Judge acknowledges Donald Trump's attacks, unseals files in Trump U suit

[FuzzyLumpkins]

A federal judge blasted by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Friday has taken note of the fact that Trump isn't happy with the way the judge is handling lawsuits over alleged fraud by the Trump University real estate seminar program.

Just hours after Trump used a campaign speech at a San Diego convention center to unleash a remarkable verbal fusillade against U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge — who also happens to be based in the same southern California city — acknowledged a much more measured fashion of the criticism Trump has aimed at the court.

"Defendant became the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race, and has placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue," Curiel said in an order unsealing a series of internal Trump University documents that Trump's lawyers asked be kept from the public.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/05/donald-trump-university-judge-unseals-files-223687#ixzz4A1EF52od

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Trash slandered Curiel as a "Mexican". Curiel born in Indiana.

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http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250910&p=8605679&viewfull=1#post8605679

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250910&p=8605679&viewfull=1#post8605679

:lol boutons the mod. Your totalitarian threads are great for your sense of accomplishment and territorial pissing but some people such as myself don't bother reading them. I felt that this topic would have legs and was threadworthy.

If you don't like it, in your own words: GFY.

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mod? I linked to an article more complete than the OP

[SnakeBoy]

:lmao

Poor boo

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:lmao

Poor boo

Wishful thinking, got anything else?

[ducks]

Blast judge now settle and blame the judge and move on

[Fabbs]

With the trial timing moved to after November, if elected does Prezidant Trump get all charges voided?

[FromWayDowntown]

With the trial timing moved to after November, if elected does Prezidant Trump get all charges voided?

I don't think being the President-elect necessarily comes with some sort of immunity from civil liability for things that occurred before being elected President.

[Fabbs]

^^If not technically legally, will the decision to pursue prosecution mysteriously go away / get *settled*?
I mean if Trump settles with the people fairly, great.
Get the feeling he is going to weasel out.

[FromWayDowntown]

^^If not technically legally, will the decision to pursue prosecution mysteriously go away / get *settled*?
I mean if Trump settles with the people fairly, great.
Get the feeling he is going to weasel out.

The case will only go away if Trump is able to convince a judge that the claims against Trump U are unmeritorious, if a jury hears the case and determines that there's no liability, or if Trump settles with the Plaintiffs.

Given the deep pocket that Trump represents, the Plaintiffs' lawyers are certainly not likely to settle their case for pennies on the dollar at this point, particularly if they're getting favorable rulings from the court (either because they deserve them or because the judge is biased against Trump and is making decisions on that basis -- though the latter seems quite unlikely).

[Ghazi]

:lol American politics

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From all reports I've seen, Trump U was a scam that nobody benefited from except Trash himself. He lied ( surprise! ) that he personally chose the "professors".

Anybody got reports from Trump U graduates that say their "education" was completed and beneficial?

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Trump goes after judge in ‘Trump University’ case

By some measures, the controversy surrounding “Trump University” is a helpful microcosm of a much broader problem.

A group of people, impressed by Donald Trump’s purported wealth, rallied behind a high-profile endeavor, only to discover that the rhetoric was hollow and Trump couldn’t deliver on his grandiose promises.

Maybe, just maybe, there’s a parallel between this and the Republican’s presidential campaign.
The difference, of course, is that some of the students who attended the “courses” have a recourse voters lack: they’re suing “Trump University.”

the New York Republican was the namesake of a “university,” where students sometimes “max[ed] out their credit cards to pay tens of thousands of dollars for insider knowledge they believed could make them wealthy.”


Never licensed as a school, Trump University was in reality a series of real estate workshops in hotel ballrooms around the country, not unlike many other for-profit self-help or motivational seminars.

Though short-lived, it remains a thorn in Trump’s side nearly five years after its operations ceased:

In three pending lawsuits, including one in which the New York attorney general is seeking $40 million in restitution, former students allege that the enterprise bilked them out of their money with misleading advertisements.

Instead of a fast route to easy money, these Trump University students say they found generic seminars led by salesmen who pressured them to invest more cash in additional courses. The students say they didn’t learn Trump’s secrets and never received the one-on-one guidance they expected.


