>>> AMERICAāS NOW ROUGHLY TWO >>> AMERICAāS NOW ROUGHLY TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM DECIDING A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. DO YOU WANT FOUR MORE YEARS OF DONALD TRUMP? TRUMPāS FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WAS UNUSUAL BUT NOT ORIGINAL. HE LITERALLY PLAGIARIZED RONALD REAGANāS FAMOUS CAMPAIGN SLOGAN AND TOLD FANS HE WOULD MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. >> WEāRE GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. BELIEVE ME. >> WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. GOD BLESS YOU. >> THAT WAS THE PITCH. VINTAGE TRUMP. A BIG, BOLD PROMISE THATāS VAGUE ENOUGH TO MEAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING AND CRAFTED TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE PERFORMANCE NOT THE SUBSTANCE OR RESULTS. SO WHEN PEOPLE DO COMMIT TO THAT KIND OF TRUMP PITCH, IT CAN BE HARDER TO BREAK AWAY BECAUSE THE WHOLE THING IS SO DRAMATIC AND EMOTIONAL FROM THE START. HOW DO YOU FACT CHECK A FEELING? BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY WAYS. AND THERE ARE NOW INCREASE LEG RELEVANT CLUES FROM TRUMPāS ROCKY BUSINESS PAST. AND THAT BRINGS US TO OUR SPECIAL REPORT RIGHT NOW. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TRUMP CON FALLS APART? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FACTS AND FAILURE BECOME SO UNAVOIDABLE THAT EVEN LONGTIME TRUMP FANS JUMP SHIP? ITāS HAPPENED BEFORE. WHAT IāM ABOUT TO SHOW YOU OFFERS POTENTIAL CLUES FOR THESE FINAL TWO WEEKS AHEAD. AND CLUES TO WHETHER OR NOT THE BOTTOM DROPS OUT OF TRUMPāS NARROW BUT RESILIENT BASE. IāM TALKING ABOUT THIS. >> AT TRUMP UNIVERSITY WE TEACH SUCCESS. THATāS WHAT ITāS ALL ABOUT, SUCCESS. ITāS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU. IF YOUāRE GOING TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING, YOU HAVE TO TAKE ACTION. AND ACTION IS WHAT TRUMP UNIVERSITY IS ALL ABOUT. ABOVE ALL, ITāS ABOUT HOW TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL. >> THAT WAS 16 YEARS AGO WHEN TRUMP WAS SO DESPERATE FOR CATCH HE WENT BEYOND LICENSING HIS BRAND NAME TO COMPANIES FOR HOTELS OR MERCHANDISE WHICH IS HOW HEāS MONETIZED HIS NAME TO ACTUALLY DO WHAT YOU SAW THERE. HE WAS CLAIMING TO START HIS OWN CLASSES. NOW WE ALL KNOW IT WAS A PURE CON. THIS MAY SOUND HARSH, BUT WHAT IāM ABOUT TO SAY WAS PROVEN BY EVIDENCE AND SETTLED IN COURT. ONE, TRUMP UNIVERSITY WAS A CON JOB TO DEFRAUD TRUMPāS OWN MOST LOYAL FANS. IT HAD NEITHER TRUMP NOR A UNIVERSITY. THE BUSINESS WASNāT A CREDITED UNIVERSITY. IN FACT, HE WAS BUSTED LATER BY NEW YORK AUTHORITIES FOR HAVING NO CHARTER. IT HAD NO TRUMP BECAUSE HE DITCHED OUT ON TEACHING THOSE PROMISED CLASSES. ARRIVED ONLY TO FIND CARDBOARD CUTOUTS OF TRUMP. THEY SAID THEY WERE GIVEN INFOMERCIALS AND NOT CLASSES AND TOLD TO GO HOME AND LOOK AT REAL ESTATE WEBSITES TO APPLY THEIR CRAFT. NOW, TWO, TRUMP U WAS A BUSINESS THAT GAVE OUT BUSINESS ADVICE THAT WENT OUT OF BUSINESS. EMBARRASSING. THE JOKE HERE WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS. >> HEāS SO INSANE, HE STARTED TRUMP UNIVERSITY, BUT ITāS NOT EVEN A UNIVERSITY, ITāS JUST A WEBSITE. HOW WOULD YOU RECRUIT STUDENTS FOR THAT? >> EXCELLENT HAIR, SON. YOUāRE