Nothing untoward about a lie, got it
Trump donates $1200 to Bondi and she calls off the investigation.
Nothing to see there folks, move along please.
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Blatant denial of evidence based reality isn’t a bug to the GOP, it is a feature
Sean’s little buddy’s told him it was so…
That’s 100% accurate: It wasn’t pay to play. It was a bribe.
“There were 48 other attorneys general that didn’t investigate this,” he continued. “The only one that did was Eric Schneiderman, who is a Hillary Clinton supporter. Of all of the 50 states where this was brought up, only one state pursued it, New York, a close ally of Hillary Clinton.”
He must be using FoxMath™. If only one state pursued it that would be 49 other attorneys general. But as we all know California is also pursuing this, with an “unfair Mexican judge” no less.
Once again, this proves that the one and only thing Rethugliklans are good at is looting.
Nothing untoward about this at all. We do it all the time. As soon as a state AG suggests that there may be an investigation, we send them a healthy campaign contribution and suddenly there’s insufficient grounds to proceed with the investigation. Standard procedure.
He donated $25,000 to Bondi.
For a man that can’t pull off “the shocker”, Mr. Manbaby Hands is certainly fingering the country’s asshole like a champ.
The MSM will, of course, wait patiently for its chance to sniff the finger.
The RNC spokesman added that discussion of any potential pay-to-play regarding Bondi should have been settled with the $2,500 fine Trump paid to the IRS last week for the donation, which came from his charitable foundation.
No, that’s the fine imposed because the entity that paid the bribe is prohibited by law from doing so.
It in no way ends the discussion of the payment of the bribe, and the favor Trump got in return.
Why are they calling it ‘pay to play’? It wasn’t paying money for access. It’s good old fashioned bribery. The simple kind.
“There were 48 other attorneys general that didn’t investigate this,” he continued. “The only one that did was Eric Schneiderman, who is a Hillary Clinton supporter. Of all of the 50 states where this was brought up, only one state pursued it, New York, a close ally of Hillary Clinton.”
Lies…lies…lies…
Spicer neglects to include the Attorney General of Texas, who essentially forced Trump U out of the state, albeit at the same time forgiving the awarding of settlements to scammed students. For which Trump (allegedly) richly rewarded him.
Long before Trump University fell in the crosshairs of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, one of Donald Trump's fellow Republicans drew a bead on the now-defunct school: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
***Abbott, then the state's attorney general, opened an investigation into the real-estate seminar business in 2010 raising many of the issues now reverberating in the white-hot race for the White House. Trump University ultimately closed up shop in Texas, leaving in its wake an untold number of people like Steven Branton of Mesquite — former students who were enticed by the Trump brand, only to discover a program wrought with high-pressure sales tactics and unfulfilled promises.***
"It was just nonsense — I don't know how else to say it," Branton said, recalling how one of the seminars he went to seemed to take advantage of attendees who were not as financially able to afford them as he was at the time. "There were people in that room — I guarantee you, they were talking about giving him everything they had."
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In Texas, the Trump University probe was never fully fleshed out after the school quickly pulled out of the state. But in at least one letter to Trump's attorneys, ***Abbott's office said it found the promises the school was making to its students "virtually impossible to achieve."***
A former deputy chief of Abbott's consumer protection division, John Owens, claims that his bosses nixed a request to sue Trump University for illegal business practices. A memo dated May 11, 2010, and provided to the Tribune and other news organizations, shows that Owens and his colleagues wanted to ask Trump University for a $5.4 million settlement.
"***It was swept under the rug, and the consumers were left with no one to go to bat for them," Owens told The Texas Tribune.***
***"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," responded Abbott spokesman Matt Hirsch.***
***More than three years after Trump University effectively ceased operations in Texas, Trump made two contributions to Abbott's gubernatorial campaign, one for $25,000 in July 2013 and the other for $10,000 in May 2014***. To this day, the donations to Abbott represent Trump's only substantial foray into Texas politics — and enduring fodder for Abbott critics like the state Democratic Party, which charged Thursday that the governor is "on the corrupt Trump payroll."
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/02/abbott-trump-u/Spicer: “There were 48 other attorneys general that didn’t investigate this”.
And Trump didn’t have to give a payoff to any of them?
Here’s the thing: this is SOP for some businesses. They pay a fine, or a bribe, and charge it as a cost of carrying on their crooked enterprises. Don the con knows how to play the game; the problem is he now wants to play the American electorate.
Actually the CA case is a class action.
And NY is THE state who would pursue it, since the fraud originated there.
Trump Foundation tried to conceal the bribe, THAT is a crime
“Pay-to-Play” no. Pay AG to drop investigation yes. He got off cheaply. The going rate for scammers to avoid a million or more $ in civil settlements and/or criminal fraud prosecution is easily $100,000.
I used to work for a guy in the mid-70s. A gazillionaire. He had his chauffeur park his limo in front of the office, same spot every day, no parking zone, marked big as day. He tried a few times to get the zone removed, to no avail, so he just came to an agreement he’d pay the fines and in exchange the limo never got towed. Once a week I was sent to the 3rd floor of the police headquarters downtown with an envelope full of money. Everyone was happy. It was just business.
I agree. It was not “pay to play” Bondi was paid “not to play”.
See? Trump is a spectacular deal-maker.
Did the scam that was Trump University actually operate in all 50 states? These four states – California (where there is a class action), Florida, New York and Texas collectively represent at least 1/3 and probably more like 40% of the American population. Didn’t people have to show up in person for some “classes”? I would be very surprised if Trump University had outposts in the Dakotas or Montana or Wyoming. They don’t know how not to lie.