WATCH: "It was really a fraud from beginning to end." -Eric Schneiderman, Atty. Gen. of NY, on Trump University. https://t.co/JmsEeqL32K
— Good Morning America (@GMA) 2 June 2016
Schneiderman is a former Democratic Senator, and has remained a Democrat.
Trump, on the other hand, as with most topics, has flip-flopped, being at various times a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent.
In 2013, when Trump was Republican, Schneiderman took Trump to court over Trump University...AND WON!
In August 2013, Schneiderman filed a $40 million civil lawsuit against Donald Trump for his "Trump University" (now known as Trump Entrepreneur Initiative), alleging it to be an "unlicensed university"[25] and calling it a "bait-and-switch scheme."[26] Trump denied all accusations, calling Schneiderman a "political hack."[27] In October 2014 a New York judge found Trump personally liable for the institution's violation of state education laws.[28]
[source : Eric Schneiderman, Wikipedia]
A video that Trump uses to show how successful the courses were uses two former students...but fails to disclose that Trump has business with them:
Donald Trump's campaign sought Wednesday to deflect criticism of his defunct real estate seminars at Trump University with testimonials from two former students who have business ties to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
The campaign posted a web video defending Trump University after a federal judge unsealed documents in a long-running lawsuit filed by ex-students who claim they were fleeced. The seminars ended in 2011 amid a flurry of complaints and state fraud investigations.
...The video recently filmed at Trump Tower in New York features Casey Hoban, a Connecticut bottled-water entrepreneur who said he earned "incalculable" profits on real estate deals after attending one of Trump's two-day courses about a decade ago.
Not disclosed by the campaign is that Hoban is also a Trump family acquaintance whose protein-infused water is stocked at Trump's golf courses, restaurants and resorts.
...The campaign's video also featured Michelle Gunn of Tennessee, who said she made back her Trump University tuition on her very first real estate deal.
"I see and hear there are former Trump University students coming out, and I have to sit back and think to myself if they were given the same education, the same opportunity, how come they didn't have the same results?" Gunn says in the video. "I think that is because you have to take action upon yourself. You have to go out and make it happen."
Not mentioned by the campaign is that the celebrity billionaire previously endorsed a self-help book authored by Gunn's teenage son, titled "Schooled for Success: How I Plan to Graduate from High School a Millionaire." A website promoting the book also features a photo of a smiling Houston Gunn posing with Trump in what appears to be the then reality TV star's Trump Tower office.
[source : Former Students Defend Trump University in Aim to Redeem Donald, Haaretz, http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.722767?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter, 2nd June 2016]
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