ON YOUR WAY. WOULD YOU CARE TO SEE A BROCHURE FROM TRUMP UNIVERSITY? ITāS THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY. >> THIS IS ALL FAMILIAR TO SO MANY TRUMP ENDEAVORS. REMEMBER HERE, THE VICTIMS ARE NOT TRUMP CRITICS. CRITICS WONāT WORK WITH HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. NO, A CON MAN IS DANGEROUS TO BE AROUND BECAUSE HE CONS THE PEOPLE WHO TRUST HIM. FOR TRUMP THAT WAS THE CONTRACTORS STILL WORKING TO WORK WITH HIM. FANS WHO STILL THINK HE CARES ABOUT THEM. NOW, THOUSANDS OF THOSE FANS PAID FOR THOSE CLASSES BACK THEN. SOME PAID UP TO TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. AND TO BE CLEAR, SOME WERE STILL STANDING BY TRUMP EVEN WHEN HE SNUBBED THE CLASSES AND BROKE HIS WORD. A DYNAMIC WHERE THE PERSON DEFRAUDED CAN STILL PRAISE THEIR OWN VICTIMIZERS UNTIL THE MOMENT THEY REALIZE THEYāVE BEEN FLEECED. THAT IS A LINE FROM A RULING THAT TRUMP GOT IN THE CASE HE LATER LOST. IT CAME UP IN THE DEBATES IN 2016. >> THE PLAINTIFFS AGAINST YOU ARE LIKE THE MADOFF VICTIMS. >> OH, GIVE ME -- GIVE ME A BREAK. >> THIS IS WHAT THE COURT OF APPEALS SAID. >> THEY FOUND THAT VICTIMS OF CON ARTISTS OFTEN SING THE PRAISERS OF THEIR VICTIMIZERS UNTIL THEY REALIZED THEY HAVE BEEN FLEECED. >> HEāS TRYING TO DO TO THE AMERICAN VOTER WHAT HE DID TO THE PEOPLE THAT SIGNED UP FOR THIS COURSE. HEāS MAKING PROMISES HE HAS NO INTENTION OF KEEPING. HEāS TRYING TO CONPEOPLE INTO GIVING THEM THEIR VOTE, JUST LIKE HE CONNED THESE PEOPLE INTO GIVING HIM THEIR MONEY. >> CONNING VOTERS. THATāS A REPUBLICAN, MARCO RUBIO, MAKING THE LINK FROM TRUMP TRUMP U TO THE ELECTION AND HERE WE ARE IN THE HOME STRETCH OF THE ELECTION. THE ALLEGATION LATER PROVEN WAS THAT TRUMP WAS CONNING SOME OF THOSE FANS. SOME OF THEM LOOKED AT THE EVIDENCE AND CAME TO THE HARD CONCLUSION THAT TRUMP SCANNED THEM. HERE IS BOB GILA. >> DONALD, YOU HAVE ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD. WHY DID YOU PICK ON A LITTLE GUY LIKE ME? >> THAT WAS BOB SPEAKING OUT AFTER AN INTERVIEW WITH OUR OWN LAWRENCE OāDONNELL. HE WENT FROM PAYING FOR THOSE CLASSES AND THINKING THEY WERE FINE TO CHANGING HIS MIND, TO REALIZING HE WAS CONNED, HOWEVER PAINFUL THAT MIGHT BE AS A PROCESS, HOWEVER HARD IT IS TO ADMIT. TRUMP THEN WENT OFF -- AFTER GILA BY NAME, CITING HIS INITIAL SUPPORT FOR THE PROGRAM. >> BOB GILA. HEREāS HIS REPORT CARD ON THE SCHOOL. AND HE TALKS ABOUT EXCELLENT. WHAT GRADE, QUALITY OF PRESENTATION, QUALITY ON EVERYTHING, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT. WHY WOULD ANYBODY SETTLE A CASE WHEN WE HAVE REPORTS LIKE THIS? >> WHY INDEED? WHY WOULD ANYBODY SETTLE THAT CASE? TRUMP WAS REFERRING TO HOW HIS FORMER FANS HAD SUED HIM OVER THE CON AND TRUMP WAS WRONG. THEY WON THEIR MONEY BACK. NOW, DURING THE CAMPAIGN, TRUMP LIED AND CLAIMED HE WOULDNāT PAY THEM OR SETTLE, BUT HE DID BOTH FOR A WHOPPING $25 MILLION. NOW, HOW DOES ALL THIS RELATE TO THE ELECTION RIGHT NOW? WELL, IT SUGGESTS HOW EVEN SOME DIE HARD TRUMP FANS, THE ONES WHO PUT THEIR OWN MONEY DOWN FOR HIM, COULD CHANGE THEIR MINDS. ITāS ALSO A REMINDER OF WHY TRUMP IS DIFFERENT THAN A LOT OF OTHER TRADITIONAL POLITICIANS BECAUSE HE ENGENDERS STRONGER EMOTIONAL REACTIONS AND FEELINGS. THAT CAN MAKE HIS FANS MORE