The Trump University debacle just took another nasty turn for the presumptive GOP candidate for president and a new report shows that Trump resorted to bribing politicians in order get away with scamming Americans.
he Associated Press reports that Donald Trump allegedly donated $35,000 to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s 2012 gubernatorial campaign after then-Texas Attorney General Abbott dropped the state’s case against Trump University.
As Texas’ AG, Abbott’s office had opened a civil investigation into Trump U’s “possibly deceptive trade practices” in the state, but agreed to quietly drop the case after the organization agreed to leave Texas. Abbott’s office built a $5.4 million settlement case against Trump’s organization for duping Texan Trump U students out of $2.6 million, but the case was never filed.
John Owens, former deputy director of Abbott’s Consumer Protection Division, alleges the decision was purely political that left Texas consumers “high and dry” with no recourse:
“The decision not to sue him was political. Had [Trump] not been involved in politics to the extent he was at the time, we would have gotten approval. Had he been just some other scam artist, we would have sued him.”
Subsequently, after the case was quietly buried, Trump dropped the sizeable donation into Abbott’s campaign coffers.
But the plot thickens. Abbott wasn’t the only Republican Attorney General to receive a large campaign donation after dropping the case against Trump U.
Read More: http://news.groopspeak.com/breaking-trump-accused-by-associated-press-of-giving-bribes-to-texas-governor/
Read More: http://news.groopspeak.com/breaking-trump-accused-by-associated-press-of-giving-bribes-to-texas-governor/
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