“We look forward to demonstrating in a court of law that Donald Trump and his sham for-profit college defrauded more than 5,000 consumers out of millions of dollars”, Schneiderman said in a statement.
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Numerous “handpicked” instructors have testified that they have never met Trump.
One instructor was a convicted felon, and others had no real estate experience. A direct mail solicitation proclaimed, “In just 90 minutes, my hand-picked instructors will share my techniques, which took my entire career to develop”. In 2011, the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into the program, and filed a lawsuit against it and Trump in 2013.
She added that “Trump University was a professionally run company which provided students with a valuable and substantive education and the tools to succeed in business and real estate”.
According to the decision, in 2005 Sexton claimed they would join their operation with one in DE and not hold Trump University sessions in NY, but that didn’t happen, so in 2010 the State Education Department demanded that they remove the word “University” from the name.
“To be honest, I wouldn’t have had the time to interview everybody because my business is too big”, he said. Though Trump has cast himself as a meticulous businessman, the transcripts sometimes showed he was unaware or uncaring about problems at Trump University.
Trump and his people have pushed the 98% narrative so aggressively that they established a website for it, 98percentapproval.com, where the surveys are posted.
“I don’t know because, you know, it depends on the definition of what that means, handpicked”, he said. In a memorandum to the court submitted just one week ago, Trump University’s attorneys reference “instructors, who were selected based on Mr. Trump’s criteria and input”. That is excepting, of course, the three “Trump Elite Packages” that followed: the $9,995 Bronze Elite program; the $19,495 Silver Elite program; and the $34,995 Gold Elite program. They were, however, effective high pressure salespeople. Instead, students got the chance to take a photograph with a life-size cutout photo of the billionaire developer.
A spokesperson for the Trump Organization declined to tell CNN what percentage of students received a refund.
“The truth about Trump University?” In 1981, the building was secretly purchased by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, a dictator and kleptocrat, who, with his wife, made major investments in several Manhattan buildings, through the developers Joseph and Ralph Bernstein, using money pilfered from the nation’s treasury.
“It’s been going for five years”, Kelly shot back.
Donald Trump has asserted that Mexico is intentionally sending rapists across the southern border, that thousands of Muslims celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey, that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by black people, that an American general ended a terrorist uprising by executing Muslims with bullets dipped in pig’s blood, and that Barack Obama wasn’t born in America. Trump brought up Curiel’s Hispanic heritage. The Trump Building “towers over the city as a reminder of New York’s global import”.
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Trump is already slated to be a witness in a federal civil case brought by students in California, and he recently gave depositions in a second federal case.
