Posted by Tina
Campaign items in the news are heating up. The following caught my attention late Saturday evening. Looks like the Clintons are involved in a “university” scandal Of their own:
In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. Progressive billionaire George Soros is also a Laureate financial backer.
As the Washington Post reports, “Laureate has stirred controversy throughout Latin America, where it derives two-thirds of its revenue.” During Bill Clinton’s tenure as Laureate’s chancellor, the school spent over $200 million a year on aggressive telemarketing, flashy Internet banner ads, and billboards designed to lure often unprepared students from impoverished countries to enroll in its for-profit classes. The goal: get as many students, regardless of skill level, signed up and paying tuition. …
…Shortly after Bill Clinton’s lucrative 2010 Laureate appointment, Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. began pumping millions of its USAID dollars to a sister nonprofit, International Youth Foundation (IYF), which is run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker. Indeed, State Dept. funding skyrocketed once Bill Clinton got on the Laureate payroll, according to Bloomberg
The Clintons should never again be allowed in the White House. Stephen K. Bannon of Breitbart rounds out this information with the following statement: “Throughout ten Democratic Party debates, Establishment Media have not asked Hillary Clinton a single question about she and her husband’s for-profit education scam.”
It wouldn’t matter if they had, Hillary doesn’t answer questions. Nevertheless, the FBI is on the case.
Aw, what the heck. Speaking of education, here’s your Sunday morning giggle—
http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-to-do-with-250-copies-of-book-of.html
The Clintons are what’s known in the South as Trailer Trash. (Apologies to all those who live in trailers – you have much more class!)
Neither Bubba nor $hrilLIARy never met a ca$h scam they didn’t like. Much more fodder here than for ANY accusations regarding Trump U.
Just based on the quoted portion of the Breitbart article you cited, I see no evidence of illegal or even unethical behavior. The scandal of Trump University is that students did not get anywhere close to the education they were promised; is there any evidence that this was true of Laureate Education? According to Wikipedia both Condaleeza Rice and Tony Blair have spoken at universities affiliated with this group. The article also uses lots of words like “funneled” or “pumped” to describe what seems like a normal process of donations in order to make it sound sinister, but provides no evidence of anything shady.
This seems like an attempt by Breitbart (which threw its own reporter, Michelle Fields, under the bus to save Trump) to deflect from Trump U and Trump’s disgusting comments that the judge presiding over the case can’t be trusted because he’s Mexican. (But wait, I thought Mexicans loved Trump? Is he saying there is something anti-Mexican about his statements and proposals? Who would have thunk!) By this logic a Muslim judge or a female judge would also have to recuse themselves from any Trump-related case. Suggesting judges recuse themselves due to their minority status is a slippery slope, which is why it isn’t done.
If you have a reliable source that provides actual evidence of unethical activity here I’d love to see it. But so far this just seems like a convenient way for you to ignore the serious charges against Trump’s scam, and for you to say “They do it too!”
Yet students bragged on video how great they did from the schooling they got one suees so others followed it was mostly about $$$$
Ok, read the full Breitbart piece. In the lede it claims that the school has faced “criminal investigations,” but doesn’t back this up. A search of “Laureate education criminal investigation” turned up nothing but the Breitbart piece. Do you have evidence that Laureate is the subject of criminal investigations?
And where are the students saying they have been the victims of a scam? Where are the lawsuits? Do you and Breitbart not understand that this is the scandal of Trump university–people saying they were ripped off and not given the education they were promised?
National Review quotes many of Trump U’s victims. Where are the equivalents from Laureate?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432010/trump-university-scam
Apparently Trump thinks a Muslim judge might be unfair to him too:
Donald J. Trump said Sunday that a Muslim judge might have trouble remaining neutral in a lawsuit against him, extending his race-based criticism of the jurist overseeing the case to include religion.
His remarks, in an interview with John Dickerson, the host of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” come amid growing disapproval from fellow Republicans over his attacks on Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, a federal judge in California overseeing a suit against the defunct Trump University, whose impartiality Mr. Trump questioned based on the judge’s Mexican heritage.
Mr. Trump has called Judge Curiel, who was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants, a “Mexican” and said he has a “conflict of interest” in the case because of Mr. Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico.
Mr. Dickerson asked Mr. Trump if, in his view, a Muslim judge would be similarly biased because of the Republican presumptive nominee’s call for a ban on Muslim immigrants. “It’s possible, yes,” Mr. Trump said. “Yeah. That would be possible. Absolutely.”
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The candidate’s broadside against Judge Curiel was one of the most overtly racial remarks he has made in the presidential race, and it has been roundly criticized by prominent Republicans.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, did not directly answer a question about whether the remark was racist, but said he completely disagreed with it. “All of us came here from somewhere else,” Mr. McConnell said in reference to Judge Curiel’s heritage. “That’s an important part of what makes America work.”
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, a Republican who had been floated as a potential vice presidential nominee alongside Mr. Trump, said on ABC News’s “This Week” of Mr. Trump’s behavior: “I think that he’s going to have to change.” And Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who has been among Mr. Trump’s most vocal supporters, called Mr. Trump’s remarks about Judge Curiel “inexcusable” on “Fox News Sunday.”
“This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made,” Mr. Gingrich said.
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/politics/could-a-muslim-judge-be-trump-neutral-trump-thinks-not.amp.html?client=safari#
Gee, why would so many diverse people from so many different identity groups have a bias against Trump? Has Trump previously said offensive things about these groups of people? I simply can’t imagine.
