Perhaps a lack of a logical defense is the reason he "didn't fill out the paperwork". I don't really care that much ..... just adding my two cents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy
Perhaps a lack of a logical defense is the reason he "didn't fill out the paperwork". I don't really care that much ..... just adding my two cents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy
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Moderators need to stop with the gotchas & causing bickering. What are the plans for Keystone XL pipeline from these candidates among many other topics they should be asking to better inform us?
Unlike you and I, Donald Trump supports the Keystone Pipeline.Quote:
Keystone will try again once O is out of office. There are pages & pages of eminent domain land ready to be taken from us for this Canadian project with pipes that could break at anytime. Trump is a businessman, cruz in an oil lover - I would like to know because I could just not vote AGAIN if they are for it. Certainly could not pull the lever for hillary.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ge-keystone-xlQuote:
Donald Trump pledged to cancel the Paris climate agreement, endorsed drilling off the Atlantic coast and said he would allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built in return for “a big piece of the profits” for the American people.
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Donald Trump Brings TRP Stock Back to Life
Donald Trump gave a speech on energy in North Dakota recently. That speech highlighted Trump’s willingness to bring the Keystone pipeline deal back to the spotlight in exchange for a portion of the profits from TransCanada.
Many in the industry have criticized Trump’s money demands
http://investorplace.com/2016/06/don.../#.WC_UU63SZQ8
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...-energy-224204Quote:
Donald Trump's vow to resuscitate the Keystone XL oil pipeline in exchange for a share of its profits has a glaring problem: It risks running afoul of laws against government takings of private property. And even supporters of the project warn that it risks hurting relations with Canada, the nation's No. 1 oil supplier.
The presumptive Republican nominee has repeatedly pledged to revive the Canada-to-Texas pipeline, a long-standing cause for Republicans in Congress, but Trump has brought a twist. He wants U.S. taxpayers to get a slice of the project's revenue.
"I want it built, but I want a piece of the profits," Trump said May 26 before delivering an energy speech to an oil-industry audience in North Dakota. "That's how we're going to make our country rich again."
No, they had a perfectly legally binding defense. People had 30 days to request a refund. What people were complaining about in the lawsuits anyway is they didn't a) request a refund within the 30 days per their contract b) didn't make any money in the real estate market during the GREAT RECESSION which started about the time some of them were finishing their classes. They're blaming Trump for an economic depression, no different than someone who graduated from college, any college, and couldn't find a job.Quote:
Originally Posted by MW
It's a shame this lawsuit wasn't dismissed. There was clear bias on the part of the Judge in California and obnoxious bias in the New York Case because of the Democrat Attorney General. Both cases were intertwined with all types of illegalities of conflict of interest on the part of the Judge in California, the attorney for the lawsuit plaintiffs and the Attorney General of New York.
And I'm confident that while Trump is going to settle the lawsuits themselves for the $25 million, this ain't over, he'll fix it. He won't get his money back but he'll fix the problem that led to it.
Trump agrees to $25M settlement to resolve Trump U. lawsuits
Friday, November 18th 2016, 9:40 pm EST
http://APMOBILE.images.worldnow.com/...12503118_G.jpg (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File). FILE- In this May 23, 2005 file photo, then real estate mogul and Reality TV star Donald Trump, left, listens as Michael Sexton introduces him at a news conference in New York.
By DAVID KLEPPER and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting.
The agreement came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled to begin in one of three cases. The complaints accused Trump University, which wasn't an accredited school, of defrauding students who paid up to $35,000 a year to enroll in programs that promised to share Trump's real estate secrets.
About 7,000 students would be eligible for refunds if U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel approves the proposed settlement. Under the terms, Trump admitted no wrongdoing in two class-action lawsuits in San Diego and a civil suit brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
The settlement lifts what would probably have been a major headache for Trump as he works to fill key executive branch positions and get acquainted with foreign leaders. The San Diego trial, on a case filed in 2010, was expected to last several weeks, guaranteeing daily news coverage of a controversy that dogged him during the campaign.
Trump's political rivals seized on the lawsuits to try to portray him as dishonest and deceitful. Trump brought more attention to them by repeatedly assailing Curiel, who oversaw the San Diego cases. Trump suggested the Indiana-born judge's Mexican heritage exposed a bias.
The thousands of former students covered by the San Diego lawsuits will be eligible to receive at least half and possibly all their money back, as much as $35,000, said Jason Forge, an attorney for the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs' attorneys waived their fees.
Trump has denied the allegations and said during the campaign that he would not settle. He told supporters at a May rally that he would come to San Diego to testify after winning the presidency.
"I could have settled this case numerous times but I don't want to settle cases when we're right. I don't believe in it. And when you start settling cases, you know what happens? Everybody sues you because you get known as a settler. One thing about me, I am not known as a settler," Trump said at the time.
Two days after the election, Trump's lead attorney in the San Diego cases, Daniel Petrocelli, said he was "all ears" to settlement talks and accepted an offer to have U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller of San Diego broker negotiations.
Forge said the agreement was reached an hour before a hearing for Curiel to weigh Trump's latest request to delay the trial until after the Jan. 20 inauguration. The plaintiffs' attorney said he "definitely detected a change of tone and change of approach" from Trump's camp after the election.
"We were at each other's throat for 6 ½ years and were able to find the common ground with them and do something good there," Forge told reporters.
Schneiderman called the agreement a "stunning reversal" for the president-elect, saying Trump "fought us every step of the way, filing baseless charges and fruitless appeals and refusing to settle for even modest amounts of compensation for the victims of his phony university. Today, that all changes."
Trump's attorneys said the settlement allows the president-elect to focus full attention on his transition to the White House.
"He was willing to sacrifice his personal interests, put this behind him, and move forward," Petrocelli said.
Alan Garten, the Trump Organization's general counsel, said he had "no doubt" Trump would have prevailed at trial.
The lawsuits allege that Trump University gave nationwide seminars that were like infomercials, constantly pressuring people to spend more and, in the end, failing to deliver on its promises. The San Diego trial would have been pinned on whether a nine-member jury believed Trump misled customers by calling the business a university and by advertising that he hand-picked instructors.
Court documents unsealed in May revealed strategies for enticing people to enroll even if they couldn't afford it. The documents outlined how employees should guide people through "the roller coaster of emotions" after they express interest and tells employees to be "very aggressive during these conversations to in order to push them out of their comfort zones."
Transcripts of about 10 hours of Trump depositions provided additional material to rivals, though Curiel denied a request to release video of Trump's testimony that would have likely been used in campaign attack ads. Trump acknowledged in the depositions that he played on people's fantasies, and he could not recall names of his employees despite his advertising pitch that he "hand-picked" them.
Trump has repeatedly claimed a 98 percent customer satisfaction rate on internal surveys. Plaintiffs countered that students were asked to rate the product when they believed they still had more instruction to come and were reluctant to openly criticize their teachers on surveys that were not anonymous.
The settlement comes a day after watchdog groups and ethics experts who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations sent a letter to Trump urging him to make a clean break from his business to avoid "embroiling the presidency in litigation."
One of the authors, Richard Painter, an ethics lawyer at the White House under President George W. Bush, said the Trump University settlement might backfire if lawyers think Trump is eager to settle to avoid court cases while president.
"The plaintiffs' lawyers," he said, "are going to smell blood in the water."
http://www.wistv.com/story/33742017/...suits?AID=7236