Nov. 16, 2015. So will Trump University be the thing that brings Trump down? Trump University is Somehow Even Worse Than You Imagined Blog Post. If anyone still has any doubt about the troubling nature of Donald Trump’s record, he or she should be obliged to read the affidavit of Ronald Schnackenberg, a former salesman for Trump University. Back in 2013, when the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s Attorney General, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and some of his associates, the complaint, which is also worth reading in full, made perfectly clear what sort of organization it was targeting. Following the release, earlier this week, of testimony filed in a federal lawsuit against Trump University, the United States is facing a high-stakes social-science experiment. "It's Even Worse Than You Think" is an intriguing examination of the first 100 days of Trump's presidency and the differences between his and past presidencies, … . If the revelations about Trump University_ _don’t do any damage to Trump, it’s time to worry—or worry even more—about American democracy. Despite Trump University’s claim that it offered “graduate programs, post graduate programs, doctorate programs,” it wasn’t a university at all. That was the bait—or, rather, the initial bait. Trump’s lawyers also told the Times that other testimony in the California case had discredited the charges made by former employees. Why Trump is even worse than you think. To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. . After multiple investigations and lawsuits for illegal business practices and defrauding students, the “university” shut its doors in 2010. Newyorker – Trump University its worse than you think. The best people are saying that my school is probably the number one Ivy League school in America. Schnackenberg’s testimony was one of the documents unsealed by a judge in the class-action suit, which was brought in California by some of Trump University’s disgruntled former attendees. Trump’s Feud With Europe Is Worse Than You Think . An Erudite Analysis of the Trump Fiasco It's Even Worse Than You Think, What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, written by David Cay Johnston, and narrated by Danny Campbell. The FBI is facing one of the greatest tests of its 110 years as politicians attack the bureau and Donald Trump calls it a "disgrace." In a post for _The _New Republic, Brian Beutler argued that it will be “devastating” to him. It was a company that purported to be selling Trump’s secret insights into how to make money in real estate. One thing is clear, though. ... and affiliate professor of history at American University and a political analyst for CBS News. Part 2: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s First Year in Office Part 3: Trump Biographer: Trump is the “Most Racist” President in At Least 100 Years At least Donald Trump’s “smoking gun” tape is simpler than Richard Nixon’s. This bait and switch was laid out in the Trump University Playbook (“Playbook”), which provided step-to-step directions to Trump University instructors on what to tell students during the seminars. Commenting on Twitter, Clinton’s press secretary, Brian Fallon, wrote, “Trump U is devastating because it’s metaphor for his whole campaign: promising hardworking Americans way to get ahead, but all based on lies.”. 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.” The ad said that Trump had “hand-picked” Trump University’s instructors, and it ended with a quote from him: “I can turn anyone into a successful real estate investor, including you.”. Some of these methods, such as encouraging customers to max out their credit cards and playing psychological tricks on them, are familiar from the world of time-shares and other dodgy industries. According to the Attorney General’s complaint, the free classes were merely a marketing device. . All rights reserved. Following the release, earlier this week, of testimony filed in a federal lawsuit against Trump University, the United States is facing a high-stakes social-science experiment. Trump University: It’s worse than you think. Washington and the World. Trump University instructors and staff were given detailed guidance as to how to build rapport and approach consumers one-on-one to encourage further purchases. When Donald Trump first launched Trump University in 2005, he said that the program’s aim was altruistic. A three-week trip across the continent revealed a transatlantic relationship in tatters. If anyone still has any doubt about the troubling nature of Donald Trump’s record, he or she should be obliged to read the affidavit of Ronald Schnackenberg, a former salesman for Trump University. Be they great, middling, or corrupt, the presidents past all shared a trait missing in the Trump presidency. If anyone still has any doubt about the troubling nature of Donald Trump’s record, he or she should be obliged to read the affidavit of Ronald Schnackenberg, a former salesman for Trump University. