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nationalreview.com/corner/432010/trump-university-scam
  1. It was never a university in the first place.
  2. Recruitment was bait and switch.
  3. Promises of access to ‘hard money lenders’ were empty.
  4. The playbook exposes the scam of the kind of university whose admission requirements centered on being PAID IN FULL.
Snake oil salesmen have always been a big part of American business, and that tradition continues with Trump.
 
Tablefor9 said:
The last two terms may be evidence to the contrary.
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Funny thing is, the people who will vote for Trump are the ones who didn’t vote for Obama, or who have been hugely disappointed by Obama.
 
Here’s a valuable endorsement for Trump :rolleyes:
Donald Trump received a vote of confidence on Saturday from Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France’s Front National who in the past has said the Nazi occupation was not “particularly inhumane” and suggested Ebola could solve Europe’s “immigration problem”.
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“If I were American, I would vote Donald Trump,” Le Pen tweeted on Saturday about the Republican frontrunner for president. “But may God protect him!”
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theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/jean-marie-le-pen-endorses-donald-trump
 
Rubio only has 1 less delegate than Cruz right now according to what I’ve seen tallied
 
Marco Rubio should have gone after Trump before Iowa started. The fact that Rubio has still not won a state, and Cruz has. Has already affected his campaign. And it doesn’t look to great for him on Super Tuesday. Maybe he will win Minnesota.
 
What a Donald Trump presidency might actually look like
But the president has no power to impose taxes, and retaliatory tariffs can only be applied in specific circumstances defined by complex laws and regulations. Congress has rejected far milder proposals to retaliate against companies that move manufacturing jobs overseas. Republicans in particular have opposed such ideas, which might preserve thousands of manufacturing jobs, but would also immediately and sharply raise costs for millions of U.S. consumers.
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That example points to a problem that could quickly trouble a Trump presidency.
“You have to tell people ‘no’ all the time” in government, said Rob Stutzman, a Sacramento-based political consultant who worked as a top advisor to another larger-than-life figure, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and who backs Rubio. “It ultimately is a business where you disappoint people.”
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That fact hits all presidents, eroding their popularly over time, but it might particularly affect Trump because he has built his campaign around personal dynamism and promises that few think are possible to fulfill.
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“There’s never going to be a wall. Mexico is not paying for anything. Apple’s not building iPhones in the United States,” said Stutzman. “My guess is he’ll hire very well — hire very capable people — and he’ll take their counsel, but then I think he finds himself in a difficult position of trying to sustain political capital because he’ll have to start explaining why he can’t.”
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A very good article…
 
SuperLuigi said:
Hopefully, Cruz will get the nomination before then.
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I would love to see that 👍
I know this is wishfull thinking and will not happen but if Rubio would accept that based on the polls, especially in his own state of florida, he has little to no chance of winning, he is helping trump win by splitting votes with cruz, therefore out of love for country he should drop out and endorse cruz before super Tuesday. Cruz would get all 155 delegates from texas with over 50% of the vote, plus beat trump almost everywhere else, trump would be thumped.
 
This is kind of disturbing:
The Anti-Defamation League has asked Trump to condemn ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who urged his sympathizers to vote for the billionaire last week.
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On Friday, Trump told reporters that he disavows the endorsement – but he’s evasive two days later when Tapper asks him whether he does in fact condemn Duke and the KKK.
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“I don’t know anything about David Duke, I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists,” Trump says. “I know nothing about David Duke, I know nothing about white supremacists.”
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theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/feb/28/trump-cruz-rubio-sanders-super-tuesday-campaign-live

For someone who wants to be president, Trump’s awfully dumb if he doesn’t know anything about the KKK and white supremacists.
 
queenofheartscv said:
People on the street will know nothing about David Duke, either.
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But we’re not talking about the average person on the street. We’re talking about someone who should be knowledgeable enough to be president. The average American probably doesn’t know much about foreign affairs, either, but we better hope that our president does.
 
It’s very disturbing how little Trump knows of these things. He’s either ignorant or intentionally misleading people. Either option is disturbing.
 
Thorolfr said:
This is kind of disturbing:

theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/feb/28/trump-cruz-rubio-sanders-super-tuesday-campaign-live

For someone who wants to be president, Trump’s awfully dumb if he doesn’t know anything about the KKK and white supremacists.
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Of course he knows KKK and white supremacists, what he didn’t know was what those had to do with his campaign. People try to find anything and everything even remotely dirty about him. Whether these people may or may not have endorsed Trump has nothing to do with his campaign and there is no reason he should care, either.

I’m disturbed by how easily people are disturbed.

Actually I’m not. 🙂
 
grotto said:
This “fraud case” isn’t deserving of the court’s time and certainly isn’t worth being a campaign issue. Just some opportunists that try to get a settlement from their target - that doesn’t work so they continue to the court.
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queenofheartscv said:
If people enroll in a school like trump university and then can’t reap satisfactory financial gain, they understandably get mad and want to sue in order to get some mo.etary payback.
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I hope you are aware that this is New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman suing Trump University. It’s not a bunch of annoyed customers suing. The NY AG is the most powerful state AG in the country, mainly because most of the large-scale financial crimes fall under NY jurisdiction. He doesn’t bring frivolous lawsuits. Most AGs bring lawsuits only when they can win (the federal government does the same, which is why they win something like 97% of the time). When AGs bring a lawsuit, there is very high likelihood that they are going to win because they’ve usually got the defendants on the facts. That’s why the defendants usually settle.

That reality is why this is highly relevant to the political race. I acknowledge that the defendants have not yet been found guilty and you won’t see me jumping to that conclusion. But it’s quite fair to raise it as a concern, given the strong likelihood that the court’s ruling will come down against Trump.

To dismiss this as nothing is far more off from the reality of the legal situation than to automatically assume he’s guilty (both are wrong).
 
I have merged a number of threads about members of the GOP going after Donald Trump for one thing or another.
 
Theo520 said:
I still prefer someone who’s actually hired and managed people before,
POTUS has >4million employees
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Well argued. We just tried the Senator who never ran anything route. Hasn’t worked out too well
 
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