[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 82 (Tuesday, May 24, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H2974]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
TRUMP'S RECORD OF FAILURE
(Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I am here to talk about the failed business
record of likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. His own failed
company, Trump Mortgage, actually pushed homeowners into subprime
mortgages. Donald Trump not only lost money himself and his company
went out of business, but millions of hardworking Americans also lost
their homes during the housing crisis.
I also want to talk about his scam university that he set up, Trump
University. The State of New York said it is illegal to use the name
``university'' because you are not running a university. He then
changed the name before it went out of business.
It is also being sued by many of its students, who paid up to
$35,000, thinking, as it said in the informercials, that Trump had
handpicked the instructors. But according to Donald Trump's own
deposition, he never selected the instructors for the program. In fact,
he hadn't even met most of them and didn't even know who they were.
That is why, in 2014, a New York judge found Donald Trump personally
liable for operating the company without the required business license.
Look, what a track record: losing money, forcing subprime loans on
Americans and taking money from hardworking Americans, and then going
out of business with his fake university company. This is Donald
Trump's record of failure.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would remind Members to refrain
from engaging in personalities toward presumptive nominees for the
Office of President.
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