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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/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
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 do ents. 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 do ents 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...witter-premium
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/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Who is that tranny in your avatar?
Trump U is like Hillary's Emails. story that wont go away but their supporters dont give a anyway
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, thanks to higher-ups in the Attorney General’s office.
On Friday, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office sent a cease and desist letter 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?
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.
Trump was for Libya before he was against it
In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the host, John erson, 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/2016/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Trump co-chair demands CNN stop saying ‘racist’ because ‘it always pushes back on the white guy’
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/trum...e+Raw+Story%29
Paladino?
Paladino acknowledged forwarding emails including images of bestiality and derogatory characterizations of President Obama, 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 Mic e Obama as a pimp and pros ute 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, 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 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."
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-pal...s-republicans/
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, bilking students as part of a fraudulent scheme.
Second is the racism: Donald Trump has been relentless 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 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 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 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-s...d=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.
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.
“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 to the contrary.
“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 into providing positive reviews, and according to 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 at his critics, suggesting they’re the real racists, not him.
Some took the suggestion to heart.
On CNN yesterday, Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord suggestedHouse Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is a racist, and
around the same time, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) defended Trump by saying 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-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
Repugs are so ed!
Trump still has a few s 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
The Absolute Best, Most Terrific Reporting on Trump University
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...ent=1465472096
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