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The Trump University scandal just keeps gaining media steam as new details about the scam keep getting released. Now the blowback is expanding beyond the Donald Trump campaign itself and affecting other Republicans.
And it’s not just the ones who embarrass themselves by standing by Trump as he is exposed as a fraud and a racist. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, and the state’s current attorney general, Ken Paxton, are now under fire for taking measures to protect Trump from paying legal or political penalties for perpetuating this fake university grift. The whole incident shows yet another way that, far from being some kind of anomaly, Trump is simply the logical extension of the way the Republicans have been doing business for decades now.
Republicans want distance from Trump U, but their party's long acceptance of grifters makes the stigma stick.
Last week, John Owens, a former deputy director of the attorney general’s consumer protection division, came forward with allegations that his division was all ready to file a lawsuit against Trump and Trump University, asking for $5.4 million in damages, penalties and fees for defrauding Texas consumers who signed up for the scam courses. But while Owens says the case was strong, the attorney general’s office, then controlled by now-governor Abbott, decided to quash the case instead.
“The decision not to sue him was political,” Owens told the Dallas Morning News. “Had [Trump] not been involved in politics to the extent he was at the time, we would have gotten approval. Had he been just some other scam artist, we would have sued him.”
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