Trump Chumps

Court documents released yesterday showed without a doubt that Donald Trump is con man out to screw regular guys:

In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics, employed unqualified instructors, made deceptive claims and exploited vulnerable students willing to pay tens of thousands for Mr. Trump’s insights.

These aren't just disgruntled students who felt they got screwed over paying $35,000 for bogus real estate investment classes that were supposed to be delivered by Trump himself. These are the instructors and sales people who worked for the fraudulent school.

Trump likes to claim he didn't really have anything to do with the scam, that he just lended his name to it. That's a lie:

Mr. Trump, who started the university in 2005, owned 93 percent of the now-defunct company. From the start, he acted as its chief promoter, rather than day-to-day manager, selling it as a tool of financial empowerment that would improve life for thousands of ordinary Americans. It would, he said, “teach you better than the best business school,” according to the transcript of a Web video.

Trump's con job was the worst kind of scam: taking money from people who could least afford it, ruining their lives:

The most striking documents were written testimony from former employees of Trump University who said they had become disenchanted with the university’s tactics and culture. Corrine Sommer, an event manager, recounted how colleagues encouraged students to open up as many credit cards as possible to pay for classes that many of them could not afford.

“It’s O.K., just max out your credit card,” Ms. Sommer recalled their saying.

Jason Nicholas, a sales executive at Trump University, recalled a deceptive pitch used to lure students — that Mr. Trump would be “actively involved” in their education. “This was not true,” Mr. Nicholas testified, saying Mr. Trump was hardly involved at all. Trump University, Mr. Nicholas concluded, was “a facade, a total lie.”

Trump says that lots of students felt they received good value for their money. Sadly, that's not true: they're are just losers haven't yet realized that they were conned.

Exactly like all those voters who still support Trump...