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“A California judge who ruled in favor of the plaintiffs compared Trump University to infamous con man Bernie Madoff, writing ‘victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced.’”

Could Republican voters be the next awakened fleecees?

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In other Trump/university news: A foreign university has already revoked a Trump honorary degree. Now an American university – Lehigh – has begun talking about the whole honoring Trump thing.

The professor initiating discussion about the Trump degree at Lehigh University specializes in draining away gunk in order to stabilize environments.

Margaret Soltan, February 14, 2016 9:15AM
Posted in: democracy, professors

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11 Responses to ““A California judge who ruled in favor of the plaintiffs compared Trump University to infamous con man Bernie Madoff, writing ‘victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced.’””

  1. Dr_Doctorstein Says:

    Please, please let this man be the GOP nominee.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Dr_D: I go back and forth on that. Couple of problems, including the one in the Israeli joke on this page (“What if we win?”). And there’s the business of maybe not wanting to watch what our country looks like – to us, and to the world – having a presidential campaign in which a man like Trump is the nominee.

  3. dmf Says:

    could be our own Berlusconi, the truth is that property developers are heavy duty players political in every city that I know of maybe this will bring them into the light a bit.
    http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_suicide_of_the_liberal_church_20160124

  4. dmf Says:

    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ad38087bac/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-movie

  5. AYY Says:

    “victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced”

    Those of you who are Hillary or Sanders supporters would be well advised to take note.

  6. Margaret Soltan Says:

    AYY: They’re so not in Trump’s league. He’s yuge.

  7. Bill R Says:

    He is yuge. And the Trump U scam is so petty. He swindled people who really could not afford it out of a few thousand each.

    Something smells. Not just the scam. I don’t think he’s as rich as he pretends to be.

  8. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Well, he’s spending a lot on his campaign.

  9. AYY Says:

    I dunno. Hillary is yuger. She has the Benghazi thing, the Clinton Foundation thing, the email thing, the silencing of the bimbos thing, the coin toss thing,and then there’s a lot of stuff from the 90’s. Nobody in North America is in her league. After all there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support her. Can’t say that about anyone else.

    And Bill, if you think something smells about Trump, just keep your eyes on Hillary.

  10. Bill R Says:

    They are both an eyeful, that’s fer sure.

  11. Derek Says:

    1) To AYY: Hillary has all of these “things” that have, time after time, been proven to be great big nothing-burgers. It’s the Clinton rules: Keep digging and asserting that things are awry, and when the thing you are digging for proves not to be there, claim to have unearthed something else, and then dig into that something else until you find nothing, then divert again.

    2) To Margaret: Is he spending a lot of money, though? Evidence indicates that, in fact, he’s brilliantly marshaling the power of media coverage to cover the fact that he’s actually not spending a whole lot of money in traditional ways. This might be changing now that this seems to be more than Kabuki Theater for him, but maybe not. It seems clear that he’s actually gathering lots of small donations. I could be wrong, but I’m so far seeing someone leveraging free publicity to the max, which is kind of brilliant, but little indication that Trump is actually truly spending on his own campaign in big ways.

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