Trump varsity

Presidential candidate Donald Trump may be ahead in the polls as he moves toward the Republican nomination, but the billionaire businessman was dealt a legal setback this week with a state appellate court ruling that allows New York's attorney general to proceed in his fraud case against the GOP front-runner. Whatever result is reached in those cases, it's clear that Trump "University" was at least, in layperson's terms, a ripoff-nothing more than a series of real-estate seminars of limited usefulness that ended by pressuring "students" to take another expensive seminar. "Too many years", he answered more than a dozen times. Further, "Trump University provided no degrees, no credits, no licenses, nor anything else of marketable value to student-victims".

On the campaign trail, Trump does not seem to know the names of the "smartest people in America" who he "has lined up" to help him if he is elected president.

Asked whether Trump stood by statements including "Bill Clinton was a great president", Trump initially equivocated.

"People were lured in with the idea they were going to learn from Mr. Trump and in fact they were hiring instructors", Schneiderman said.

He claimed the vast majority of student's had been satisfied by their experience.

"This is the equivalent of putting up a sign that says Trump Hospital, when it's not, and the people in it aren't nurses and doctors", he told Cuomo. Instructors, some of whom were presented as "Donald Trump's personal real estate coaches", frequently insinuated that Trump himself was likely to make an appearance during the three-day seminar. Makaeff's lawyer said that even after Trump's defamation suit was dismissed, her client has lived in fear of financial ruin, and that "she still has great trepidation about retaliation".

"Did you do anything personally to confirm the expertise of any of the Trump University mentors?" In a deposition, Sexton described this as "an oversight", and something that he and Trump "forgot" about.

"No, I didn't", he responded.

Most ominously for Trump, plaintiff Art Cohen accuses him of "a pattern of racketeering activity" under 18 U.S. Code § 1962, the notorious RICO statute, normally deployed against the Mafia and other organized-crime syndicates.

In addition, attack ads produced by American Future Fund have been running on television.

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When plaintiffs' attorney Jason Forge asked Trump to identify "instructors" that he'd "hand-picked", the usually locquacious Trump was at a loss for words. Trump, after the debate, tweeted an image of an "A" rating for the "Trump Entrepreneur Institute," which is what Trump University changed its name to sometime in 2010 or thereafter. He said it was a normal part of doing business, comparable to what a retailer like the Home Shopping Network has to pay.

"With respect, we went back and looked at this", Kelly said.

Students were routinely stiffed on refunds that were promised under Trump University's "money-back guarantee".

"I'll tell you about the school". Trump was then required to answer those questions under oath.

The suit notes that "In January of 2010, the Better Business Bureau gave Trump University a D-minus rating". "How convenient to say that the surveys filled out at the time of the event did not reflect his true feelings, especially when a refund was not requested until 2011", Trump's lawyer's response to the Schneiderman suit states.

Schneiderman alleges some 600 New Yorkers and 5,000 people nationwide fell for the pitch, which the AG characterized as a classic bait-and-switch operation.

"This is the longest deposition I've ever done in terms of no break", Trump complains at one point during the questioning.