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. On my Twitter feed, some people reacted more skeptically, pointing out that many of Trump’s supporters appear oblivious to any criticisms of him, and that Clinton isn’t necessarily the ideal prosecutor. John Cassidy on the recent revelations about Trump University, and how they may affect Donald Trump’s campaign for … The complaint explained. This was the full Manchurian Candidate scenario, and several orders of magnitude worse than the standard "collusion" story. It is much, much worse. Trump University instructors told people who attended the three-day seminars that this wasn’t enough time to learn how to succeed, and encouraged them to purchase additional “mentorship” programs, which cost up to thirty-five thousand dollars. In other words, Trump now has less than five weeks to vacate the White House. . IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America By David Cay Johnston 306 pp. This is a school, Trump University. Trump denies any wrongdoing. The newly released documents, which included actual Trump University playbooks (one was also uncovered by Politico earlier this year), provide more detail about the sales tactics that its employees used. When it began, Trump University offered online classes, but it quickly switched its focus to live classes and seminars, the first of which was free to attend. The Trump White House is bedlam. Will one of the world’s leading democracies elect as its President a businessman who founded and operated a for-profit learning annex that some of its own employees regarded as a giant ripoff, and that the highest legal officer in New York State has described as a classic bait-and-switch scheme? Donald Trump, the most perplexing candidate for the GOP presidential nomination this cycle, doesn’t think the federal government should profit from federal student loans. “I think many Republicans who held their nose and voted for Trump in 2016 thought he would at least be surrounded by seasoned staffers and career Republicans who would provide the policy road map for the administration,” said Jennifer Pierotti Lim, the co-founder of Republican Women for Progress, who endorsed Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. One of the company’s ads said of Trump, “He’s the most celebrated entrepreneur on earth. Ivy League. By Evan Osno s. Video. Schnackenberg, who worked in Trump’s office at 40 Wall Street, testified that “while Trump University claimed it wanted to help consumers make money in real estate, in fact Trump University was only interested in selling every person the most expensive seminars they possibly could.” The affidavit concludes, “Based upon my personal experience and employment, I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money.”, In one sense, the latest revelations don’t break much new ground. Trump University: It’s Worse Than You Think. Will one of the world’s leading democracies elect as its President a businessman who founded and operated a for-profit learning annex that some of its own employees regarded as a giant ripoff, and that the highest legal officer in New York State has described as a classic bait-and-switch scheme? Think the Trump tapes are worse than the Nixon tapes? The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Save this story for later. Aberrations like Trump litter the landscape of history. Trump University: It’s Worse Than You Think. It is much worse than you thought. The Sorry Legacy of the For-Profit College Boom. Citing surveys that he claims show that Trump University got high approval ratings from its customers, he has set up a Web site at 98percentapproval.com, which features testimonials from Trump University attendees and attacks on the Attorney General. People buy emotionally and justify it logically.”, One of Schnackenberg’s contributions, in his testimony, was to illustrate how these tactics worked with individuals. On Nov. 7, 1876, Tilden received over 250,000 more votes than Hayes, but as the night wore on, he had secured just 184 of the 185 electoral votes he needed to win. (In New York State, universities have to obtain a state charter.). To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. So far, though, Trump has failed in his efforts to have the lawsuits in California and New York thrown out. In It’s Even Worse Than You Think, Johnston exposes shocking details about the Mexican border wall, and how American consumers will end up paying for it, if it ever gets built; climate change, and all about Scott Pruitt who spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads; stocking—not draining—the swamp, despite his promise to do the opposite, Trump has filled his cabinet with … Simon & Schuster. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. By John Cassid y. June 2, 2016. Subscribe to John Cassidy’s newsletter to get the latest on politics, economics, and the news. Following the release, earlier this week, of testimony filed in a federal lawsuit against Trump University, the United States is facing a high-stakes social-science experiment. I can reveal that the president is a serial philanderer who is compulsively unfaithful to his wife. It’s Even Worse Than You Think The Trump Factor A single factor defines Donald Trump’s presidency, making it unlike the forty-four administrations before. John Cassidy writes: Following the release, earlier this week, of testimony filed in a federal lawsuit against Trump University, the United States is facing a high-stakes social-science experiment. We invite you to join the dialogue “I was disgusted by this conduct and decided to resign.”. What Will Decide the Presidential Election? . If you’re willing to defend almost-sorta-kinda collusion today, you’d better be willing to defend clear-as-day, quid-pro-quo collusion tomorrow. The alleged scam didn’t stop there. Woodrow Wilson Was Even Worse Than You Think. