Posted on 09/14/2015 4:09:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
They hoped to get rich off real estate, and who would be a better mentor than one of the richest men in the world? So they enrolled in Donald Trump’s university to learn the tricks of the trade, some of them maxing out their credit cards to pay tens of thousands of dollars for insider knowledge they believed could make them wealthy.
With Trump rising in the polls as the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, his brief foray into education is an episode — and a business failure — that remains far more obscure than other chapters of the celebrity billionaire’s career.
Never licensed as a school, Trump University was in reality a series of real estate workshops in hotel ballrooms around the country, not unlike many other for-profit self-help or motivational seminars. Though short-lived, it remains a thorn in Trump’s side nearly five years after its operations ceased: In three pending lawsuits, including one in which the New York attorney general is seeking $40 million in restitution, former students allege that the enterprise bilked them out of their money with misleading advertisements.
Instead of a fast route to easy money, these Trump University students say they found generic seminars led by salesmen who pressured them to invest more cash in additional courses. The students say they didn’t learn Trump’s secrets and never received the one-on-one guidance they expected.
It’s a chapter of Trump’s past that shows how he sometimes defies the usual laws of campaign physics. Such allegations of multimillion-dollar fraud might sink other candidates, but in Trump’s case, even some of the students who felt duped said they haven’t given up on him: They like Trump. They admire him. They might even vote for him.
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Can you prove the GOPe oppose him? His campaign manager is one of their bigger hacks, as are most of his advisers. Or are we supposed to ignore that?
RE: The GOPe is opposed to Trump as are you.
FALSE. I am not opposed to him. In fact if it boils down to Trump vs ANY Democrat. I’d vote for Trump.
But I am not certain that he is the best conservative candidate out there. Heck I am not even sure that he is a conservative in the sense we understand it.
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>> “ So what was your intent in posting it is a better question.” <<
Who are you? Adolf Eichmann?
Did it occur to you that presenting the truth is a nobble pursuit?
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Another day, another hit piece on the republican front runner. Yawn.
I racked up $100,000 in debt at the State University of New York to get a degree in Womyn’s Studies and now I can’t find a job!
Now who is guilty of fraud?!
You don't need my permission. The GOPe appreciates your help.
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The truth must never be told about the Donald!
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Well, we've done so well lately with establishment 'conservatives'. Let's just keeping banging that drum and see how far it gets us.
I don't see the problem, lets get everything out in the open now.
I would rather know about Trumps failures than know NOTHING about the usurper now in the White Hut.
Haha...just keep voting in the same old politicians who have wrecked this country. Care to share who you support?
“Basically all the rules that protect a Democrat politician, also protect Trump. Why is that?”
Right or wrong, it may be because so many people are fed up with Republicans historically knuckling under to every hit piece (while Dems always skate) that they’re willing to overlook things that even they might ordinarily object to - in the last-ditch hope that someone MIGHT be willing and able to effectively address the critical problems we face.
Little Emma sounds like she’s having a snit fit. Thanks for sharing Emma. You can get back to your “smart” phone now.
Keep on swinging idiots!
Heck with this thread. Go over to the big Rally thread!
RE: But I am not certain that he is the best conservative candidate out there. that can get elected. You didn’t finish that sentence.
So, you’d rather someone win an election even if you are uncertain about his conservative credentials?
Did someone ask Trump what kind of Federal judge or justice he will appoint? What was his response?
When you sell your name to just about anything you have to live with the consequences.
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