Re : “Just based on the quoted portion of the Breitbart article you cited, I see no evidence of illegal or even unethical behavior.”
Which is precisely why the FBI is — or should be — investigating and not a politically motivated, sycophantic progressive toad like Chris.
The Clinton University scam is a much bigger story and part of the larger story of Clinton Foundations activities while Clinton was Secretary of State. (Remember too, the expectation in 2008 was that she would be president)
The LA Times offers extensive coverage of possible criminal activity:
If the Arabs are going to deal with ISIS themselves, they’re gonna need stuff.
Or, we could be arming yet another party that turns round and chomps our butt, who knows? Theoretically, Hillary does. However, it can be categorically stated with absolute certainty that The ELE does not.
And if it’s any consolation, I read something recently about how much trouble assorted
Oil States are in, assessing Venezuela, Nigeria and Saudi A. The Sauds got good marks for a solid grasp of the problem and a willingness to make changes to their economy. That’s sensible. I like us only to send fighter jets to sensible parties.
And we will not be accepting rather bald-butted, pre-election muck-raking, without serious scrutiny.
“If the Arabs are going to deal with ISIS themselves, they’re gonna need stuff.”
Yeah, that’s exactly what you would have said if Romney had done this, right Libby?
“The Sauds got good marks for a solid grasp of the problem and a willingness to make changes to their economy. ”
You mean they finally got smart about cutting subsidies? Agreed. Their total dependence on oil has to change before they will see any real change in their economy.
Trump is a natural visceral, response to the deep doo doo piled up from what the left’s been peddling for decades. When people have finally had enough good manners go out the window with tolerance. A much deserved punch in the nose to follow.
A university (Latin: universitas, “a whole”) is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which grants academic degrees in various subjects.
Trump erred when he chose to use the term “university” for what amounts to a series of seminars. One’s expectation would be high just because of what we associate with that word. But if you look at almost any commercial advertisement you will find this hardly represents anything unusual. Like any other similar course, a lot depends on what you bring to it and how much you apply yourself as well as the actual information and inspiration provided in the seminar. People always have different experiences with some being much more well received than others. Buyer beware.
I find it unusual that a massage therapist would choose to do several $100.00 to $600.00 real estate based seminars and then upon completion, be so “uninspired” that she would go ahead and spend thousands more. Therefore i find this suit suspect.
I also find it suspect that the judge in the case is associated with La Raza:
Trump claims he’s being “railroaded by the legal system.” It’s quite possible that he’s right. jlaforums quotes from an American Spectator article:
A related Spectator article is here:
Stinky, stinky, stinky.
And, of course, this isn´t the only connection in the case against Trump University that would raise eyebrows, at the very least, or lead one to wonder if this isn´t just a big charade – witch hunt – aimed at trashing the presumed GOP nominee.
As The American Spectator reports, several other key players in the lawsuit have some interesting ties to Democrats.
Ok, we’ll get him a nice WASP, who will then find him guilty of fraud.
Only we won’t. Trump will be convicted by the judge assigned to the case, because rascist slurs cast by defendant are not grounds for recusal. Just the opposite. In fact, defendant better shut his big fat yap, because none of us, not even libeled judges, can be entirely, perfectly, stoicly mpartial.
I’ve heard that The ELE has actually spoken in public about getting libel laws changed, so he can throw journalists and such like impertinent people in prison … like that despot in Turkey does. Oh, the Republic, she is in some DEEP Doo-Doo.
An activist judge who has openly advocated for Trumps rival, Hillary Clinton, SHOULD recuse himself. Since he has not, he deserves the derision.
Has the judge done that? Trump has not said so, and I doubt it. Judges tend to be circumspect about public politicizing.
Trump objects to the judge entirely on the basis of his ethnic heritage. Cokie Roberts informs us that if Trump’s lawyers file such an objection they would face professional sanctions. Which is why all we have, and will ever have, is the blow hard … blowing hard.
Meant to post this on Saturday:
Bernie Sanders: “Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships… yeah I do.”
Judge Curiel has not advocated for Hillary Clinton. Stop lying.
And Trump didn’t say the judge should recuse himself because he supports Hillary. He said he should recuse himself because he is Mexican. That is racist, by definition.
Don’t vote for a racist.
According to the NYT in a sympathy piece in defense of the judge, Trump has said the following:
Trump did not say something like, “that dirty Mexican judge,” which would be a racist slur. He expressed valid and reasonable concern that a judge that sits in a case against him has a personal bias due to his his heritage and association with la Raza. He may know more about the judge than any of us…I sure would if I were being sued, my lawyer would see to it!
The American Freedom Party posted the following which includes a document from the La Raza Lawyers Association:
Geez, you people are losing it.
You might as well say that members of the Sons of Knute must recuse themselves from suits involving Lutherans.
It is becoming more and more apparent that the founding principles don’t, and never did, mean anything to you.
Bullsh*t.
The case is not about Trump’s wall. It is about Trump’s alleged scamming via Trump University. There is no evidence that Judge Curial would allow his own opinions of Trump to override his judgement in this case.
And it remains prima facie racist to assert that someone’s ethnic heritage makes them unfit to rule on a case. Even Erick Erickson can see that.
Also, La Raza is not “anti-white.” The American Freedom Party, which you cite, sure is anti-minority and anti-Semitic though:
“The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a third position American political party that promotes white nationalism.[1][2][3][4]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party
But keep pretending there is no racism among the Trump crowd.
You’ve been lying down with dogs so long you’re crawling with fleas.