When Trump University first opened its doors, it promised to teach its students all of Republican Donald Trump’s secrets to success in the real estate market. Although the school offered no credits and no degree, it called itself a “university,” and promised to make its students richer than they’d ever have dreamed.
Enough people fell for the pitch, and paid out thousands of dollars for information which many now say was useless. Several lawsuits are pending, including class action suits, and other lawsuits from the States of New York, California, and Florida.
The judge in the class action suits recently ordered the University to release all internal documents related to how the University was run. Those documents were released in the past two days.
RawStory reported information revealed in the documents from the so-called “university.” One of the most shocking findings was that the staff was instructed not to let students get away just because they couldn’t afford to pay the outrageous tuition.
Instead, those staff members were told to pressure the prospective learners into getting the money from somewhere.
#TrumpUniversity sellers are expected to "Master The Art Of Persuasion." pic.twitter.com/8iVTbfA1Xu
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) May 31, 2016
Some of the most damning information revealed that students were asked to reveal their savings, including any retirement savings that they may have.
Obviously, the intention was to get these people to completely burn through their life savings to pay for Trump’s tricks.
Trump's scam Trump University trained sales people to figure out how much people had in retirement savings (!) pic.twitter.com/6ls0LmC2V7
— Pat Dennis (@patdennis) May 31, 2016
The people who are bringing suit against Trump claim that the entire fake “university” was a big scam. They claim they were lured in by one free class that advertised a three-day workshop for almost $1,500.
That workshop would give some limited information, but would promise more if you took a longer course, and so on.
It may be difficult to feel sorry for people who fell for such an obvious ploy, but as you’ll see in the video below, Trump is a master at playing on people’s fear and greed. He promises that it will be easy to get out of debt.
He assures his listeners that they absolutely will become rich beyond their wildest dreams.
It was a huge outrageous lie, of course. Just another way for Donald J. Trump to scam the suckers who fall for his shiny fake image of greatness.
Con artists have used similar ploys to squeeze money out of a gullible public since the days of patent medicines.
We can only hope that the lawsuits will shine a light on Trump’s immoral and illegal activities before the November election.
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