ARDENT WHEN THEY LIKE HIM AND MORE SCORCHING WHEN THEY BREAK FROM HIM. THATāS SOMETHING WE JUST EXPLORED ON THIS PROGRAM, HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO HAD GIVEN TRUMP YEARS OF THEIR TIME AND LABOR ONLY TO JOIN FORCES NOW HOPING TO OUST TRUMP FROM THE WHITE HOUSE BY BACKING BIDEN. >> I WASNāT JUST PART OF THE CULT, I HELPED CREATE THE CULT. >> HOW MANY YEARS IN YOUR COUNT, IN YOUR MIND, DID IT TAKE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT TRUMP? MICHAEL? >> A DECADE. >> ANTHONY? >> SEVEN YEARS. >> BOTH THOSE INCREMENTS OF TIME ARE LONGER THAN THE FOUR YEARS OF A FIRST TERM. BUT THERE ARE TRUMP VOTERS OUT THERE WHO ARE ALSO CHANGING THEIR MINDS, JUST LIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER PEOPLE I JUST SHOWED YOU. WEāRE SEEING BIDEN NOW LEADING BY 43 POINTS AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE SWITCHING THEIR VOTE FROM A COUNT IN SIX KEY STATES. STATES WHERE TRUMP WON NARROWLY OVER HILLARY AND WHERE FORMER TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE NOW BACKING BIDEN. LIKE THESE OTHER EX-TRUMP FANS, THESE VOTERS MIGHT BE LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE. NOW, TRUMP HAS DONE A FEW THINGS HE POLITICALLY PROMISED. HE DID PUT CONSERVATIVES ON THE COURT. HE DID PULL OUT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE COORDINATE. HE DID RUN HARSH IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWNS, AS PROMISED. BUT JUST LIKE TRUMP U, MANY, MANY OF HIS BOLDEST AND BIGGEST, MOST FAMOUS PROMISES ARE JUST LIKE THE CARD BOARD CUTOUTS OF TRUMP IN THAT SAD HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOM. ITāS A FAKE. A FRAUD. A CON. MEXICO NEVER PAID FOR THE BORDER WALL. TRUMP DIDNāT DRAIN THE SWAMP. HE BROKE RECORDS FOR MOST ADVISERS CONVICTED EVER. TRUMP DIDNāT BRING BACK THE COAL MINING. THOSE JOBS ARE CRASHING, BELOW 45,000 IN THE CURRENT RECESSION. ITāS A FAR CRY FROM TRUMPāS CAMPAIGN PLEDGE. >> IF I WIN, WEāRE GOING TO BRING THOSE MINERS BACK. >> WEāRE PUTTING THE MINERS BACK TO WORK. >> WE WILL PUT OUR COAL MINERS AND OUR STEEL WORKERS BACK TO WORK. >> AND WEāRE GOING TO HAVE CLEAN COAL. ITāS CLEAN COLE. >> WEāRE GOING TO HAVE COAL. SO HANG IN BECAUSE WEāRE GOING TO PUT YOU BACK TO WORK. >> ITāS GOING TO BE A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE. >> YES, HANG IN THERE. WELL, ITāS BEEN FOUR YEARS. TRUMP HASNāT EVEN WORKED ON COAL MUCH PUBLICLY. LET ALONE FIXED THE SUBSTANTIVE DECLINE, PRODUCTION ON TRACK TO FALL 30%. NOW, HAVE ANY MINERS FOUND THEMSELVES FEELING LIKE TRUMP U CUSTOMERS? SOME SAY TRUMPāS ENTIRE FRAME HAS BEEN PROVEN FALSE BECAUSE THE FUNDAMENTALS WONāT BRING COAL BACK TO THE OLD DAYS. >> COAL MINING ISNāT COMING BACK AND ITāS TIME TO GET REAL ABOUT IT. YOU MIGHT THINK OF APPALACHIA AS A VERY CONSERVATIVE PLACE. THE MAJORITY OF THE COAL-PRODUCING COUNTIES VOTED FOR AL GORE. OUR FAMILIES USED TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS, FOR LABOR RIGHTS. ECONOMIC DESPERATION HAS DRIVEN US TO VOTE OTHERWISE. >> THEN THEREāS HEALTH CARE. THATāS AN EVEN LARGER PRIORITY DURING THIS PANDEMIC WHERE TRUMPāS 2020 LINE HAS BASICALLY BEEN RECYCLING OLD CLAIMS FOR A SECRET REPLACEMENT PLAN FOR OBAMACARE. >> OBAMACARE -- >> ITāS GOT TO GO. >> ITāS