If you are wondering what Trump testifying under oath looks like, here is a clip from Mother Jones

[demmiblue]

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During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with federal lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of Trump’s financial success. As part of the lawsuit, Trump sat for a contentious six-hour deposition in Trump Tower on December 10, 2015. He subsequently managed to get the court to seal the video recording of the session.

But Mother Jones has now obtained the full video of Trump’s deposition. The written transcript of the session was released in June 2016, but the video version includes several exchanges that likely would have not played well for Trump if they had become public when he was chasing votes. Had the video deposition been released during the campaign, it probably would have yielded ammo for anti-Trump ads.

The video shows Trump parrying with the lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jason Forge, over various issues, including false statements made by Trump University employees and Trump’s own memory. Trump at one point griped, “It’s the most ridiculous lawsuit I’ve ever seen.” He claimed not to remember having boasted that he possessed one of the best memories in the world and repeatedly said he could not recall matters related to the fraud case. He downplayed false and misleading statements presented by Trump University instructors as merely “hyperbole,” refusing to label them “false.” He even disavowed a passage from one of his own books in which he had assailed educational institutions for committing “fraud.”

Mother Jones was provided the video by a source who asked not to be identified. Art Cohen, who was a lead plaintiff in one of the lawsuits against Trump University and Trump, confirmed that this was the actual video of the deposition. (Last month, Mother Jones posted a video of a conversation that occurred during a break in these proceedings between Trump and Dan Petrocelli, Trump’s attorney, in which Trump boasted of threatening the Better Business Bureau to change the D grade it awarded Trump University to an A.)

Trump University shut down in 2010. Though Trump vowed during the 2016 campaign that he would never settle the Trump U lawsuits, days after the 2016 election, he did just that. He paid the students $25 million, without acknowledging any wrongdoing.

[kentuck]

1. Is that a video from 2015?

That is not yesterday, correct?

[demmiblue]

5. Correct.

I updated the OP to make it more clear.

[kentuck]

7. It's definitely telling.

He looks so ... ... guilty.

[olegramps]

11. It is the Gold Standard for Republicans. Just standard for these crooks and liars.

[BSdetect]

2. Malignant narcissist to a tee.

[brewens]

3. I saw that a couple years ago and was going to go hunt it up. Thanks. :) It's so clear he didn't

know squat about anyone supposedly running that thing.

He may have actually thought Trump U. was an okay thing if you think about it. I mean you get a diploma from TFG with his name right on it! Like some of the people that fell for it who had it coming to them. They watched The Apprentice and thought running though his school would make them like some of the asswipes that did well on there. I bet it worked out real well for them. LOL Some of them didn't deserve a feakin' dime back.

[2naSalit]

6. I know someone who...

Paid to attend a seminar offered by that outfit. They said all that was imparted were ways to beat the system by constantly moving money around so it can't be found and so that it looks like a lot more than it is when necessary. That was it, a total rip off, as one might expect.

[Vinca]

4. And that is why Trump parted with $25 million to "Trump University" students.

What a wise ass. It's pretty clear if that had gone before a jury those people would have gotten a whole lot more.

[flying_wahini]

8. Just hearing his smug self righteous answers instantly pisses me off.

Can’t stand even to look at him. Hope they get him.

He sounds like he has been coached for weeks, too.

[twodogsbarking]

9. Oh wait, here is a better one.

[ShazzieB]

10. That was great!

If that machine was real, and TFG was hooked up to it, how long do you think it wold take for it to burst into flames?

[Aviation Pro]

12. What a weak, fucking excuse of a man

No wonder he needs babysitters.

[drmeow]

13. If I was on a jury

and they showed a clip like that and some if the others of anyone my immediate reaction would be "he's lying - I should not trust a word he says." This is why he's a malignant narcissist rather than a psychopathic personality disorder. The later could be just as non-forthcoming but convince you he was telling the truth. Trump isn't slick enough and is too much of a petulant baby to be able to do that.

[marble falls]

14. Exactly why those films are not entered into a trial as 'evidence'.