but he's got some legal trouble with it since a scammer is trying to claim he owns the domain name.
Until things get ironed out, I'm not too trusting of the bitcoin.org site.
That's irrelevant. You should never fully trust anything that is centralized whether it is bitcoin.org or bitcoincore.org or blahblah.org. We are in a decentralized and open source world, you should only trust the source code and verify the reproducibility of the binaries and/or verify their signatures.