Just to clarify there. Legality never came up. This is a moral/principle issue.
Lots of people believe things I don’t agree with. That’s not the criteria here.
People are upset because he was using his money and power to attack people who are in a position of weakness from his position of strength.
I for one find that kind of … well … evil. (that part’s an opinion) and it’s certainly uncivil, unreasonable, and unnecessarily disruptive (that’s fact from a definition standpoint)