THE TRUMP UNIVERSITY SCAM

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Patterico :

2/26/2016

THE TRUMP UNIVERSITY SCAM

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:11 pm

 

Charles C. W. Cooke

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Wow. Trump University was a straight-up scam. No nicer way of putting it. Scam. Con. Scheme.http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432010/trump-university-scam …

4:35 PM - 26 Feb 2016

The article linked by Charles C.W. Cooke in the above thread has to be read to be believed. The New York Attorney General once said of Trump University: ““We started looking at Trump University and discovered that it was a classic bait-and-switch scheme. It was a scam, starting with the fact that it was not a university.” The piece quotes one lawsuit against Trump as saying:

 

The free seminars were the first step in a bait and switch to induce prospective students to enroll in increasingly expensive seminars starting with the three-day $1495 seminar and ultimately one of respondents’ advanced seminars such as the “Gold Elite” program costing $35,000.

 

At the “free” 90-minute introductory seminars to which Trump University advertisements and solicitations invited prospective students, Trump University instructors engaged in a methodical, systematic series of misrepresentations designed to convince students to sign up for the Trump University three-day seminar at a cost of $1495.

 

Well, but a lawsuit can allege anything, right? Except that The Atlantic got hold of the “university” playbook and wrote a piece about it in March 2014. That piece, to me, shows that the allegations of the lawsuit had merit: snip