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Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says

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The President is outright conning people. Who can support this crap?

The 160-page complaint says Mr. Trump and his family received secret payments from three business entities in exchange for promoting them as legitimate opportunities, when in reality they were get-rich-quick schemes that harmed investors, many of whom were unsophisticated and struggling financially.

Those business entities were ACN, a telecommunications marketing company that paid Mr. Trump millions of dollars to endorse its products; the Trump Network, a vitamin marketing enterprise; and the Trump Institute, which offered “extravagantly priced multiday training seminars” on Mr. Trump’s real estate “secrets.”
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Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says
 
Never heard of any actor who endorsed a product for a fee being liable before. Why would it be any different for Trump?
 
joko104 said:
Never heard of any actor who endorsed a product for a fee being liable before. Why would it be any different for Trump?
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- If it was a criminal racket and he had sufficient knowledge of it, that can be a crime. That's what the lawsuit alleges. A pattern of racketeering.
- They also appear to be referring to fraud, again, if he was aware of something and it wasn't disclosed, this may be open him up to legal exposure

- the timing and funding appears to be political, they may be taking a long shot here to highlight bad behavior, that may or may not actually be criminal
- This is just one in a long string of lawsuits against Trump for a variety of allegations of fraud, his phony Trump Foundation that's violated dozens of laws, his Trump University Scam etc.

At worst, they are simply raising public awareness of Trump's pattern of conning average Americans just so he can make a buck. Not that most Americans dont' know...some just are unethical enough that they won't admit it matters.
 
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