Posted on 03/08/2016 11:46:54 AM PST by Kaslin
During last week's Fox News GOP debate in Detroit, Donald Trump was confronted by anchor Megyn Kelly about Trump University.
Trump claimed during the debate Trump University received an A-rating from the Better Business Bureau. As Kelly pointed out in an exchange with Trump at the debate, that is false. Trump then claimed the BBB faxed him in the middle of the debate to confirm the A-rating. They didn't. Trump's people handed moderators a sheet of paper and claimed it was from the BBB to verify the A-rating. It wasn't.
Megyn Kelly EXPOSES Donald's TRUMP University SCAMS! - GOP Debate
Trump University came under fire more than a decade ago when thousands of students issued complaints about fraud in the program. Turns out, Trump University was a massive scam.
Trump University was never a university. When the “school” was established in 2005, the New York State Education Department warned that it was in violation of state law for operating without a NYSED license. Trump ignored the warnings. (The institution is now called, ahem, “Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.”) Cue lawsuits.
Trump University is currently the defendant in three lawsuits — two class-action lawsuits filed in California, and one filed in New York by then-attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who told CNN’s New Day in 2013: “We started looking at Trump University and discovered that it was a classic bait-and-switch scheme. It was a scam, starting with the fact that it was not a university.”
Today, the BBB is confirming that they a) did not fax Trump in the middle of the debate b) Trump University did in fact receive a D- rating and didn't improve to an A-rating until nearly 10 years after it was established. From a statement released by BBB (bolding is mine):
1. BBB did not send a document of any kind to the Republican debate site last Thursday evening. The document presented to debate moderators did not come from BBB that night.
2. Trump University does not currently have an A rating with BBB. The BBB Business Review for this company has continually been “No Rating” since September 2015. Prior to that, it fluctuated between D- and A+.
3. The document posted on social media on Thursday night was not a current BBB Business Review of Trump University. It appeared to be part of a Business Review from 2014.
4. BBB ratings are based on information we obtain about a business, including complaints received from the public. The reporting period is three years. Detailed information about BBB ratings is available on all 5.3 million Business Reviews on our website, bbb.org.
5. At no point did BBB change the rating of Trump University based upon a demand from anyone. BBB followed its standard evaluation process applicable to all businesses.
6. During the period when Trump University appeared to be active in the marketplace, BBB received multiple customer complaints about this business. These complaints affected the Trump University BBB rating, which was as low as D- in 2010. As the company appeared to be winding down, after 2013, no new complaints were reported. Complaints over three years old automatically rolled off of the Business Review, according to BBB policy. As a result, over time, Trump University’s BBB rating went to an A in July 2014 and then to an A+ in January 2015.
7. Trump University has never been a BBB Accredited Business. The document handed to the debate moderators on Thursday night could not have been an actual “Better Business Bureau accreditation notice” for this business.
Trump University only received an A+ rating right before it shut down and after years of complaints. In 2013, the year the rating improved, Trump University was sued by New York's Attorney General for $40 million. Donald Trump Sued for Fraud N Y Attorney General Says Trump University Students 'Fleeced'
Trump admitted during the debate to refunding thousands of students who signed up for his program and a class action lawsuit, which includes more than 5000 people, is still ongoing.
I'll leave you with this: Sherri - 60 Seconds
And illary is under criminal investigation by the FBI and no-justice department!
1. North Korea, just yesterday. threating to attack us with nukes
2.The Iranian's with their newly acquired 150 billion dollars -can simply buy nukes now!
3. Mullah Obama has already begun flying in his preset goal of 170,000 Islamic Muslim rapefugees! How many of these 170,000 will eventually beat, rape and murder our fellow Americans. How many of these 170,000 will arrive here - and eventually pull out machine guns on us.
4. The illegal mexican horde currently here and the illegal mexican hordes always enroute here -taking millions upon millions of jobs from Americans (white, black and hispanic Americans), swarming our schools, bankrupting our hospitals, raping and murdering fellow Americans. [and all the very slimy democrat politicians welcoming them -as potential democrat voters]
I'm voting for Trump!
Notice that ME-Gyn or Fox during the debate didn't mention the "A" if she or they knew about it. She's not a very good reporter is she.
Did ... but not one ever likely to be listed ... but know how it works.
is it ok that Kelly stepped outside of her role as "moderator" just this once?
He never said it wasn’t a BBB rating. It obviously was. It’s just that the BBB didn’t send it directly to him, in direct contradiction of what so many of the anti-Trumpers are claiming in a vain attempt to portray him as a liar.
Trump University did indeed hold an A- rating from the BBB, at least for a while.
Trump did receive a faxed copy of this rating, from his office, during the debate, and declared it as coming from his office.
The anti-Trumpers, in a desperate attempt to land a blow against Trump, have mischaracterized the scenario as Trump claiming that he received that copy of the rating *directly* from someone at the BBB, so they can then turn around and accuse him of lying about it, brandishing the BBB quote that they never sent anything to him.
It’s perfectly true that the BBB never sent Trump anything. But since Trump never claimed that, the claim is irrelevant.
Your pretty slow others beat you...
She knew about it.
She declared in her ‘debate’ that “We”, meaning her and her barking rump humpers, spent hours and hours fact-checking the background on Trump U.
She decided to spike the truth.
The media never lie do they?
At the same time, has any news outlet been able to locate anybody who went to high school with Barack Hussein Obama?
Selective reading is right!
During the period when Trump University appeared to be active in the marketplace, BBB received multiple customer complaints about this business. These complaints affected the Trump University BBB rating, which was as low as D- in 2010. As the company appeared to be winding down, after 2013, no new complaints were reported.
>>>>Complaints over three years old automatically rolled off of the Business Review, according to BBB policy. As a result, over time, Trump University’s BBB rating went to an A in July 2014 and then to an A+ in January 2015.<<<<
Fox News: Fair and Balanced Biased and Unstable.
“Apparently Kelly was smart enough to see through the subterfuge and did not fall for the Three Card Monty”
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Kelly isn’t smart enough to find her pants in the morning.
“Trump University did indeed hold an A- rating from the BBB, at least for a while.”
It did for a fact, but only after it went out of business (without informing BBB of course) and no NEW complaints came in.
Some do see Trump similarities to nobama. Are you confirming them?
Vote Trump.
That being obviously false, they are now changing their story. But the new story isn't any better.
The D rating that improved as Trump U stopped operating is nothing to brag about.
"Our number of complaints dropped off as we ceased doing business." Brilliant!
The very asking of questions by Texas AG was enough to get the operation to pull up stakes and leave the state. That tells you all you need to know.
I would not be the only one to dig that.
But then again she is drawing several million a year and we are both wasting time online.
It wouldn’t be so bad it Trump had admitted that the BBB did indeed give his university a D rating but it was later changed to an A
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