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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If a billionaire wants to teach you how to get rich or merely improve your lot in life, then the courses would be invaluable
Idiots
Explain to me the failure of the best hitters in baseball and why they are qualified to give classes or coach in fielding and smacking a ball out of the park.
They suck 60-70% of the time.
>> sounds like a small epidemic of cultic adoration <<
Small?
>> The incessant barrage of hit pieces on Trump have become laughably counterproductive <<
Well, then it seems to me that if you truly favor Trump for the nomination, you should want to see MORE of these hostile pieces, not less.
The Trumpian Way
>> The truth must never be told about the Donald! <<
Wrong. The truth is that DT can do no wrong. Shout it far and wide, yea, even to the ends of the Earth!
.People on this thread (and many more) are bent up like pretzels trying the assure that Trump is perceived as something he is not.
So only WaPo pieces favorable to Trump can get published?
Can’t we examine the evident Trumpoonery-Buffonery that is being dished out by a faux conservative who has no clue and cannot tell us how he plans to identify, locate, detain, and deport over 11 million illegals to over 20 foreign countries using planes, buses, and ships,in the face of a likely rainstorm of court injunctions? And has no problem with reverse discrimination; gay marriage, funding Planned Parenthood,and abortion? What are we supposed to be? Trumbots?
“Will Trump give us more gays? More abortion? More socialized medicine? More pro Islamic treaties and immigration? I don’t think that even if he was really supportive of these causes, he could make it worse!
No matter what anyone thinks, Trump cares about America and is not bent on destroying it like the current regime.”
Would Cruz, Fiorina, Rubio, Walker, Carson et al give us those things? They all care about America. The question is who would make the best president? Trump doesn’t automatically qualify.
I’ve always been HORRIBLY sarcastic...
WaPo has pieces favorable to Trump?
He fails there too. ID near 100, negatives well past 55.
If he cared about America he wouldn't have helped Harry Reid, Hillary, Pelosi.. Senate Democrats and House Democrats get elected.
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