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First we find out that students were intimidated into giving positive reviews non-anonymously before they were allowed to receive their degrees. Then we learn that he lied that his knowledge on real estate would be in the Trump University curriculum, now we learn that he's encouraging students to commit bank fraud.
Trump University Script Tells Students to Inflate Income - ABC News
Trump Supporters' defense of this scandal thus far is that the students deserved it, because apparently "caveat emptor" is a get out of jail free card for any act, however despicable.
At least the curriculum's script is consistent with Trump's own philosophy on his net worth (in fact, it's probably the only thing he's ever been consistent about):
Donald Trump net worth: I'm worth whatever I feel - Apr. 21, 2011
So Trump is a fraud, defrauds the Trump University students, and then teaches them how to be frauds just like him. So what makes this election even worse than his usual business practices? Well, maybe it's because I know he's a fraud, and now that he's running for President there's a chance he'll defraud me in spite of my full awareness of what he is and that I don't want to get into bed with him.
A Trump University seminar presentation advised students to try and boost their credit card limit by inflating their income by $75,000, according to documents made public in federal court this week. The instruction, legal experts said, could amount to a lesson in bank fraud.
“If someone is encouraging people to make a false representation about their current income -- that might be an appropriate target for prosecution,” said John W. Moscow, former head of the Frauds Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s office.
“If the caller actually does what they were told to do, that could easily be fraud,” agreed Randall M. Fox, who served as founding Bureau Chief of New York Attorney General's Taxpayer Protection Bureau.
An undated presentation called “Fast Track to Foreclosure Investing,” offers an inside look at how the costly real estate seminars worked and includes instructions for how to increase credit card limits, presumably to enable someone with scarce resources to invest more money in foreclosed property.
“When asked for your income,” the instructor’s script reads, “take your current income and add $75,000 from your real estate enterprise.”
Trump University Script Tells Students to Inflate Income - ABC News
Trump Supporters' defense of this scandal thus far is that the students deserved it, because apparently "caveat emptor" is a get out of jail free card for any act, however despicable.
At least the curriculum's script is consistent with Trump's own philosophy on his net worth (in fact, it's probably the only thing he's ever been consistent about):
Throughout the deposition, Trump sparred with O'Brien's lawyer, Andrew Ceresney, over how the real estate tycoon determined what he was worth.
Trump: My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings, but I try.
Ceresney: Let me just understand that a little. You said your net worth goes up and down based upon your own feelings?
Trump: Yes, even my own feelings, as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day ...
Ceresney: When you publicly state a net worth number, what do you base that number on?
Trump: I would say it's my general attitude at the time that the question may be asked. And as I say, it varies.
Donald Trump net worth: I'm worth whatever I feel - Apr. 21, 2011
So Trump is a fraud, defrauds the Trump University students, and then teaches them how to be frauds just like him. So what makes this election even worse than his usual business practices? Well, maybe it's because I know he's a fraud, and now that he's running for President there's a chance he'll defraud me in spite of my full awareness of what he is and that I don't want to get into bed with him.
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