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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 01-11-2024-230940

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to tell you the story of two Americas.

0:03.3

The America that Donald Trump lives in and the America

0:06.2

everybody else lives in.

0:10.8

At Trump University, we teach success.

0:13.0

That's what it's all about.

0:15.0

Success. It's going to happen to you.

0:17.0

That was Donald Trump's pitch for Trump University, two decades ago.

0:22.0

He marketed his school as a shortcut to financial success. You just

0:27.5

had to pay him and his instructors first and then you would know everything you

0:32.4

needed to make it big. The only problem

0:36.0

was that it was all a scam. As a result, Trump eventually settled a civil fraud

0:41.6

case for 2525 million. And that case gave us real insight into how

0:48.2

Donald Trump views the average American.

0:52.4

Trump University, a series of for-profit real estate seminars launched in 2005.

0:58.0

Ads promised that Donald Trump would hand-pick the instructors, but as a rule he did not.

1:02.0

A set of playbooks for the sales team

1:04.4

coached them on how to market the courses even to single mothers with three children

1:08.8

who quote may need money for food. That is how Donald Trump sees America, a country that is just

1:15.5

filled with easy marks and fools to be scanned by a millionaire who deserves

1:22.0

their money more than their children need food.

1:27.2

At the same time, this is the America that everyone else lives in.

1:31.4

This is Francis Sharples. In 2022 she was scammed out of $655,000 from her retirement

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