Trump University Was a Scam Just Like the Trump Campaign
My whole life Ive been greedy, greedy, greedy, Donald Trump has said. Ive grabbed all the money I could get. Im so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States. This is his pitch to the public not that he is a saint, but a shrewd and effective businessman who is now eager to apply his talents to the public good, to make his success ours. There are innumerable flaws in Trumps proposal, but perhaps the most glaring and easily understood is that Trump has made this same promise before. It was the pitch behind Trump University the great business genius will share his knowledge with you, helping you become rich. And Trump University was a total scam.
The Trump University scam was a way to prey on the vulnerability of economic strivers. The university published advertisements, which Trump personally approved, promising that its courses would somehow enable students to unlock vast wealth through the housing market. The ads varied, depending on conditions at the moment in 2007, it used the housing boom as evidence of the potential for wealth. By 2008, it was using the housing bust as evidence of the same. (Trump dismissed fears of the housing bubble before it burst.)
Images for Trump's ads here were found by BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/trump-university-a-scam-just-like-trump-campaign.html
Trump is a Con man!