“He’s earned more in a day than most people do in a lifetime,” a 2009 ad, featuring Trump’s photograph, said. “He’s living a life many men and women only dream about. And now he’s ready to share – with Americans like you – the Trump process for investing in today’s once-in-a-lifetime real estate market.”

Trump attorneys have long insisted that aspiring investors learned valuable lessons with which most students were satisfied. But the Post’s article also highlighted a Texas man, Louie Liu, who said he paid “$1,495 for a three-day seminar, then felt lured into paying $24,995 for more classes, an online training program and a three-day in-person mentorship.”

He now believes that the Trump University program was a “scam.”

Another man, Bob Guillo, paid nearly $35,000 for the “Trump Gold Elite package,” which amounted to very little. “I really felt stupid that I was scammed by Trump,” Guillo said.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-goes-after-judge-trump-university-case?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Trash is a con man, a liar, he won't, and can't deliver all his shit that you simpleton, conned mofos have swallowed.

People are fucking stupid. And stupid, ignorant people, along with dumbed-down-by-Bible-humping cretins are the Repug base.

[MultiTroll]

Anybody got reports from Trump U graduates that say their "education" was completed and beneficial?Payments are being made to line up false witnesses. You know that has got to be happening. Or perhaps with his team of experts he foresaw this all along, and chose a handful of graduates who actually got some of what he promised.

Wonder how many ex managers and students are going to be called? :lmao
Trump is like Monty Burns in court no doubt.

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Payments are being made to line up false witnesses.

witness tampering? of course, the 1% are above the law.

Can the prosecution subpoena Trash U's financial records, or find out how many paid vs. how many suckers "graduated"?

[MultiTroll]

witness tampering? of course, the 1% are above the law.

Can the prosecution subpoena Trash U's financial records, or find out how many paid vs. how many suckers "graduated"?
I know he is gonna heavily use that follow up questionnaire. The one where some high pressure sales dude called up ex student and hounded for a good review. Sadly, sounds like a lot were like "If it will get you to STFU and quit calling me yes, just put down excellent." Very jellyfish of the ones who truly thought it sucked, but I know Tramp U was using some stats of how many were *satisfied*.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I know he is gonna heavily use that follow up questionnaire. The one where some high pressure sales dude called up ex student and hounded for a good review. Sadly, sounds like a lot were like "If it will get you to STFU and quit calling me yes, just put down excellent." Very jellyfish of the ones who truly thought it sucked, but I know Tramp U was using some stats of how many were *satisfied*.

He's massaging opinion for simpletons in the press and not as a legal defense. I imagine if he tries that at court as his main line he will get destroyed.

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Trump University: Just Another Conservative Fraud

“I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money,” former Trump University sales manager Ronald Schnackenberg stated in a particularly damning deposition (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/01/us/politics/schnackenberg-testimony.html?_r=0) unsealed yesterday as part of a legal case against Donald Trump and his real estate seminars.

Schnackenberg describes Trump University as “only interested in selling every person the most expensive seminars they possible could.” Far from providing its customers with an actual education, “most of the instructors, mentors and coaches had very little or no experience in the real estate techniques they were teaching.”

Free seminars were designed for the sole purpose of generating sign-ups for $1,500 classes;

the $1,500 classes were solely designed to sign people up for $35,000 “elite seminars”;

and the elite seminars simply foisted more products on “students.”

Salesmen for Trump University were forced to put students in financial peril to make sales — or face consequences.

According to Schnackenberg, he was “reprimanded” for not selling a couple a $35,000 seminar because they would have had to use “disability income” and “tak[e] out a loan based on the equity in his apartment.”

Another sales person closed the deal.

Furthermore, according to Schnackenberg, “speakers told students to raise their credit card limits so that they could be ready to purchase real estate.” They even encouraged students to pay for the classes with credit cards.

Hawking financially risky fraudulent products, designed to take advantage of elderly and vulnerable populations, would seem like a disqualifier for a presidential candidate, except it puts Trump squarely in line with the profit model of much of he conservative movement.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-university-just-another-conservative-fraud

iow, nothing but the usual universal proposition in all commercial transactions:

"the shittiest possible product for the highest possible price"

Trash, the next President of America The UnFuckable.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The case will only go away if Trump is able to convince a judge that the claims against Trump U are unmeritorious, if a jury hears the case and determines that there's no liability, or if Trump settles with the Plaintiffs.

