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TheBlackAdder

(28,167 posts)
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 12:16 PM Jul 2021

Losers: Court Denies Trump Family Arbitration In ACN Suit (Promoting an MLM)

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Donald Trump pretended to be an expert in business and making money. He endorsed the multi-level marketing company ACN and had their representatives on The Apprentice TV show twice. The implications were clear: "Donald Trump knows good companies when he sees them! It's an opportunity to become rich!"

Trump and his family were being PAID to do this, of course.

Or, as Courthouse News puts it, this "federal class action [lawsuit] says the Trumps perpetuated a yearslong fraud by promoting the ACN pyramid scheme on 'The Apprentice' and at business conventions."

And while ACN required their victims buyers to sign a contract committing to arbitration should they sue, Trump and his family, as paid endorsers, never signed such a contract with ACN or with anyone giving money to ACN to make more money.
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Central to the plaintiffs’ theory of fraud is that the defendants misled the plaintiffs to believe that the defendants and ACN were independent of one another and that the defendants were endorsing and promoting ACN based on an objective outside assessment of the value of ACN’s business opportunity."

Instead, Trump was endorsing ACN for money.


Fully story at the jump (read time 2 mins):
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/07/losers-court-denies-trump-family



The tide is slowly turning on the Trumps.

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