Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam

The National Review ^ | February 27, 2016 | Ian Tuttle Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432010/trump-university-scam

[jazminerose]

And Trump, unlike the rest of the Republican Party will smack her right back down with her own scandals AND get the media to cover it.

Nobody but Trump can do that.

[DB]

So morons and their money soon part?

And the moron money vacuum is Trump?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Watch Trump’s personal 2:16 minute “Trump University” sales pitch.

It’s pure Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvaaeHP9xtQ

[orangeTank]

As Trump has pointed out, people who have filed complaints left the course giving it a good evaluation. The class-action suit is not thousands of students, as the course had 10,000 students apparently. Lots and lots of happy customers.

Trump could write a check and make this all go away in one second. But he knows he’s being taken for a ride.

[doghorse]

It’s a class action lawsuit for God’s sake. No different than ambulance chasing attorneys looking for money for a bus load of people whose bus was rear ended by a kid on a moped.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Conservatives will abandon Trump When Governor Cuomo tries to prosecute him.

[patq]

Sounds like people are suing because they are too lazy to work and follow the program. Trump could have settled this but has been winning and will not get pushed around like a junior senator.

On a side note, anyone who paid for a subscription to National Review in the past are the ones who should be suing.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If you care to learn about this, you’ll find that there were no lectures by all these “wonderful professors,” it was a money extraction scam. Many people were encouraged to go into debt because “they’d make it back on their first sale” - so they over extended themselves and their credit was ruined.

Watch the slick video of Trump giving his “university” pitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvaaeHP9xtQ

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sounds like people are suing because they are too lazy to work and follow the program...

There was no program.

[nathanbedford]

Was Willie Sutton engaged in capitalism when he robbed banks at gunpoint? Was Ponzi engaged in capitalism when he perpetrated his scheme and defrauded gullible innocents of millions?

Is Donald Trump practicing capitalism when he engages in fraud to fleece unsophisticated and likely relatively uneducated folks desperate to improve their lot in a semi-capitalist society? Do you deny the practicing fraud is not capitalism but criminal activity? Do you deny that the allegation is that Donald Trump committed a fraud.

If true it is as damning as it gets for a multi billionaire (we think, he might be lying about that too because he won't release his tax returns) to callously lend his name and resources to a scam to line is already deep pockets with the last reserves of the people he cheats.

With the biography of Donald Trump replete with cheating, fraudulent activities, illegal activities, disreputable associations, bankruptcies, sleazy enterprises, why is it that we find so many people willing to drink the Kool-Aid about this man? Why is it that so many people believe that this mountebank will somehow come to Jesus moment he is sworn in?

Are they as desperate as the poor defrauded souls who believed Donald Trump could help them make a career in real estate?

[dp0622]

I got screwed on my first 5 vending machines. Paying for new vending machines is like paying for a new exercise equipment. But I learned and adjusted. But this was devious by Trump. At least a little. I am concerned about the college students who already are Democrats.

[dasboot]

Hamburger University.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Exactly.

[j. earl carter]

The scouts for the timeshare seminars often start their pitch by asking "where are you from?". I would always say, "I live here."

They know I'm lying, but what can they do?

[punchamullah]

I am old enough to remember when a university was an institution for tertiary education which offered degrees in both law and medicine, and doctorates in other disciplines. Branches of the universities and all other tertiary institutions were called colleges or polytechnics.

In the early ‘90s, Singapore, notwithstanding the high educational level of its citizens, had the lowest percentage of university graduates of any country in Asia simply because in Singapore a university was a university.

[stormhill]

When Ross Perot ran, many nominally conservatives flocked to support him.
I heard Jackie Mason say once, "you supporting this guy because he got money? What do you think, you schmuck, that he's gonna give it to you?"

Seems part of Trump's allure is his wealth and power but after hearing a short list of the Wall Street banks he owes major money to, I really wonder if he's as rich as he's implying. Why would a multi billionaire keep going bankrupt?

[VideoDoctor]

Well.. now that I've heard this I will most surely will be VOTING TRUMP.

I have to hand it to you Cincinatus' Wife.. you KNOW how to BUILD SUPPORT for Trump.

[Gene Eric]

An excellent point; though, I don’t agree with the charge. My GSD failed Doggie University — I’m not joking.

I have no problem with objections to Trump. He’s certainly a bombastic, crass know-it-all. But his empire wasn’t derived from taxation. Trump is a reflection of the market he serves. Don’t like his products, don’t pay for them. Can the same be said for the charlatans in DC?

[ghosthost]

The Clintons have killed countless numbers of people and obama is. muslim communist chosen by soros.

[Utmost Certainty]

Okay, well let’s just sit out the election since there are no decent candidates in the running.

Problem solved.