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Let’s Make a Movie About Trump’s Scams.

Mike Weisser
3 min readMay 5, 2024

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Is it in the least bit possible to come up with a movie script that could be more sensationally funny than a script which would tie together Donald Trump’s long history of fraudulent business activities with yesterday’s SEC announcement about the accounting firm that was hired to produce the filings for Trump’s social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns and operates his Truth Social website?

We can start the script all the way back in 2005, when a new educational institution, Trump University, opened its campus and registered students to take the unique curriculum offered by the school.

In fact, the school didn’t have a campus. The so-called classes met in whatever space could be rented in an office building where the students would be given a quick lesson on how they could learn the secret strategies that Trump used to make millions in real estate if they would ante up $35,000 to join a program which would turn them into self-made millionaires.

What it turned them into were suckers who owed their credit cards $35,000, and when they finally realized that the whole thing was a scam, a bunch of them sued Trump for fraud and the so-called University settled the suit out of court and then went out of business in 2016.

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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