President Trump

[Synergy]

Trump's a businessman who knows how to get down to brass tacks and he'll make just as brilliant a diplomat.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

A federal judge has unsealed 381 pages of documents relating to Donald Trump’s controversial Trump University for-profit real estate program, which became public Tuesday afternoon as part of a lawsuit seeking damages and accusing the company of fraud.

The documents amount to the "playbooks" used by the company in convincing prospective students to join the program, which promised real estate training blessed by Trump himself. But it soon found itself embroiled in controversy, with a number of students claiming they had been misled.

Those playbooks show that prospective students were encouraged to pay for the program, which could cost up to $35,000, using “other people’s money.”

“We teach the technique of using OPM ... other people’s money,” the sales script reads in a sample conversation between a staffer and an interested student.

“Most students who are invited to this program use established lines of credit, like a credit card, utilizing the bank’s money, OPM, to handle their tuition. I’m not talking about tens of thousands of dollars, but on the other hand, not a couple of hundred dollars either.”

The most expensive package is the $34,995 "Gold Elite" package.

The script goes on to tell students they will be “working with our experts to become profitable in the shortest amount of time.”

Trump’s reputation as a real estate dynamo was an integral part of the initial sales pitch, as employees touted “The Trump Way.”

“Is everything Donald Trump does the BEST?” a salesman would ask. “He wouldn’t put his name on this if it wasn’t right?”

But while Trump had previously claimed he specifically picked his instructors, he admitted in depositions that he was not familiar with the names of any of those instructors and did not help to select them, according to CNN.

The takeaway for the program's “multi-family and commercial real estate investment retreat” also tells customers to “take full advantage of tax breaks and other financial shelters, allowing you to maximize your profits.” That's a strategy Trump himself has employed, even as he continues to resist releasing his tax returns in his presidential campaign.

Trump faces a handful of lawsuits relating to the Trump University classes, which many students have panned as a farce, telling media organizations they left the program with little valuable advice and mountains of debt.

Trump’s political adversaries have seized on the controversy surrounding his real estate classes. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz lambasted Trump on the issue during the Republican primary, while Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has already begun to use the issue against the presumptive GOP nominee.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been a vocal critic of the program and has repeatedly panned it as fraud, suing the company back in 2013 for millions in restitution.

Trump University faced a handful of legal challenges, as well as scrutiny from the New York Department of Education, before it shut down in 2011.

But Trump has trumpeted his innocence, releasing reviews from students lauding the courses and arguing that he won't settle because he'll be vindicated in court.

Lawyers for the billionaire businessman had argued to keep the documents secret after a request by The Washington Post to turn the documents over to the public. But Judge Gonzalo Curiel swatted their arguments down on Friday, asserting that the defense had not met the bar to keep the documents out of the public eye.

He also added that Trump’s station as the GOP standard-bearer, as well as the fact that he’s “placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue,” bolstered the argument to make the documents public.

Trump has launched a tirade against Curiel in the days before the release of the documents. He chided the judge as a “hater” and “very hostile” on the stump on Friday and has implied that he’s biased because he’s “Mexican.”

Curiel is of Hispanic heritage but was born in Indiana.

The release of the documents came hours after Trump held a press conference on his donations to veterans groups, where he chastised the media for criticizing him on the donations. A flurry of media reports noted discrepancies in the money promised by Trump and the money he actually sent to groups.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... university

[losCHUNK]

But, but, but... the news, they lie. Trump said so.

[Transient]

What a fucking scumbag, this guy is.

[Ryoki]

Read this thing yesterday on the Clinton camp having employed a team of forensic accountants to go over all of Trump's financial info, digging up any sort of dirt they come across. Supposedly they found some dynamite stuff already, but are waiting with releasing it until the time is right. Wonder what they'll come up with - and i also wonder if it'll have any effect. Short of video evidence of him fondling a child or something i don't think anything will win over his stupid, stupid supporters...

[losCHUNK]

Good source on that ?, wishful thinking ?

[seremtan]

lol, Drumpf and Shillary, neck-deep in shit, arguing over who stinks the most

[Ryoki]

Good source on that ?, wishful thinking ?

An anonymous source in the Clinton camp said the article, so take that for what it's worth. Think i came across it on salon.com but i can't seem to find it, sorry.

lol, Drumpf and Shillary, neck-deep in shit, arguing over who stinks the most

Yes

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

[seremtan]

jesus christ, what is/was Trump U - a chop shop?

[Don Carlos]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36431731

DAMN MEXICANS TAKING AMURICAN JERBS!

[Captain]

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

[losCHUNK]

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[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11860796/ec ... es-twitter

[losCHUNK]

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ouchie.

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[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Thing is, Hillary is just as bad if not worse than Donald in many ways. America has almost hit bottom which means soon (4-10 years?) it will rise again to something not so absolutely horrible.

Right?

[losCHUNK]

They can't do much worse than Bush to be fair.

[Ryoki]

Thing is, Hillary is just as bad if not worse than Donald in many ways.

Hillary is a vote for the status quo, with the added benefit of her having to adopt a few leftier positions thanks to a very stubborn mr. Sanders. Trump is voting for god knows fucking what...

Just as bad? No way.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Thing is, Hillary is just as bad if not worse than Donald in many ways.

Hillary is a vote for the status quo, with the added benefit of her having to adopt a few leftier positions thanks to a very stubborn mr. Sanders. Trump is voting for god knows fucking what...

Just as bad? No way.

Hillary is a war monger and she's also terribly racist (see her support for Bill's 1994 crime bill, her use of the term super-predator at the time etc.) She's also a corporate tool. The status quo is not good if you live in Yemen or Afghanistan etc. or if you're black in America or if you're poor imho.

[Tsakali]

So I have nothing to worry about

[seremtan]

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lol

[AndyW]

Why vote at all if you can only choose between AIDS and Cancer?
Here in Germany things going crazy ATM... Merkel

[seremtan]

lol, Angular Jerkel

how the fuck is she still in office?

[scared?]

I'm still thinking trump is just trolling conservatives and trying to get Hillary elected... looked like a little over acting with the calling out the black guy at the rally the other day. Also how he's doubling and tripling down on the judge thing...