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malaise

(267,822 posts)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 09:22 PM Jun 2016

Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons

Rachel is exposing it - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah - another scam!!
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But Mr. Trump also lent his name, and his credibility, to a seminar business he did not own, which was branded the Trump Institute. Its operators rented out hotel ballrooms across the country and invited people to pay up to $2,000 to come hear Mr. Trump’s “wealth-creating secrets and strategies.”

And its customers had ample reason to ask whether they, too, had been deceived.

As with Trump University, the Trump Institute promised falsely that its teachers would be handpicked by Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump did little, interviews show, besides appear in an infomercial — one that promised customers access to his vast accumulated knowledge. “I put all of my concepts that have worked so well for me, new and old, into our seminar,” he said in the 2005 video, adding, “I’m teaching what I’ve learned.”


Reality fell far short. In fact, the institute was run by a couple who had run afoul of regulators in dozens of states and had been dogged by accusations of deceptive business practices and fraud for decades. Similar complaints soon emerged about the Trump Institute.

Yet there was an even more fundamental deceit to the business, unreported until now: Extensive portions of the materials that students received after paying their seminar fees, supposedly containing Mr. Trump’s special wisdom, had been plagiarized from an obscure real estate manual published a decade earlier.

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- can you imagine this Con artist in the WH???

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Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons (Original Post) malaise Jun 2016 OP
And yet the media will ignore these truths about Trump stopbush Jun 2016 #1

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
1. And yet the media will ignore these truths about Trump
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 09:29 PM
Jun 2016

will claiming Hillary can't be trusted based on decades of lies told about her by the RWNM.

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