With her campaign sinking in the polls, Hillary Clinton has launched a desperate attack against Trump University to deflect attention away from her deep involvement with a controversial for-profit college that made the Clintons millions, even as the school faced serious legal scrutiny and criminal investigations.
In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. Progressive billionaire George Soros is also a Laureate financial backer.
As the Washington Post reports, “Laureate has stirred controversy throughout Latin America, where it derives two-thirds of its revenue.” During Bill Clinton’s tenure as Laureate’s chancellor, the school spent over $200 million a year on aggressive telemarketing, flashy Internet banner ads, and billboards designed to lure often unprepared students from impoverished countries to enroll in its for-profit classes. The goal: get as many students, regardless of skill level, signed up and paying tuition.
“I meet people all the time who transfer here when they flunk out elsewhere,” agronomy student Arturo Bisono, 25, told the Post. “This has become the place you go when no one else will accept you.”
Others, like Rio state legislator Robson Leite who led a probe into Bill Clinton’s embattled for-profit education scheme, say the company is all about extracting cash, not educating students. “They have turned education into a commodity that focuses more on profit than knowledge,” said Leite.
Progressives have long excoriated for-profit education companies for placing profits over quality pedagogy. Still, for five years, Bill Clinton allowed his face and name to be plastered all over Laureate’s marketing materials. As Clinton Cash reported, pictures of Bill Clinton even lined the walkways at campuses like Laureate’s Bilgi University in Istanbul, Turkey. That Laureate has campuses in Turkey is odd, given that for-profit colleges are illegal there, as well as in Mexico and Chile where Laureate also operates.
Shortly after Bill Clinton’s lucrative 2010 Laureate appointment, Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. began pumping millions of its USAID dollars to a sister nonprofit, International Youth Foundation (IYF), which is run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker. Indeed, State Dept. funding skyrocketed once Bill Clinton got on the Laureate payroll, according to Bloomberg:
A Bloomberg examination of IYF’s public filings show that in 2009, the year before Bill Clinton joined Laureate, the nonprofit received 11 grants worth $9 million from the State Department or the affiliated USAID. In 2010, the group received 14 grants worth $15.1 million. In 2011, 13 grants added up to $14.6 million. The following year, those numbers jumped: IYF received 21 grants worth $25.5 million, including a direct grant from the State Department.
Throughout ten Democratic Party debates, Establishment Media have not asked Hillary Clinton a single question about she and her husband’s for-profit education scam.
ht/ all too much
The MSM will make sure Trump U is the worst thing in the history of the world.
How many people died at TU?
How many people died as a direct result of HRC?
Jeff Lord at american Spectator has an in depth look at the ridiculous lawsuit against Trump. The judge, appointed by Obama/Jarrett, is a huge LaRaza supporter. Both of the plaintiff’s side law firms are big contributors to the dems. The original plaintiff previously commended Trump, on video and in writing, and was removed from the case BY THE JUDGE!
It’s lawfare meant to distract from Hillary’s enormous problems. In the old days when the alphabets could highlight this kind of bullshit and omit information that would damage their choice, Hillary’s attack would have worked. Those days are gone.
Meanwhile Karl Biden sez: ” I was thinkin’, I’m gonna take me some of them taters home with me…Mmm, Mmm”
Well, it isn’t just Trump U. that Hillary’s attacking. Anybody see her desperate, pathetic media event in which she accused Trump of being a liar, a threat to our nation’s security, and “thin-skinned?”
That’s rich!
I saw a bit of her remarks at work, where there’s a screen in the waiting area that alternates between CNN and informational court videos. I was apoplectic for the rest of the day.
Trump’s a liar? Madame, I trust you so very little that if you were to tell me the sky was blue, I would immediately seek independent confirmation. And which of the two of you had top-secret information on an unsecured server, thereby being the bigger threat to national secuity? And as for Trump’s “thin skin,” I’ll take that any day over your lying, greed, overentitlement, incompetence, and laziness.
Reading about this spectacle yesterday, I reached the conclusion that Hillary is utterly desperate. It won’t be pretty as her goal slips further and further from her grasp. I plan to double my holdings in popcorn futures.
I truly hope that Sanders kicks her fat ass next Tuesday.
Yeah. Let’s talk about business fraud, Little Miss Whitewater. I mean Cattle Futures. I mean Travelgate.
And on and on and on.
“They have turned education into a commodity that focuses more on profit than knowledge.”
The Publicly funded US University system has been doing the very same thing since the 70s and have made an art form of extracting more dollars from the government and students to pad administrator, professor and union salaries. At the same time supplying inferior education and fomenting progressive/socialist ideology.
Propaganda is king, Knowledge is the bastard child.
Believe me, Donald J. Trump knows all about what is going on with all of this stuff. But he keeps his message simple, knowing that if he gets into the detail weeds it will be a big morass of grime. Stephan Miller, who often opens his rallies has been reading large excerpts from “Clinton Cash”. But Trump has said on the stump that ‘somethings’ really wrong with American education (more than Common Core), education funding (and how the gov’t and schools are in collusion), and the end result of both.
Fear not. Trump is on it. I hope more people here start to figure that out and stop being fearful about his smarts and intentions.
Yah know what, There are times when I would prefer Trump not spurt out his thoughts but his direction for America is spot on. I don’t understand the kool aide the Clinton supporters are taking – maybe 8 more years of no jobs, no strong fearful America, – REst of World doesn’t see us as the “Worlds greatest Country” and they aren’t afraid. Foreign policy and Open Trade that doesn’t protect Americans is not what America should have. No more Obama he is more interested in traveling the world then fixing what is in his back yard – Clintons are the same just crooks and frauds (both of them as they will both be in the white house again). Bernie – No way Socialism will ever work in America.