Trump was a con-artist? He told people one thing and did something different? I couldn’t have seen that coming/s/
IKR
The 11/15 Time article has a lot more information.
Trump and his university, which operated from 2005 through 2010, when it was shut down as the San Diego suits and multiple state attorneys general investigations were beginning, lured approximately 7,000 consumers into paying $1,495 to $34,995 for courses where, as the promotional material put it, Donald Trump's "handpicked instructors" would teach them Trump's "insider success secrets" of how to invest in real estate.- - -Trump "created, funded, implemented and benefited from a scam that cost them... thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars each," the lawyers suing him have argued.
Trump told me recently, in a rare discussion about the details of the case, that he "loves talking about this," because the courses were "fantastic." He has surveys filled out by students, he said, showing a "98% satisfaction rate" that is "better than Harvard's." He is "dying to go to court," he insisted. However, his lawyers so far have thrown five years" of procedural roadblocks in front of a trial.
Trump has testified in a deposition (after promising to sue the lawyers suing him) that he had no direct role in creating the curriculum or hiring the teachers.At least he's a GREAT manager. Right?He did not know, he said, if his "university" conferred degrees. (It didn't.)
And he could not explain what the sales materials were referring to when they touted Trump's "foreclosure system" for flipping distressed properties.