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John Oliver Slams Shady Trump University—An Apt Metaphor for His Campaign - Watch FULL Video
- Published_at:2016-06-06
- Category:Comedy
- Channel:MAXI POWER
- tags: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Last Week Tonight John Oliver HBO HBO Last Week Tonight HBO John Oliver Last Week Tonight 6/5/2016 Donald Trump John Oliver Donald Trump Trump University John Oliver Trump University Wolf Blitzer John Oliver Wolf Blitzer Debt Buyers John Oliver Debt Buyers John Oliver TV History John Oliver Slams Shady Trump University
- description: The host of HBO’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ tore into Trump’s alleged scam that advised its salespeople, “You don’t sell products, benefits, or solutions—you sell feelings.” This week, after being called out by Bill Maher and a host of others, TV news hosts arose from a year-long slumber to actually do their jobs and challenge presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump in interviews. First came CNN’s Jake Tapper, who questioned Trump’s claim that Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over two cases against his Trump University and requested that a cache of case documents be released, is “biased” because of his “Mexican heritage.” Tapper asked Trump 23 times that if he thinks Curiel—who was born in Indiana to a blue-collar father, took on the cartels, and was appointed to the bench by a Republican—couldn’t do his job because of his “ethnicity,” isn’t that the very definition of racism? Trump stammered on, repeating the claim that because he’s “building a wall” between the U.S. and Mexico, Curiel cannot perform his job properly due to his Mexican heritage. “Jake, I’m building a wall, OK? I’m building a wall. I’m trying to keep business out of Mexico. Mexico is fine. There’s nothing…” said Trump. “But he’s an… he’s an American,” Tapper replied. “He’s of Mexican heritage, and he’s very proud of it—as I am where I come from…” offered Trump. Cue John Oliver on Last Week Tonight. “Wait—where exactly are you from?” he asked. “Because you look like you came out of a clogged drain at the Wonka Factory, and that’s great… I think that’s fine. But think about what he’s implying there: the judge is unfit to do his job because of his ethnic background.” And Trump’s bigotry doesn’t just extend to Latino judges, either. On Face the Nation, John Dickerson asked Trump, “If you had a Muslim judge, do you also feel like they wouldn’t be able to treat you fairly because of that [temporary Muslim travel ban] policy of yours?” “Uh… it’s possible, yes,” answered Trump. “That would be possible. Absolutely.” “I would say that’s the dictionary definition of bigotry, except after this campaign the definition of bigotry might just become See: Trump, Donald,” joked the HBO host. Gonzalo Curiel, the judge Trump has repeatedly slandered and insulted, indeed ordered a collection of documents to be unsealed this week, and in them came many disturbing revelations. Trump had promised his students that the teachers were “handpicked” by The Donald, but that didn’t seem to be the case. “Trump University wasn’t even a university, which makes you wonder: what the fuck was in Trump Steaks?” said Oliver. “But the name was just the beginning, because remember how he had ‘handpicked instructors?’ Well, according to his own depositions, he did not personally select instructors for live seminars, and was unable to recall the names of key faculty members,” said Oliver. “And it doesn’t stop there,” he continued. “According to the sworn testimony by several former employees, many instructors and mentors had no experience buying and selling real estate. In fact, one had worked as a salesman for Lowe’s, and another had been manager for Buffalo Wild Wings. And even a member of Trump’s own sales staff testified that it was, among other things, ‘a joke… a façade… and it was just selling false hopes and lies.’” Trump University also had a series of “playbooks” used to coach its salespeople on how to squeeze every last dollar out of prospective students.
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