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Quote:Donald Trump’s pitch for his Trump University promised a world of possibility to potential students.
"At Trump University, we teach success. That’s what it’s all about. Success," he tells his audience. "It’s going to happen to you." In one advertisement promoting free seminars for the school, Trump guaranteed results. "In just 90 minutes, my hand-picked instructors will share my techniques, which took my entire career to develop. Then, just copy exactly what I’ve done and get rich," he said.
Leaning on an image of wealth and expertise—drawn less from reality than from reality television—Trump promised an easy path to prosperity, and people believed him. At least 5,000 people bought into Trump University, paying as much as $35,000 each to participate in live seminars and mentorship programs. These students bought in expecting they would learn Trump’s real estate investment skills, and receive special financing and close mentoring that would help them recoup the cost of their training and then some.
Trump didn’t just fail to deliver; the entire thing was a scam. Far from "hand-picked," his instructors had little knowledge of real estate. Many customers would later allege that they paid for services never received. Finally, he pushed his employees to target the elderly and uneducated, pushing vulnerable people to take on thousands of dollars in debt and exploiting their hope for a better life to line his pockets. Ultimately, the law caught Trump, forcing him to pay a $25 million settlement for this fraud.
Trump's budget is his biggest fraud since Trump University - Business Insider
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Curious that Trump's Foundation never really made much press, despite a host of dodgy nonsense like this:
Quote:The Eric Trump Foundation apparently paid President Donald Trump's businesses $1.2 million between 2007 and 2015 for expenses related to the foundation's annual charity event at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, according to a new Forbes report.
Eric Trump told Forbes that the Trump Organization, which he now runs with his older brother, allowed his non-profit foundation to use the golf course for free and covered most expenses for the golf tournament. But IRS filings apparently indicate otherwise.
According to Forbes' research, the Trump National Golf Club charged the Eric Trump Foundation tens — and later hundreds — of thousands of dollars each year for the one-day event, while donors were led to believe that a much bigger chunk of their money would go directly to the fundraiser's chosen cause, children's cancer research.
Trumps funneled charity donations to Trump Organization - Business Insider
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Trump University isn't going away anytime soon..
Quote:Most people probably think the Trump University lawsuit — in which students at the supposed “school” accused our now-president of fraud — is over. Donald Trump settled for $25 million in November, shortly after he was elected. But it’s not over. One plaintiff, Sherri Simpson, wants to take Trump to trial, as she explained in a column for Vox recently.
“I understand why some folks simply want to settle, take a little money, and forget this ever happened,” Simpson wrote. “Scams like Trump U victimize the vulnerable, and they need to be stopped. ... This shouldn’t be swept under the rug with a settlement that doesn’t even require him to pay back what he took or admit guilt.”
Simpson has hired some prestigious Washington lawyers, including Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler, who was a litigator in the Obama administration and has argued cases before the Supreme Court, to pursue her case. I asked Gupta some questions about the case recently over email. Why isn’t this over? What happens now? Could Trump really go to trial? So this is one side of the story, the allegations against Trump. Our exchange is below, edited for clarity and length.
The Trump University case isn’t over. An attorney on the case explains what’s next. - Vox
Read the article to understand the $170M scam and what could happen next..
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This is the President of the US speaking..
Quote:Trump allegedly made the remark during an Oval Office meeting with lawmaker on immigration policy. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump asked, saying the U.S. should bring in more people from countries such as Norway, whose prime minister visited the White House on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post. Trump previously drew heat for reportedly saying immigrants from Haiti "all have AIDS" and Nigerian immigrants would never "go back to their huts" if they were allowed to enter the U.S. The White House has denied those comments. The White House did not deny Trump's Thursday remarks
Dem lawmaker on Trump 's---hole' comment: GOP needs to call this racist | TheHill
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LOL
Quote:President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged a $130,000 payment his attorney made to porn star Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, in 2016 for the first time on Thursday. Trump denies knowing anything about the payment, including where his lawyer, Michael Cohen, got the money from.
Trump breaks silence on Stormy Daniels - Business Insider
Yea, his lawyer paid that out of his own pocket, without his client knowing anything about it... That's actually malpractice.
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Ain't it curious, everybody, even the President's defenders, seem to assume he's guilty of something..
Quote:"They're going to threaten him with a long prison term and try to turn him into a canary that sings," the Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said. But what if Cohen doesn't know the words? That feels like the third possibility we should be discussing: that Cohen has nothing of value to tell federal prosecutors about Trump, because they never engaged in criminal wrongdoing together. Of course, that's not my working theory of the case.
But isn't that a possibility the president's advocates and defenders should want to pretend is plausible? Yet they don't. And it reflects a weird, unspoken assumption in discussing the president's legal troubles, going back at least to the president's declaration that his personal business interests outside Russia are a "red line" the special counsel Robert Mueller must not cross. Why must an investigation into the president's family business be prevented? Because everyone assumes there were crimes there. There is a very live and sincere dispute over the question of whether Trump or his associates committed any crimes related to Russia or the election. The president calls that stuff a "hoax," and his defenders agree. But the rest of it is more of an "Eh, what can you do?" situation.
Michael Cohen: Why don't Trump's friends pretend it's all above water? - Business Insider
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Trump University, the scam looked from the inside, amazing stuff, especially the second one..
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They keep on coming..
Quote:President Donald Trump appeared to threaten countries that oppose a joint 2026 World Cup bid by the U.S., Canada and Mexico in a tweet late Thursday.
“It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid. Why should we be supporting these countries when they don’t support us (including at the United Nations)?” Trump said.
The stunning implication that nations could pay an economic or political price for not supporting the joint bid appears unprecedented.
Did Trump just threaten the world over the 2026 World Cup? - MarketWatch
What? Other countries are not allowed to bid? What happened to fair competition?
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Quote:The former director of the Office of Government Ethics on Thursday said that revelations that President Trump reimbursed personal attorney Michael Cohen for a payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels means the president has admitted to filing a false financial disclosure. Walter Shaub tweeted that “in trying to talk his way out of a campaign finance violation, Trump has admitted to filing a false financial disclosure in 2017.” "He personally certified that his disclosure was ‘complete and correct,’” Shaub tweeted.
Ex-White House ethics chief: Trump just admitted filing false financial disclosure | TheHill
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Quote:Will a porn star help to bring down a president? Stormy Daniels’ lawyer thinks so. “Ultimately, he is going to be forced to resign,” said Michael Avenatti, the attorney for the adult film actor who says she had an affair with Donald Trump and was paid by Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, to keep it quiet. “I don’t know how he will ultimately spin his departure, but I firmly believe there is going to be too much evidence of wrongdoing by him and those around him for him to be able to survive the balance of his term.”
'Trump's going to be forced to resign': Stormy Daniels' lawyer predicts a fall | US news | The Guardian
And what we've seen of this Avenatti guy he seems to be a sharp cookie..
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