Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons

[riversedge]

Trump's a thief in addition to being a big LIAR!



Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur



By JONATHAN MARTINJUNE 29, 2016


...........As with Trump University, the Trump Institute promised falsely that its teachers would be handpicked by Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump did little, interviews show, besides appear in an infomercial — one that promised customers access to his vast accumulated knowledge. “I put all of my concepts that have worked so well for me, new and old, into our seminar,” he said in the 2005 video, adding, “I’m teaching what I’ve learned.”

Reality fell far short. In fact, the institute was run by a couple who had run afoul of regulators in dozens of states and had been dogged by accusations of deceptive business practices and fraud for decades. Similar complaints soon emerged about the Trump Institute.

Yet there was an even more fundamental deceit to the business, unreported until now: Extensive portions of the materials that students received after paying their seminar fees, supposedly containing Mr. Trump’s special wisdom, had been plagiarized from an obscure real estate manual published a decade earlier.................




An Example of the Copied Text

At least 20 pages of the Trump Institute instructional book were copied
entirely or in large part from a book in a set titled “Real Estate Mastery
System.” Highlighted here is an example of some of what was duplicated.
From the book published first in 1995 by Success magazine





Real Estate Mastery System: Mortgage and Finance, Success magazine

[jberryhill]

1. I never understood these "I'll teach you how to get rich" things

I remember the first one I saw when I was around 12, in the back pages of some magazine. A friend of mine showed it to me and wanted to know if I'd chip in to buy whatever it was - some booklet that would unlock the secrets to wealth or whatever.

The immediate thought I had was, "If he's so rich and wants to share what he knows, then why is he selling a subscription to his course?" I mean, what's the point, unless the course consists of "Step 1 - sell a course telling people how to get rich."

And this was before that nitwit with the "teeny little classified ads".

I always wanted to run a magazine classified as that said, "You'll be shocked and amazed by what you will get by sending $5 and a self addressed stamped envelope to..." And then send them back a letter saying, "You don't get jack shit! Amazing, eh?"

[Doctor Jack]

2. Why does nothing from this scumbag surprise me anymore?

We could have reports that he injects himself with kitten blood everyday so that he is ready to "pounce like a cat" and I would think "yeah, that sounds about right".

[riversedge]

3. My hope is that the accumulation of con-man stuff will eventually stick. Seems some is

as the more recent polls all seem to say he is losing voters.