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" The brightest shiny object in the news today is that David Duke, The Last Klansman, seems to be involved with some robocalls in which He, Trump is portrayed as the last hope of the white race.\u00A0 OK, so morons gotta moron.\u00A0 Of greater concern to the Trump campaign, and to the political party that it has hijacked so effectively, ought to be this lawsuit concerning the alleged multi-state bunco operation known as Trump University. In court filings last Friday, lawyers for both sides in a long-running civil lawsuit over the now defunct Trump University named Trump on their witness lists. That makes it all but certain that the reality-show star and international businessman will be forced to be grilled under oath over allegations in the lawsuit that he engaged in deceptive trade practices and scammed thousands of students who enrolled in his &amp;quot;university&amp;quot; courses in response to promises he would make them rich in the real estate market. Although the case has been winding its way through the courts for the past five years \u2014 and Trump has denied all wrongdoing \u2014 the final pretrial conference is now slated for May 6, according to the latest pleadings in the case. No trial date has been set, but the judge has indicated his interest in moving the case forward, the pleadings show. &amp;quot;This is pretty amazing,&amp;quot; said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican Party consultant, about Trump&amp;#039;s upcoming due date in federal court. &amp;quot;Usually, you clean this stuff up before you run for president.&amp;quot; Phony universities are the scandal du jour, and Trump U. is a fine example of one. The core case revolves around the operations of a school Trump launched in 2005 with a promotional You Tube video, as well as ads that proclaimed, &amp;quot;I can turn anyone into a successful real estate investor, including you,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Are YOU My Next Apprentice?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Learn from my handpicked experts how you can profit from the largest real estate liquidation in history.&amp;quot; The plaintiffs, former students at Trump University, allege they were misled into maxing out their credit cards and paying up to $60,000 in fees for seminars in hotel ballrooms and &amp;quot;mentoring&amp;quot; by Trump&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;hand-picked&amp;quot; real estate experts. The lawsuit against the school, which is no longer in business, alleges the seminars turned into little more than an &amp;quot;infomercial&amp;quot; and the Trump mentors offered &amp;quot;no practical advice&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;mostly disappeared.&amp;quot; New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a separate suit in 2013 alleging fraud on the part of the &amp;quot;university,&amp;quot; which was never an accredited institution and awarded no degrees. So far, the defense case can be summed up in the maxim of common law which, translated from the Latin, can be read as &amp;quot;Sorry, suckers.&amp;quot;\u00A0 &amp;quot;None of it is true. No one was defrauded,&amp;quot; said Alan Garten, the Trump Organization&amp;#039;s general counsel, in an interview about the allegations last year. &amp;quot;The people that take these classes go into it with their eyes open. A lot of people did very well [with Trump University]. A lot of people enjoyed it. But like everything else, if people don&amp;#039;t put the effort into it, they don&amp;#039;t succeed.&amp;quot; This is such an amazing goddamn election. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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