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Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:15 AM Aug 2016

The Trump Files: Donald Couldn't Name Any of His "Handpicked" Trump U Professors

Mother Jones:

"We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific," Donald Trump once promised potential students at the now-defunct Trump University in a marketing video. "Terrific people. Terrific brains. Successful." And to reassure them, he made a promise: "These are all people that are handpicked by me."

Not quite.

Trump University has been sued for illegal business practices, fraud, and racketeering three times, once by the state of New York and twice by former students in federal courts in California. The school was also investigated and then ceased operations in Texas, where a state regulator claims the probe was dropped for "political reasons"—Trump later gave $35,000 to the gubernatorial campaign of Greg Abbott, who was the Texas attorney general during the Trump University investigation. And it turned out that the "terrific" instructors at Trump University turned out to be mostly high-pressure salesmen who pushed attendees to purchase $35,000 Trump University courses, even if it meant calling their banks for a credit limit raise on the spot. The professorial ranks included people with no real estate experience and even a convicted felon. Donald Trump knew none of them.

As investigative reporter David Cay Johnston wrote in his new book, The Making of Donald Trump, Trump admitted during legal proceedings that his claims to have handpicked the faculty were false.
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The Trump Files: Donald Couldn't Name Any of His "Handpicked" Trump U Professors (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2016 OP
Everything about him is a complete fraud. NurseJackie Aug 2016 #1
Pay for play, here it is, in lights. Trump University is anther scam by Trump. Thinkingabout Aug 2016 #2
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