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Classes students could take at Trump University.
"Being A Rich Douche 101"
"Advanced Comb Overs"
"US/Mexican Border Architecture"
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Sarah Palin graduated from Donald Trump University as valedictorian.
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This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, foul mouthed front runner Donald Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud.
It seems that Trump University was a $60,000 per person fraud.
The plaintiffs, former students at Trump University, allege they were misled into maxing out their credit cards and paying up to $60,000 in fees for seminars in hotel ballrooms and “mentoring” by Trump’s “hand-picked” real estate experts.
Trump on the witness stand? That’ll be yuuuuugh.
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Great!!...I hope they get his stupid lying butt...and throw him in jail.
He cheated again...(no not one of his wives, but he did that too) but the students who signed up for his make believe university, where he committed fraud once again and stole their money.
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Is Chump University anything like Clown College?
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"We (Trump University) have an ‘A’ from the Better Business Bureau." — Donald Trump on Sunday, February 28th, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press"
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It wasn’t a real university -- and had to change its name to Trump Entrepreneur Institute because of that. It was largely a seminar program that promised to teach its students the real estate secrets that turned Trump into a billionaire. With some participants paying as much as $35,000, the project drew investigations and lawsuits in at least three states.
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The university registered as a private company in New York in October 2004 and largely shut down by 2011. When NBC host Chuck Todd raised issues with the university, Trump defended the program, noting that nearly all the students (except the gay guys) thought it was "great."
Of course they thought it was great.
Here's a group photo of the faculty.
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Trump: "We have an A from the Better Business Bureau."
According to the Better Business Bureau website, the Trump Entrepreneur Institute has no rating.
The website explained, "This business has no rating because BBB has information indicating it is out of business."
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks: "When the school was operational it was rated A."
Katherine Hutt, director of communications for the Council of Better Business Bureaus, said that as a matter of policy, they don’t provide any ratings from previous years. But the organization issued a statement that "Over the years, the company’s BBB rating has fluctuated between an A+ and a D-."
The bureau might have given Trump University a top grade, but there’s no shortage of news articles saying the Better Business Bureau gave the Trump program a D-minus rating in 2010.
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Trump said about his entrepreneur institute that "we have an ‘A’ from the Better Business Bureau." Literally speaking, that is inaccurate.
The Better Business Bureau gives the program no rating today because it’s no longer a going concern.
Trump University had an A at some point. The Better Business Bureau doesn't release details of its past ratings, but it did say Trump's program had ratings that ranged from A+ to D-.
What we do know, from several published reports, is that the university had a D from 2009 to 2011.
Trump’s claim is literally wrong and also ignores the university’s lower Better Business Bureau scores.
We rate it False.
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