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells us exactly how it is making America worse again. David Remnick, Amy Davidson, Kelefa Sanneh, and Nate Silver discuss the problem of Trumpism. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton offered a preview of what is to come, calling Trump a “fraud” who is “trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump University.”, The Clinton campaign is clearly hoping that Trump University will be to Trump as Bain Capital was to Mitt Romney—a way to portray him as just another selfish rich guy who is out to profit at the expense of ordinary folk. TRUMP UNIVERSITY: IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK. Just called it Ivy League, it's all over. © 2021 Condé Nast. In fact, Trump hadn’t handpicked the instructors, and he didn’t attend the three-day seminars. Despite Trump University’s claim that it offered “graduate programs, post graduate programs, doctorate programs,” it wasn’t a university at all. There, Trump University’s instructors “engaged in a methodical, Systematic Series of misrepresentations” designed to convince students to sign up for a three-day seminar, where they would learn Trump’s personal techniques and strategies for investing, at a cost of about fifteen hundred dollars. Another salesperson then “talked them into buying the $35,000 program after I refused to sell this program to them,” he testified. The Trump administration's war on abortion rights is worse than you think The Trump administration has been executing a coordinated attack on what it sees as a critical public health issue. Trump University representatives were explicitly instructed to push the highest priced Elite programs. It was a company that purported to be selling Trump’s secret insights into how to make money in real estate. cnn.com – A judge has finalized a $25 million settlement for students … column about politics, economics, and more. By John Cassid y. Even when students hesitated to purchase the expensive programs, Trump representatives were provided stock responses to encourage purchases, including encouraging students to go into debt to pay for the Elite programs. For the first time in the Negotiation Journal’s 35-year history, it’s used a whole issue to talk about a U.S. president. Schnackenberg, who worked in Trump’s office at 40 Wall Street, testified that “while Trump University claimed it wanted to help consumers make money in real estate, in fact Trump University was only interested in selling every person the most expensive seminars they possibly could.” The affidavit concludes, “Based upon my personal experience and employment, I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money.”. Ad Choices. By Alexander Holt. on our Facebook page. Teflon Don: Revisiting Trump’s Early Fans. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. Trump University: It’s Worse Than You Think. Save this story for later. According to the complaint, “the contents and material presented by Trump University were developed in large part by a third-party company that creates and develops materials for an array of motivational speakers and Seminar and timeshare rental companies.” The closest that the attendees at the seminars got to Trump was when they were encouraged to have their picture taken with a life-size photo of him. Trump is so out of the ordinary when it comes to negotiation, in fact, that the quarterly published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, devoted its latest issue to him. He suffers from severe medical problems, which he and his staff are concealing from the press. Instead, always ask them how they FEEL about it. 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Moreover, the complaint said, “no specific Donald Trump techniques or strategies were taught during the seminars, Donald Trump ‘never’ reviewed any of Trump University’s curricula or programming materials, nor did he review any of the content for the free seminars or the three day seminars.” So what were the attendees taught? They just named it. tweet; By John Cassidy , JUNE 2, 2016. January 18, 2019. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. David Cay Johnston discusses his book, "It's Even Worse Than You Think" at Politics and Prose on 1/24/18. And, whatever happens to the legal cases, the allegations will dog him all the way to November. Hope Hicks, Trump’s campaign spokesperson, said that he was looking forward to his day in court. I did not feel it was an appropriate program for them because of their precarious financial condition.” Far from being commended by his bosses for his honesty, Schnackenberg said that he was reprimanded. 20/11/2016. Schoolchildren can easily grasp Trump’s high crime, in contrast to the complex, Machiavellian plot immortalized on the tape that led to Nixon’s downfall. Think about that!” Trump’s tweeted thought experiment came after trading on the New York Stock Exchange was temporarily halted as stocks plunged more than 2,000 points, a 7 percent drop that triggered an automatic pause. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. Recounting his experience with one couple, which included a man who was on disability, he said, “After the hard-sell sales presentation, they were considering purchasing the $35,000 Elite program. Johnston exposes how incredibly dangerous the Trump Administration is to the future of America! At another point, the manual said, “Don’t ask people what they THINK about something you’ve said. 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