Move over, ‘Trump U,’ the new scandal is the ‘Trump Institute’

[CaptainSensible]

Source: Rachel Maddow Show Blog - MSNBC

The scandal surrounding “Trump University” is already an albatross for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The entire enterprise has been accused of being a con job, ripping off “students” who trusted the developer’s name.

But as it turns out, there’s a new, related controversy surrounding the “Trump Institute,” which is something else. The New York Times reports today that the Republican candidate “lent his name, and his credibility” to this seminar business, which offered Trump’s “wealth-creating secrets and strategies” for up to $2,000.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/move-over-trump-u-the-new-scandal-the-trump-institute?cid=sm_fb_maddow

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Who wants to bet TRUMP ends up convicted on Federal fraud charges before Nov 8?

[bluestateguy]

1. Will Rachel do a 20 minute opening monologue about this?

But only get to the point by the 17th minute?

[rug]

4. She will start with Plato's Academy, rest at the University of Bologna, and end up with trump.

Then, with a serious face, she will turn it over to her guest, finally thanking him or her with a modified namaste when they're done.

[George II]

14. You left out closing by drawing a bunch of circles on her script.

[rug]

15. Crap! I left out the rustling papers sound too.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

5. *SNICKER* n/t

[DrToast]

11. LOL...don't forget....

Repeat herself 47 times along the way.

By the way, I do like her, but she talks down to her audience.

[PatSeg]

19. I love Rachel

but the redundancy is getting really annoying. I like a little background material here and there, but there are many times when I just wish she'd get to the point. Yes, it does feel like she is talking down to her audience, like she is an elementary school teacher.

[griloco]

24. Ya gotta appeal to Fox viewers, doncha know. (wink,wink)

[randome]

31. You guys are good.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[TeamPooka]

2. popping...

ready!

[SummerSnow]

3. Need to give this scandal a good name...

' Trumpstitute'? Wait that sounds like prostitute

'TrUniversity? Trumpiversity?

[drm604]

13. Why is it sounding like a prostitute a bad thing?

Trumpstitute is perfect.

[jmowreader]

21. STSDTD

Same Trump shit, different Trump day.

The first line in Hillary's inaugural address will be "marshals, hold that man."

[Scarsdale]

28. tRump Institute for the Criminally Insane

THAT has a ring of truth to it. Does he give tips on how to file multiple bankruptcies, and still come out ahead of the game? Flim-flam man extrordinaire! Maybe $carah PayMe could start HER own school, on grifting. Since her entire family is unemployed, yet flying to Hawaii, with expensive purses etc. surely she has tips for the workers among us?

[Botany]

6. The man is a con man

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027966701

Trump ocean view condos

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027874798

The Trump network

[dembotoz]

22. i see this as worse than trump institute

[Botany]

23. The list keeps growing

The Trump Network, The Trump institute, Trump Ocean view condos, & Trump University ....

What do they all have in common? D. Trump made money, they were scams, people
had their money taken and got little if nothing in return, and they all had the "Trump
name" on them.

[griloco]

25. Didn't Trump sue them too?

[olddad56]

7. That is the same thing Trump University did.

this is nothing new.

[Shrike47]

8. No chance he would be prosecuted/convicted on this one. Just confirms he's a fraud.

The steaks weren't very good, but at least they were cheaper.

[Martin Eden]

9. Shouldn't that be the "Trump Institution ..."

... for the Pathologically Gullible"?

[PoliticAverse]

10. "Who wants to bet TRUMP ends up convicted" - Trump seems to have lawyers on 24/7 retainer...

Don't bet the farm on that happening.

And I still think that the "Trump Network" vitamin marketing business was worse.

[riversedge]

12. NYT: Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons

Good article here also. Trump is not only a LIAR--he is a thief!


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur



Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons

By JONATHAN MARTINJUNE 29, 2016


...........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.................




An Example of the Copied Text

At least 20 pages of the Trump Institute instructional book were copied
entirely or in large part from a book in a set titled “Real Estate Mastery
System.” Highlighted here is an example of some of what was duplicated.
From the book published first in 1995 by Success magazine




Real Estate Mastery System: Mortgage and Finance, Success magazine

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. He did not "lend" his name

He SOLD it. If they paid him enough, there would be Trump Anal Lube at your local adult novelties store.

[NewJeffCT]

17. Trump won't be convicted

he's alleged to be a billionaire, so can afford enough legal support to not get convicted, or to delay it out past the election. As my Dad used to say, you're innocent as long as your money holds out.

[Yavin4]

18. A truly wealthy person would not get involved in such nonsense. n/t

[randome]

32. It's like Obama getting out of office and deciding he wants to sell dog-racing tip sheets.

Trump has no class whatsoever. His public meltdown will be both glorious and disturbing.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. His supporters don't CARE.....

They like screaming "Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!" as they beat down and stomp on minorities.

[griloco]

26. Trump's New York Values-- a blend of Bernie Madoff and Willie Sutton

[L. Coyote]

29. Isn't plagiarism a highly respected practice in business? And a class in Business schools?

Kidding!

[Krasniman]

30. Who wants to bet TRUMP ends up convicted on Federal fraud charges before Nov 8?

you mean "indicted," no charges have been filed yet...and even if they were, any trial would be at least 12 months away.