Given the deep pocket that Trump represents, the Plaintiffs' lawyers are certainly not likely to settle their case for pennies on the dollar at this point, particularly if they're getting favorable rulings from the court (either because they deserve them or because the judge is biased against Trump and is making decisions on that basis -- though the latter seems quite unlikely).

The political fallout for settling would likely hold his hand at least for the time being. While it doesn't legally imply culpability in the public opinion it sure as hell would.

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Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Just Released A Devastating Web Ad About Trump University

http://15130-presscdn-0-89.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-01-at-8.35.33-PM-701x438.png

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/01/hillary-clintons-campaign-releases-devastating-web-ad-trump-university.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

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Even Trump’s defense of ‘Trump University’ raises questions

For the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, it’s a bit of a disaster:

the publicly available details paint Trump as a literal con man. He and his operation stand accused of stuffing their own pockets by preying on the vulnerable, selling unsuspecting students snake oil at indefensible prices and through misleading claims.

Trump’s first defense, rolled out last week, was to go after (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-unambiguously-attacks-judge-s-ethnicity-697252931835) the federal judge overseeing the civil suit against “Trump University,” falsely accusing him of being a “Mexican.”

His second defense came yesterday, in the form of video testimonials from former “students” who enjoyed their experience at the “school.”

The good news is, there’s nothing radically charged about the video, but the bad news, as Media Matters noted (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/06/01/reports-even-trumps-defense-trump-u-fraudulent/210663), is that this new defense has itself been characterized as a “scam.”

RedState, which termed the video a “scam,” noted that two of the three former students shown in the video, Kent Moyer and Casey Hoban, do not appear to currently work in real estate, and

that at least one of the students, Hoban, may have “an ongoing business and personal relationship with the Trump family.” …

The third student, Michelle Gunn, is a real estate investor who has previously given a testimonial for an unrelated self-help workshop.

As USA Today reported, Gunn also “manages her college-aged son, Houston, who wrote a book at 13, Schooled for Success: How I Plan to Graduate from High School a Millionaire. It was endorsed by Donald Trump.”

In addition to what RedState and USA Today reported, in 2013 both Michelle and Houston appeared in yet another testimonial, which mentioned the release of the book and Trump’s endorsement.

Houston Gunn’s website, Facebook page, and Twitter profile also feature photos of Gunn and Trump together. :lol


The Trump campaign described these students as “representative :lol of the many students who were overwhelmingly satisfied :lol with Trump University,” but the details suggest that isn’t an entirely fair description.

Making matters worse, Team Trump isn’t done going after U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. TheWashington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/06/01/437ccae6-280b-11e6-a3c4-0724e8e24f3f_story.html) overnight:


Katrina Pierson, a spokeswoman for Trump, has expanded on the accusations of bias, wrongly suggesting Curiel is part of a group organizing protests at Trump rallies around California.

Curiel is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, a professional group that she appeared to confuse with the National Council of La Raza, an advocacy group.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/even-trumps-defense-trump-university-raises-questions?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Only Trash-suckers, with trash for brains, could believe the trashy defenses Trash's people are spewing.

[Mitch]

How some nobody is talking about the old news of the judge trying to re-seal the documents :lol

[Reck]

Why in the world is Trump still trying to go head to head with a us judge? You will lose that battle 10 out of 10 times.

Keep digging your grave Trump.

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Inside the probe of Trump University that Abbott's office launched and then ended

For seven months, a team of investigators in the Texas Attorney General's Office extensively scrutinized a for-profit real estate investment training program known as Trump University.

The investigators went undercover to attend seminars, interviewed dozens of students and requested hundreds of documents. Ultimately, records show, they determined in May 2010 that the program had illegally engaged in false advertising, and they asked their bosses to sue unless the business agreed to pay the state $5.4 million.

And then, everything stopped. Trump University decided to leave Texas, and the bosses decided not to file the lawsuit - a choice that did not sit well with at least one of the investigators.

"The case was closed and all the Texas consumers were left high and dry," said John Owens, then the deputy chief of the office's consumer protection division, who retired in 2011 after 20 years at the office.

