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| Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 26 2016, 04:02 PM (461 Views) | |
| Fact | May 26 2016, 04:02 PM Post #1 |
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This is not my opinion. The following are facts presented in an article by the very CONSERVATIVE National Review. by IAN TUTTLEFebruary 26, 2016 5:18 PM @IPTUTTLE Many people believe that higher education is a de facto scam. Trump University, Donald Trump’s real-estate institution, was a de jure one. First thing first, Trump University was never a university. When the “school” was established in 2005, the New York State Education Department warned that it was in violation of state law for operating without a NYSED license. Trump ignored the warnings. (The institution is now called, ahem, “Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.”) Cue lawsuits. Trump University is currently the defendant in three lawsuits — two class-action lawsuits filed in California, and one filed in New York by then-attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who told CNN’s New Day in 2013: “We started looking at Trump University and discovered that it was a classic bait-and-switch scheme. It was a scam, starting with the fact that it was not a university.” Trump U “students” say the same. In his affidavit, Richard Hewson reported that he and his wife “concluded that we had paid over $20,000 for nothing, based on our belief in Donald Trump and the promises made at the [organization’s] free seminar and three-day workshop.” But “the whole thing was a scam.” In fact, $20,000 is only a mid-range loss. The lead plaintiff in one of the California suits, yoga instructor Tarla Makaeff, says she was “scammed” out of $60,000 over the course of her time in Trump U. How could that have happened? The New York suit offers a suggestion: The free seminars were the first step in a bait and switch to induce prospective students to enroll in increasingly expensive seminars starting with the three-day $1495 seminar and ultimately one of respondents’ advanced seminars such as the “Gold Elite” program costing $35,000. At the “free” 90-minute introductory seminars to which Trump University advertisements and solicitations invited prospective students, Trump University instructors engaged in a methodical, systematic series of misrepresentations designed to convince students to sign up for the Trump University three-day seminar at a cost of $1495. The Atlantic, which got hold of a 41-page “Private & Confidential” playbook from Trump U, has attested to the same: The playbook says almost nothing about the guest speaker presentations, the ostensible reason why people showed up to the seminar in the first place. Instead, the playbook focuses on the seminars’ real purpose: to browbeat attendees into purchasing expensive Trump University course packages. To do that, instructors touted Trump’s own promises: that students would be “mentored” by “handpicked” real-estate experts, who would use Trump’s own real-estate strategies. Here’s Trump making the pitch himself: Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432010/trump-university-scam Go to the article and read more. What Trump did is indefensible and he belongs behind bars. Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. He's impeached already. Trump makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout. (Closed - SY by topic author) Edited by Coast2coast, May 27 2016, 01:43 AM.
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| Alt Right PEPE | May 26 2016, 09:10 PM Post #2 |
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1. Prove it in court 2. Get used to this look as he dismantles everything Obama has done, systematically, piece by piece...
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"Be polite, be friendly. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet." Gen Mattis | |
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| Robert Stout | May 26 2016, 09:54 PM Post #3 |
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All these private trade schools are a scam...They are an IQ test on the suckers who enroll............. :oyvey |
| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Fact | May 26 2016, 10:02 PM Post #4 |
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Stop lying. It is being proven on court. I bet you think that OJ didn't kill Ron and Nicole because a court said he didn't do it. You know that Trump is a criminal scoundrel and a low life POS yet you support him. What does that say about you? One might think that you are also a low life POS. I'm not calling you a lowlife POS but I am thinking that you are. |
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| Drudge X | May 26 2016, 10:17 PM Post #5 |
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The Obama administration called Univ. of Phoenix a scam until he seized it and handed over to his friends. The scam suddenly ceased. Bulls*** is bulls*** does.
Edited by Drudge X, May 26 2016, 10:18 PM.
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| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Fact | May 26 2016, 11:22 PM Post #6 |
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Why are you posting crap that you know isn't true and why are you trying to derail this thread? |
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| estonianman | May 27 2016, 01:02 AM Post #7 |
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Your train was off the rails long ago A13 |
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