This is a timely documentary about the predatory practices of the online Trump University from an insider who worked there for much of his career. Allegedly educating ‘students’ on the ins and outs of the world of real estate entrepreneurship, the ‘university’ ‘faculty’ consisted largely of con artists and motivational speakers, some of them convicted criminals with little or no real estate experience, who succeeded in bilking honest ‘students’ out of their savings while promising them riches from investing in real estate and inducing them to pay for ever more expensive courses that never delivered much beyond hype. Some of the advice the leaders gave was simply illegal-(why is no one surprised?) and very few of the enrolees ever recouped their costs.
The author fails to justify his prolonged stay with this shady institution, except with late-breaking retrospective insight into its true purpose- to line the pockets of a billionaire at the expense of poor folk anxious to become educated and self-sufficient. He seems as mesmerized by the real estate guru as any of the duped students. But at least he seemed genuinely motivated to help the enrolees.
Not a very surprising revelation given what we know about the character of Donald Trump, but nevertheless an interesting read.
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