23 Facts About Trump Entrepreneur Initiative

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative offered courses in real estate, asset management, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University was the subject of two class actions in federal court.

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The lawsuits centered around allegations that Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University defrauded its students by using misleading marketing practices and engaging in aggressive sales tactics.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative instead decided he wanted to be the principal owner.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative testified in a 2012 deposition that he never selected the instructors for the program.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative himself was not involved in the operation of the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative Institute, but he recorded a broadcast infomercial promoting it and appeared in an introductory video before each seminar.

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Three lawsuits were filed asserting that Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University engaged in a variety of illegal business practices, ranging from false claims to racketeering.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative filed a complaint alleging that the state Attorney General's investigation was accompanied by a campaign donation shakedown; the complaint was investigated by a New York ethics board and dismissed in August 2015.

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Abbott's communications director called the charge "absurd", and Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University "disputed that its classes were deceptive".

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative narrowed the case to five of the plaintiffs' original 14 charges.

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Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative Organization, said Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University would appeal Curiel's ruling, which he said showed a "manifest disregard for the law".

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In October 2015, Garten said Trump Entrepreneur Initiative would ask Curiel to recuse himself because of his "animosity toward Mr Trump Entrepreneur Initiative and his views".

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative noted that they were "routine" and many were already publicly available.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative said Curiel should recuse himself, although his attorneys said they did not plan to ask for the judge to be removed from the case.

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Curiel's only comment was to write in a procedural ruling that Trump Entrepreneur Initiative has "placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue".

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The settlement specified that Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, who had previously vowed he would never settle, did not admit to any wrongdoing.

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In 2018, Trump Entrepreneur Initiative nominated Morales to serve as a judge at the District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative denied the donation was connected to the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University lawsuit, saying it was for Bondi's performance as Attorney General.

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19.

Trump Entrepreneur Initiative's promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

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20.

Trump Entrepreneur Initiative responded that Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University was "a small business" and student evaluations were overwhelmingly positive.

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21.

Trump Entrepreneur Initiative said lawsuits were a routine part of business and that he wins most of them.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University was the subject of a week-long series in the comic strip Doonesbury in June 2005.

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Trump Entrepreneur Initiative University was the butt of jokes in a Will and Grace mini-episode released in September 2016, created to get out the vote for the 2016 presidential election.

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