"We were a little shocked," Owens added.

The investigation - and the decision by then-Attorney General Greg Abbott's office not to sue - has drawn a surge of attention this week thanks to a California judge's order unsealing documents in a lawsuit against the controversial training program named after a businessman who is now the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee.

Critics pounced on a revelation unearthed by the Associated Press that Abbott received donations totaling $35,000 from Trump three years after deciding not to sue - the only major donation the New York billionaire has made to a Texas politician in years. The state Democratic Party said Abbott was "on the corrupt Trump payroll."

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Investigators-planned-to-ask-Trump-University-for-7960668.php?t=370ac74dc9438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium

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here's another trashy Repug lawyer sliming Curiel as not giving Trash a fair trial

Alberto Gonzales Defends Trump On Judge Smear: He Has 'Right To A Fair Trial’


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alberto-gonzales-defends-trump-attacks-judge-curiel?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[russellgoat]

Why in the world is Trump still trying to go head to head with a us judge? You will lose that battle 10 out of 10 times.

Keep digging your grave Trump.

Who is that tranny in your avatar?

[spurraider21]

Trump U is like Hillary's Emails. story that wont go away but their supporters dont give a shit anyway

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Texas A.G. Tells Former Investigator To Please Shut Up About Trump University Lawsuit, Please

Texas government officials would like you all to know that there is absolutely nothing to see in that story from last week about how Texas was all ready to sue Trump University for being a fraudulent scammy ripoff, but then suddenly the lawsuit went away, (http://wonkette.com/602541/texas-a-g-dropped-suit-against-trump-university-trump-supported-him-for-governor-weird) thanks to higher-ups in the Attorney General’s office.

On Friday, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office sent a cease and desist letter (http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/06/ag-ken-paxton-tries-to-silence-former-gov-abbott-aide-who-called-axing-of-trump-u-suit-political.html/) to John Owens, the former deputy director of the state Consumer Protection Division, telling him to stop revealing details of the 2010 case, which is closed, do you hear him, CLOSED.

Owens told several media outlets last week that his office had requested permission to sue Trump University for ripping off Texas consumers to the tune of $2.6 million; the suit also sought an additional $2.8 million in penalties and fees.

Owens said that in May 2010, higher-ups in the A.G.’s office, then headed by Greg Abbott, said the investigation and lawsuit was over and everything was all good, since Trump U was going out of business and wouldn’t be a problem in Texas anymore.

Abbott went on to become governor,

Trump went on to run for president, and

Trump University went on to become the prime example of why Donald Trump is a phony and a fraud (OK, one MORE prime example).

http://wonkette.com/602611/texas-a-g-tells-former-investigator-to-please-shut-up-about-trump-university-lawsuit-please

cease and desist, or else what? :lol

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One paragraph that shows the absurdity of Trump's racial and religious tests for judges

Trump's theory is, apparently, that anyone can get any judge disqualified for "conflict of interest" just by saying things that the judge finds offensive enough.

Don't like the Jewish judge on your case?

Say things that are critical of Jews, and now the judge presumably has to step aside because of a conflict of interest.

Don't like the female judge? Say things that women tend to find offensive.

Don't like the judge who was a Republican activist? Say nasty things about Republicans. For obvious reasons, that is not the law, because it can't be the law.

Judges can't be disqualified from a case because of their ethnicity, or because of their ideology, or because you say things that are offensive to them or their ethnic group.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11862638/trump-university-judge-racist

Trash yet again shows his ignorance of law, ethics, etc, etc. Just like the ignorance of Trash's supporters.

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Trump was for Libya before he was against it (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/6/1535010/-Trump-was-for-Libya-before-he-was-against-it)

In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the host, John Dickerson, pointed out that Mr. Trump had supported military intervention in Libya and the ouster of its leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi,

despite the fact he now criticizes Hillary Clinton on both points.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/06/1535010/-Trump-was-for-Libya-before-he-was-against-it?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

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Trump co-chair demands CNN stop saying ‘racist’ because ‘it always pushes back on the white guy’

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/trump-co-chair-demands-cnn-stop-saying-racist-because-it-always-pushes-back-on-the-white-guy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Paladino? :lol

Paladino acknowledged forwarding emails including images of bestiality and derogatory characterizations of President Obama (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carl-paladino-leaked-e-mails-called-racist-and-sexist), including one offering a video clip of African tribesmen dancing that characterized the video as "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal."

