Though I’d add a qualification even to that, and in Trump’s favor: from his perspective, that was just another branding opportunity. He didn’t have any scruples about going along with it, as long as the checks to him cleared, but he didn’t run the thing.
He was rightly held legally responsible, but I don’t consider it to be really his fraud.
It was an era when lots of for-profit schools were doing the same thing. And nobody had a problem with them. Like ITT Tech, Art Institute, there were a lot of them advertising on late-night tv.
They eventually angered the public institutions that saw all that those students and money as theirs. Students those institutions had written off. And I'd hazard to say that graduates of many for-profit schools like Trump U were more prepared for success in life than graduates of public institutions today. Who's the bigger fraudsters?
This underscores a recurring problem with Trump. He seems incapable of recognizing obvious hustlers and incompetents that will damage and undermine him.
I'd agree to the Trump University thing.
Though I’d add a qualification even to that, and in Trump’s favor: from his perspective, that was just another branding opportunity. He didn’t have any scruples about going along with it, as long as the checks to him cleared, but he didn’t run the thing.
He was rightly held legally responsible, but I don’t consider it to be really his fraud.
It was an era when lots of for-profit schools were doing the same thing. And nobody had a problem with them. Like ITT Tech, Art Institute, there were a lot of them advertising on late-night tv.
They eventually angered the public institutions that saw all that those students and money as theirs. Students those institutions had written off. And I'd hazard to say that graduates of many for-profit schools like Trump U were more prepared for success in life than graduates of public institutions today. Who's the bigger fraudsters?
The bigger fraudsters--Harvard, Yale, most other mainstream "universities."
This underscores a recurring problem with Trump. He seems incapable of recognizing obvious hustlers and incompetents that will damage and undermine him.