GOT TO GO. >> REPEAL AND REPLACE WITH SOMETHING TERRIFIC. >> OBAMACAREāS NOT GOING TO BE HERE MUCH LONGER, FOLKS. YOU SEE WHATāS GOING ON. >> REPEALING AND REPLACING THE DISASTER KNOWN AS OBAMACARE. >> BUT YOU CAN SEE THE CON. TRUMPāS NOT BEEN WORKING ON REPLACE. HEāS DOING REPEAL WITHOUT REPLACE. TRYING TO GET IT REPEALED IN THE SUPREME COURT NEXT MONTH. NOW, TRUMP WAS JUST ON DEFENSE OVER THIS BROKEN PLEDGE LAST WEEK, PRESSED AT THE TOWN HALL AGAIN ABOUT RUNNING ON A SECRET PLAN THIS TIME AS 20 MILLION AMERICANS COULD LOSE THEIR HEALTH CARE IMMEDIATELY UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION. AND THEN THEREāS THE ISSUE THAT MAY FIT TRUMP U THE BEST, DONALD TRUMP AND TAXES. IN TERMS OF HYPOCRISY, TRUMP IS A TAX DEADBEAT. HEāS NOW BEEN EXPOSED BY "THE NEW YORK TIMES" FOR DODGING AND PAYING LESS TAXES THAN MOST AMERICANS. NOW, IN TERMS OF POLICY IMPACT, THATāS YOUR LIFE, TRUMP IS TAKING FROM THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASS AND GIVING IT TO THE RICH THROUGH HIS POLICIES. JUST LIKE TRUMP U DEFRAUDED FANS THAT MANY OF WHOM HAD FAR LESS MONEY THAN DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF. HE RAN ON POPULISM LAST TIME BUT PUSHED A TAX PLAN TO HELP THE RICH AND ADMITTED IT. TELLING MILLIONAIRES AT HIS PRIVATE MAR-A-LAGO CLUB THAT HIS PLAN MADE THEM A LOT RICHER. THE FACTS MATTER. YOU KNOW, THE MEDIAN AMERICAN MAKES ABOUT $33,000 A YEAR. IT COSTS $200,000 JUST TO JOIN MAR-A-LAGO. THOSE MILLIONAIRES ARE THE ONES THAT TRUMP IS USING HIS POWER TO HELP RIGHT NOW AS HE ADMITTED. AND IN CONTRAST TO TRUMP U, THESE TAXPAYERS CANāT GET THEIR MONEY BACK FROM THE LAST FOUR YEARS BY JUST SUING TRUMP. BUT THEY CAN LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE OF THE CON AS YOU MAKE A DECISION ABOUT THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. I WANT TO BE VERY, VERY SPECIFIC. THE POINT HERE IS NOT ABOUT WHETHER YOU LIKE TRUMP OR NOT. OR EVEN LIKE WHAT HE PROMISES AS SOME PEOPLE APPARENTLY DO. FOR TRUMP FANS, THE POINT IS DECIDING IF HIS PROMISES ARE EVEN TRUE. IS THIS REAL? OR IS HE JUST AN ACTOR? CONSIDER SOME WORDS OF WISDOM ABOUT DECODING CONS FROM SEAN CARTER REFERENCING "RAGING BULL." THEYāRE ACTORS LOOKING AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR BACKWARDS. CANāT EVEN FACE THEMSELVES. THEYāRE NOT RAPPERS. THEYāRE ALL WEIRDOS. De NIROS IN PRACTICE. SO DONāT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOUR EAR LOBE CAPTURES. ITāS MOSTLY BACKWARDS UNLESS IT HAPPENS TO BE AS ACCURATE OF ME. THEN ACTUALLY BELIEVE HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE. NONE OF WHAT YOU HERE, EVEN IF ITāS SPAT BY ME. POETRY TO KEEP IN MIND THIS ELECTION. DONāT BELIEVE ALL OF ANYTHING. BE SKEPTICAL OF THE ACTORS, THE WEIRDOS AND THE CON MEN AND MAKE SURE ITāS TIME TO MAKE UP YOUR
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Everyone should be made to watch that. This is exactly the point I make to my Trump supporting friends and family - has he done ANYTHING that actually helps you. And the reality if youāre not making 7 figures annually, that answer is almost definitely ānoā.
What about the Trump Steak debacle? š„©š„©š„©
You canāt shine a turd
Ari Melber's show is excellent. My fav news hour of the day