Trump claimed Trump U was a charity

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The whole thing began with Donald Trump portraying himself as a philanthropist and promising to donate proceeds to charity.

Records indicate that Trump University collected approximately $40 million from its students — who included veterans, retired police officers and teachers — and that Trump personally received approximately $5 million of it, despite his claim that he started Trump University as a charitable venture.

But the promised charitable contributions weren’t made.

The veterans fundraiser? Well, yes.

But it turns out Trump did much the same thing with another of his undertakings in the news: Trump University.

Trump’s failure to fork over promised charitable contributions is a pattern.




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Trump portrayed himself as an altruist when he rolled out Trump University in 2005, saying it was about his “legacy as an educator” and “access for all” and his desire to “set an example for others to follow.”


A legal complaint against him in New York charges that Trump University claimed it was “solely for philanthropic purposes” and that speakers said students’ payments would not go to Trump.




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Leonthecat said:
It was a scam.
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A sales pitch by Trump University “lecturer” James Harris, distributed by Trump University executives, said Trump “only wants to leave a legacy. . . . He does not need your $1,500.”



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Will one of the world’s leading democracies elect as its President a businessman who founded and operated a for-profit learning annex that some of its own employees regarded as a giant rip-off, and that the highest legal officer in New York State has described as a classic bait-and-switch scheme?



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Back in 2013, when the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s Attorney General, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and some of his associates, the complaint, which is also worth reading in full, made perfectly clear what sort of organization it was targeting.

Despite Trump University’s claim that it offered “graduate programs, post graduate programs, doctorate programs,” it wasn’t a university at all. It was a company that purported to be selling Trump’s secret insights into how to make money in real estate.

From the time Trump University began operating, in 2005, the A.G.’s office repeatedly warned the company that it was breaking the law by calling itself a university. (In New York State, universities have to obtain a state charter.)


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In a 2013 interview with ABC News and a deposition last December,Trump offered two very different answers about how personally involved he was with hiring at his now-closed Trump University.

The University is the subject of three pending lawsuits in California and New York where plaintiffs have accused Trump University of being a sham.

During the interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Trump was asked if he “hand picked the instructors” for his university.

"I looked at every resume. I met with some people,” he said. “I didn't meet with everybody. It's not my main business. I did this to help people.”

Yet during the December 2015 deposition connected with one of these pending cases, Trump changed his tune.

"I don't know the people. I wasn't running it. I don't know the people,” Trump responded when asked who the instructors at Trump University were or if they were qualified. "I don't know that because I was not running it. I don't know who the people are.” Later on in that same deposition, Trump was asked about the selection process.

"You didn’t personally select these instructors, correct?” he was asked. Trump responded: “No.” Asked again by counsel "That’s correct?” He responded: "That is correct.”



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In another deposition, this January, Trump gave another answer regarding the hiring.

"I see resumes, but mostly that was up to Michael Sexton, who was the president who ran Trump University."



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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is leading one of the three pending cases against Trump University called it “a fraud from beginning to end.”

“We have laws against running an illegal, unlicensed university. This never was a university. The fraud started with the name of the organization,” he said.

Trump’s comments in the public arena, on several occasions, differ from what he said under oath.

Trump has boasted that he has “one of the all-time great memories” both in interviews and statements, telling the Hollywood Reporter just last week, "“I have one of the great memories of all time.”

In a promotional video for Trump University, Trump himself said of the University’s instructors: “We are going to have the best of the best…and these people that are handpicked by me."

However, during the December deposition, he repeatedly said he could not remember details about hiring decisions. When asked if he could remember a single instructor, Trump responded, "You'd have to give me a list.· You'd have to show me the list.· I actually went – I would go and just walk in and just stand in the back of the room on occasion just to see how they were doing, but it's been so many years, I wouldn't be able to do that.”

And then, when given the name “Johnny Harris” and asked if the person is a student, instructor or neither, Trump responded, “Too many years”.

He added, when given three other names, "It sounds very familiar.· Names -- the names sound familiar, just too many years.”



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Trump maintained that he never wanted to settle the case.

"I actually thought that people were very happy at the school. I was very surprised. That’s why I didn't settle this case, which I could have settled very easily a long time ago,” he said during the deposition.

And in the 2013 interview with Stephanopoulos, Trump said, "I could have settled this very easily with them. They wanted to settle it. I didn't want, I…No, I don't wanna settle this at all."

However Schneiderman, speaking on MSNBC Thursday morning, disputed that Trump’s legal team never offered to settle.

“He did offer to settle," he said. “ He settles cases all the time."



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