The Tea-Party backed candidate reportedly sent an e-mail depicting a horse having sex with a woman and another that included a pornographic video and the headline "Miss France 2008 F[***]ing."

He also reportedly sent out an e-mail depicting President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as a pimp and prostitute and one showing an airplane landing near black men with the caption "Holy Sh*t. run ni**ers, run!"

Paladino also made headlines for saying last month, as the Associated Press reported (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/carl-paladino-backs-welfa_n_690284.html), that "he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in 'personal hygiene.'" The program, he said, would be voluntary.

He waded into the debate over the proposed Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero, going even further than many other Republicans by suggesting he would invoke eminent domain laws (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/nyregion/01paladino.html)to block what he calls a symbol of "conquest."

He believes global warming is a "farce."

He has what one New York tabloid called a "10-year-old love child (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/04/05/2010-04-05_gop_gov_hopeful_has_10yearold_love_child.html)."

If the state budget is late, he promises to shut down the government.

He defended a friend who called New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, an Orthodox Jew, "an Antichrist or a Hitler."

The state GOP tried to keep Paladino off the state ballot,

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carl-paladinos-controversial-statements-could-embarrass-republicans/

:lol

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State Attorneys General get caught up in ‘Trump U’ scandal

First, of course, are the straightforward allegations that the “university” was really a scam operation (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-trump-university-train-wreck-jolts-presidential-race), bilking students as part of a fraudulent scheme.

Second is the racism: Donald Trump has been relentless (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-trump-escalates-offensive-against-federal-judge) recently in his ugly and overtly racist criticisms of Judge U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who’s overseeing a civil case against the “school.” This aspect of the controversy has taken the entire presidential campaign in an unexpected direction.

And then there’s the third angle:

the Republican state Attorneys General who took an interest in the fraud allegations surrounding “Trump University,” but then changed their mind around the time of receiving quite a bit of money from Team Trump.

Let’s start in Florida, where the Associated Press reported (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67444ec825f3460ba4aadefc0d29d22f/trump-university-model-sell-hard-demand-see-warrant) last week:

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi briefly considered joining with [New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman] in a multi-state suit against Trump University. Three days after Bondi’s spokeswoman was quoted in local media reports as saying the office was reviewing the New York lawsuit, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 contribution to a political fundraising committee supporting Bondi’s re-election campaign.

Bondi, a Republican, soon dropped her investigation, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.

The same report noted that Bondi’s office, confronted with several dozen complaints from Floridians who felt ripped off by Trump’s enterprise, put little effort into investigating the complaints.

The state AG’s office apparently wrote letters to Floridians urging them to hire their own private counsel to represent their interests.

And there’s Texas.


The Associated Press also reported (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67444ec825f3460ba4aadefc0d29d22f/trump-university-model-sell-hard-demand-see-warrant) last week that the office of then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R), who’s now the state’s governor, opened a civil investigation into “Trump University” possibly engaging in “deceptive trade practices.” In 2010, Trump’s enterprise agreed to cease its operations in the Lone Star State, and Abbott quietly dropped the probe. Trump later donated $35,000 to Abbott’s gubernatorial campaign.

But the story doesn’t end there. The AP went on to report (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cd370f58be7c40749e9d7dad5ec9e071/ex-texas-official-trump-u-probe-dropped-due-politics) over the weekend that Abbott’s successor in the state AG’s office, Republican Ken Paxton, “moved Friday to muzzle a former state regulator who says he was ordered in 2010 to drop a fraud investigation into Trump University for political reasons.”


Paxton’s office issued a cease and desist letter to former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens after he made public copies of a 14-page internal summary of the state’s case against Donald Trump for scamming millions from students of his namesake real estate seminar.

Owens, now retired, said his team had built a solid case against the now-presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but was told to drop it after Trump’s company agreed to cease operations in Texas.

