthy future. success. it s going to happen to you. i went for trump because of
reporter: the attorneys who are negotiating a settlement on behalf of thousands of trump university students first thought they could recover 50% of what students paid. but they announced last week the settlement could cover up to 80% of what students paid to trump for his discredited real estate school. they have also filed motions trying to block sherry simpson from opting out of the settlement that she already agreed to. simpson s argument, she thought all along she could opt out of a settlement if the settlement did not provide all the money. she says trump owes her. why not take that money and run instead of facing a possible elongated and i assume very costly federal lawsuit? and possibly very nasty given his history with this case. reporter: it will be nasty, of course. i think what he did to me and what he did to everybody else was really fraudulent.