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kind of upsell situation to get people to pay for a year-long workshop where they had to pay $35,000. here is what s funny. during that three-day seminar, speakers urged students to go out there on these breaks and call their credit card company to request increase necessary their credit limits. what the lawsuit is saying is this is so students could sink more money into even more classes at trump university. the lawsuits claims interesting. they lead like a lawsuit list of accusations. students were misled to believe trump would make an appearance. instead of getting a picture with him, they wound up getting a picture with a life-size picture of trump. not even the cardboard thing. maybe it was cardboard. it didn t come close to having him in the flesh there. i ve been reading trump has been responding. it s always fiery. his attorneys responded.
menu of accusations. saying in part that the university which attorney general eric snyderman says wasn t a licensed university at all. that it was a sham. it lured prospective students to get into a free 90-minute seminar that was just a sales pitch to get them into a three-day $1500 seminar and that once they were in that three-day seminar it became what the lawsuit calls an upsell to pay for yet another year long seminar that costs $35,000. one thing interesting that i saw in this lawsuit, fredericka, is that schneiderman is that the speakers who were teaching the students urge the students and call their credit card companies during breaks in the sessions to request increases in their credit limits for what the speakers said were real estate transactions. what the state is saying it was so students could buy even more classes with this trump university. oh, my, okay, so what s the response coming from donald trump himself? okay, well, one lawyer talked with cnn saying that the
students were in this three-day seminar, it became what calls an upsell to pay for yet another year-long seminar of $35,000. the lawsuit also says that during that three-day seminar, speakers actually urged students to call their credit card companies in the breaks to request increases in the limits but the lawsuit says in reality it was so students could buy even more classes at trump university. now, donald trump tweeted his response saying this. that lightweight new york state attorney general is trying to extort me with a civil lawsuit. we also spoke with trump s attorney saying that the suit has no merit and no more than a cheap publicity stunt to deflect from the weak job performance and that 98% of trump s former students were satisfied with their experience. fredericka? all right. thanks so much, alison kosik, in new york. former boxing champ mike tyson admits to being a vicious