Why the judge in Trump's fraud trial may have a heavy penalty in mind

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MS NOW, Alex Wagner

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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 everybody else lives in.
0:08.3	At Trump University we teach success.
0:13.3	That's what it's all about.
0:14.7	Success.
0:15.8	It's going to happen to you.
0:18.0	That was Donald Trump's pitch for Trump University
0:20.4	two decades ago.
0:22.1	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
1:03.8	sales team coached them on how to market the courses even to single mothers with
1:08.1	three children 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.
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