Update: I heard this morning from Gov. Abbott’s office, who emailed me this statement from Matt Hirsch, the governor’s communications director: “The Texas Attorney General’s office investigated Trump U and its demands were met – Trump U was forced out of Texas and consumers were protected. It’s absurd to suggest any connection between a case that has been closed and a donation to Governor Abbott four years later.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/state-attorneys-general-get-caught-trump-u-scandal?cid=sm_fb_maddow



So Trash U, having ripped off, scammed Texans, was allowed by Abbott to leave the state while the Texans didn't get their money back. Then Trash paid off Abbott for the favor.

[boutons_deux]

Coal Bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyTvF1KZ0c

[boutons_deux]

Under fire, Trump tries to explain away racism controversy


When a major political party spends the day debating the degree to which its presidential candidate is a racist, it’s not in a good place.

The candidate has ignored calls to apologize for, or at least walk back, his comments, but Republican leaders have nevertheless made clear to Trump that the feeding frenzy has cost his campaign dearly.

So, Team Trump issued a written clarification yesterday, in an apparent attempt to lower the temperature. His comments, the GOP candidate said, “have been misconstrued.” It went on to say:


“I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent.”


Tip for those accused of racism: avoid anything that resembles “some of my best friends are” rhetoric.

“…I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial. “


According to independent legal analysts, he’s not justified at all (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/07/sorry-donald-trump-the-mexican-judge-was-just-following-the-law/).

“Throughout the litigation my attorneys have continually demonstrated that students who participated in Trump University were provided a substantive, valuable education….”


There’s a fair amount of evidence (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-trump-university-train-wreck-jolts-presidential-race) to the contrary (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/us/politics/donald-trump-university.html).

“Over a five-year period, more than 10,000 paying students filled out surveys giving the courses high marks and expressing their overwhelming satisfaction with Trump University’s programs.”


Actually, many of those students later said they were coerced (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/02/trump-university-s-star-student-it-was-a-con.html) into providing positive reviews, and according to (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67444ec825f3460ba4aadefc0d29d22f/trump-university-model-sell-hard-demand-see-warrant) the Associated Press, the plaintiff’s lawyers in the civil suit claimed that the surveys “took places before students had experienced the full program and were not anonymous.”


“[Q]uestions were raised regarding the Obama appointed Judge’s impartiality. It is a fair question.”


That’s a great passive-voice phrase, but who was it, exactly, who raised the questions? I believe that was Donald Trump – the one who’s now describing his own accusations as “fair.”


“I do not intend to comment on this matter any further.”


After months of ugly attacks against a judge who’s done nothing wrong and can’t defend himself, Trump has decided to move on? I’m skeptical that’ll last, but either way, it’s a little late for restraint.

The statement included no apology or expression of regret. On the contrary, Trump’s written clarification suggests everyone else is to blame: people “misconstrued” his otherwise clear sentiments, which he believes are perfectly “fair” and “justified.”

As for his ostensible allies, many prominent Republicans have been publicly critical of Trump’s overt racism, but the GOP candidate held a conference call this week in which he urged supporters to lash out (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-trump-convinced-his-critics-are-the-racists) at his critics, suggesting they’re the real racists, not him.

Some took the suggestion to heart.

On CNN yesterday, Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord suggested (https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/06/07/cnns-trump-surrogate-calls-paul-ryan-racist/210775)House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is a racist, and

around the same time, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) defended Trump by saying (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lee-zeldin-donald-trump-obama-racist_us_5756e984e4b07823f95150ce) President Obama might be a racist, too.

Later, the New York congressman said, “I apologize to anyone who interpreted my comments as calling the president a racist.” For the record, Zeldin’s exact words were, “You can easily argue that the president of the United States is a racist with his policies and his rhetoric.”

This isn’t going away.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/tom-cotton-loses-sight-what-public-service-all-about?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Repugs are so fucked! :lol

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Trump still has a few beaners in his corner. These are the ones that hate Mexicans because they think that calling THEMSELVES stupid honkey marketing terms like "latino" and "hispanic" separates them ABOVE Mexicans. Not realizing their browness cannot be hidden. The New Uncle Toms. Protecting massa from all attcks big and small. Some of theses wwe watching trump fellators dont realize he hates them too. lol

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