Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony

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https://twitter.com/stevenjldamico/status/737732136187334656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw




MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/us/politics/donald-trump-university.html

Trump University Told Recruiters to Target Single Parents With Hungry Kids

"We teach the technique of using OPM ... other people’s money,” reads one sales script that was obtained by The Hill. "Most students who are invited to this program use established lines of credit, like a credit card, utilizing the bank’s money, OPM, to handle their tuition. I’m not talking about tens of thousands of dollars, but on the other hand, not a couple of hundred dollars either.”

If a cash-strapped applicant said, "I don't like using my credit cards and going into debt," the playbook instructed recruiters to respond, "Do you like living paycheck to paycheck? ... Do you enjoy seeing everyone else but yourself in their dream houses and driving their dreams cars with huge checking accounts? Those people saw an opportunity, and didn't make excuses, like what you're doing now."

MORE:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/trump-u-targeted-single-parents-with-hungry-kids.html?mid=facebook_nymag




Former Employees Call Trump University a "Façade" That "Preyed Upon the Elderly and Uneducated

http://www.cafe.com/cafes-exclusive-poll-96-americans-believe-donald-trumps-manhood-average-average-size/?utm_source=TwitterOnsite



Trump Stole Highly Private Personal Financial Info From Trump University Dupes

The playbooks instructed staff to have students fill out forms detailing their personal assets, ostensibly to provide targeted recommendations for investment. The playbooks, however, said the real purpose was to determine which students were good targets for the most expensive programs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-involved-in-crafting-controversial-trump-university-ads-executive-testified/2016/05/31/f032a488-2741-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/31/1533023/-Trump-Stole-Highly-Private-Personal-Financial-Info-From-Trump-University-Dupes

here too:
https://americanbridgepac.org/seven-most-shocking-trump-u-document-revelations/

[malaise]

1. But but but

Don the Con says that's what businessmen do - separate people from their homes, money, property - anything to enrich himself.

[LynneSin]

17. 'Don the Con'

That's a nickname we should all be using when referring to Trump

[malaise]

20. Agreed

[Surya Gayatri]

2. K & R. Thanks for posting.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. He went one step further than most republicans.

I think their concept is, if there aren't enough jobs to go around, keep their minds preoccupied with training.

[Ilsa]

4. K&R nt.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Many persons and entities were part of legitimizing this man for decades even as he ripped off

vulnerable people. NBC, obviously has much to answer for but so do all the 'celebrities' that played for pay and all the political people who looked the other way. Trump did not drop out of the sky. I was protesting him in the 1980's but our front runner was at his wedding in 2005. Those to actions are not the same. It took a village. Hope the village is happy with the outcome.

[SDJay]

6. I Think Everybody

even his fanatical supporters, to a degree, know that Drumpf is pure scum. This doesn't really change anything except to toss yet another log on that fire.

The question is whether or not it'll affect the vote. Frankly and sadly, I don't think it will. He really wasn't that off base when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and it wouldn't matter, or whatever he specifically said.

I think these types of facts need to continue to be released relentlessly. I don't just want this piece of garbage to lose in November, I want him so shamed and exposed for what he is that his public life all but ends. The world will honestly be a better place for it.

[underpants]

7. He loves the poorly educated!

"Corporate psychopath" is a phrase I learned last night from an FBI agent (whole other story), seems to fit.


FBI BREAKDOWN HERE

https://leb.fbi.gov/2012/november/the-corporate-psychopath

[47of74]

11. Thank you!

I hesitate to diagnose anyone with anything from a distance - especially given that I have no training beyond the couple courses I took in college and that I don't want to make an ass of myself like one Bill Frist did.

But like Russian epic of Cinderella (h/t Mr. Chekov) says, if jackboot fits...

[PunkinPi]

16. Yep, that quote is more telling than I think he realized. nt

[Vinca]

8. Why is this only a civil case?

If this isn't fraud, I don't know what is. "The Donald" should be headed to the big house . . . and I don't mean Mar-A-Lago.

[cstanleytech]

9. Because its not fraud its high pressure tactics similar to what car dealers use which isnt a crime.

Its also why I have doubts that a civil case will survive an appeal should they win but *shrug* who knows maybe they will succeed where others have failed.

[passiveporcupine]

21. These get rich quick power seminars are all scams

they remind me of Scientology and EST, and Televangelists.

I think they should all be illegal, but for some reason we don't protect innocent dupes from being taken by things like this and payday loans.

I think Trump should ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz to be his VP. What a great team they could make.

[47of74]

10. It's Yuuuuuuuuuge!

The shit that the Donald has done.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

12. Great post.. rec'd

Thank you for the hard work...

[PatrickforO]

13. For 'the Donald' as for any fat cat capitalist, life is a zero sum game - for someone to win,

someone else must lose. This is why capitalism sucks, and why we must never, ever, ever vote this amoral man into the White House. How many people's lives, do you think, has he ruined with his bankruptcies? How many of his employees are stressed out temporaries with low wages, crummy benefits and no economic security to speak of?

No Donald, you cannot go to the White House as President. You are not good enough.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. I'm very conflicted

Part of me wants to think that billionaires are not involved in the details
of pricing actions that accrue directly to their bottom line. Warren Buffet
hires managers to run his businesses.

I don't know enough about the Icahn's and Peltz's of this world to comment
very much, though to my eye the prices of goods and services sold by some
of their companies have risen, and ceased to be a value proposition I would
patronize.

In other words, if it's a billionaire's business, don't go there. He don't need your money.

[Stuart G]

15. k and r... a true con artist...............nt

[IronLionZion]

18. Trump's entire life is a lie and a scheme

of defrauding his investors so that other people pay for his foolish mistakes while he pretends to be a winner.

He clearly wanted the housing market to crash. When rich powerful people want something bad enough, it has a way of happening.

[napkinz]

19. ...

[napkinz]

22. kick

[nxylas]

23. But it has dozens of satisfied graduates!

Yes, The American Spectator actually said that. I'd provide a link, but donotlink.com appears to be down right now.