The program didn’t have to teach much about real estate, Schnackenberg says, because in reality each of Trump University’s seminars was primarily focused on convincing customers to buy the next tier of the product.
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“This was a fraud from top to bottom”. He said some records had “mistakenly” been released Friday, when he ordered some documents made public. He has partnered with Trump on the sales and promoted the drink at Trump golf courses, and it is sold at Trump Tower Cafe, according to his social media accounts.
Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton are seen at victory rallies following the NY primaries on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.
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Asked about Trump’s efforts to downplay the case, Schneiderman called it “hugely important” for the way it cast Trump as “someone who is absolutely shameless in his willingness to lie to people”.
It reads like a Donald Trump campaign speech.
“Absolutely not, from the bottom of my heart”, Hoban said.
“They share three characteristics: they are simple, familiar and dramatic”.
He said, “I think Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself”. “People love recognition and attention”.
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Elsewhere in the playbooks, Trump team members were advised to “close the deal” after having one-on-one sessions with potential students and to push Trump University’s most expensive package – Gold Elite for $34,995 – when feasible. They were unsealed as part of a lawsuit against Trump University brought by former customers saying they were defrauded by the school.
It tells employees to identify “buyers” by determining students’ assets and ranking them in descending order.
And while advertising materials suggested that Trump personally selected the instructors leading his courses, as his own testimony revealed back in March, he had never met any of them.
“Based upon my personal experience and employment, I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money”, he said.
Together the cases are represent the interests of thousands of former Trump University students. In fact, the speakers then told students to use their increased credit limits to purchase the next level of Trump University.
A federal judge on Tuesday unsealed 381 pages of documents detailing the for-profit real estate program.
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According to testimony from former employees, Trump University was less concerned with providing its students with the tools they needed to excel in the real estate world than it was with duping them into spending all their savings and going into massive debt.
