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riversedge

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Thu Oct 27, 2016, 05:06 PM Oct 2016

Trump U Staff Included Drug Trafficker, Child Molester

Source: abc/AP




Trump U Staff Included Drug Trafficker, Child Molester

By michael biesecker, associated press

WASHINGTON — Oct 27, 2016, 1:45 PM ET

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Donald Trump says he hand-picked only the best to teach success at Trump University. But dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts — including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The AP identified 107 people listed as speakers and staff on more than 21,000 pages of customer-satisfaction surveys the Republican presidential nominee has released as part of his defense against three lawsuits.

Trump and his attorneys have said repeatedly that the surveys show the overwhelming majority of participants were satisfied. However, the suits allege his namesake real-estate seminars were a massive fraud designed to "upsell" students into buying course packages costing as much as $35,000.

As a candidate, Trump has said he will run the U.S. government like he runs his businesses. So his past hiring practices could offer insight into how a President Trump might fill scores of key federal positions............................

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Trump U Staff Included Drug Trafficker, Child Molester (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2016 OP
GRIFTER benld74 Oct 2016 #1
These teachers were all hand picked and vetted by Trump himself Gothmog Oct 2016 #2
Criminals of a feather stay together. 47of74 Oct 2016 #4
Foxes and henhouses come to mind here. 47of74 Oct 2016 #3
He has a pattern with aligning himself with sexual predators SummerSnow Oct 2016 #5
Despicable birds of a feather.... meow2u3 Oct 2016 #6
Link needs to be removed from the link LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #7
Link doesn't work left-of-center2012 Oct 2016 #8
Same problem. Shrike47 Oct 2016 #9
Corrected link: moonscape Oct 2016 #10
Sounds like graduate level course work for "How to be like Trump" nt Xipe Totec Oct 2016 #11
So he hired justgamma Oct 2016 #12
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