“Neither Judge Curiel’s ethnicity nor the fact that we crossed paths as prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office well over a decade ago is to blame” for Trump’s actions, Forge told the Journal.
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During his 2012 confirmation hearing to be a federal judge in California’s southern district, Gonzalo Curiel said his parents immigrated to the United States with a dream of providing their children opportunities. Then again, most folks aren’t Donald Trump.
The unsealed documents reveal allegations the now-defunct business preyed on the uneducated and misled consumers with aggressive marketing that amounted to fraud.
That was the premise of Trump University, Donald Trump’s for-profit education company that ran a series of real estate seminars from 2005 to 2010. “It’s an inherent conflict of interest”. “Be sure to congratulate the buyer, shake hands, and make eye contact”, it explained, telling the marketers that they are “not doing any favor by letting someone use lack of money as an excuse” not to sign up.
In an interview Wednesday night, Raul Curiel, 67, said Trump’s attacks on his brother are unfounded.
Some people who bought into Trump University ended up paying up to almost $35,000 for what was purported to be private mentoring with supposed real estate experts – some of whom Trump himself later admitted were unqualified.
He added, “See they don’t say it: I want Japan and Germany and Saudi Arabia and South Korea and numerous North Atlantic Treaty Organisation states, nations, they owe us tremendously, we’re taking care of all those people and what I want them to do is pay up”.
As for whether the state can prove it, Schneiderman said, “We’re going to get more information when we get to the damages phase of the trial”. Another manual boasts, “The Trump University Team is truly the best of the best, however Retreat & Special Events Team Members are the crème de la crème of the best of the best”.
On “Good Morning America” Thursday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is leading one of the three pending cases against Trump University called it “a fraud from beginning to end”.
Trump’s camp rejects the class action suits’ claims as “baseless”.
Trump University also created a script to attract customers.
Trump has previously branded Curiel a “hater”, accusing him of having a vendetta against him because of his immigration policy.
As Trump steamrolled through the GOP primary, some of his rivals raised Trump University as a liability for the businessman and at least five different outside groups mentioned the business in attack ads. The prominent Clinton supporter insisted to co-host George Stephanopoulos (who is also a notorious Clinton Foundation donor) that the case was “not political!”
Schneiderman alleges that while Trump University was pitched to applicants as a way of learning about real estate from the business mogul himself, Trump never actually met with the course instructors and did not participate in writing the curriculum.
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The order came in response to a request by The Washington Post, which argued that Trump’s presidential bid made the documents a matter of public interest. He said he had no problem with presidential candidates criticizing judges, but “there’s a line between disagreement and sort of throwing the judiciary under the bus that I think is at issue here”.
