Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is drawing attention to prominent Republicans’ criticisms of Trump University, Donald Trump’s controversial for-profit education company.
{mosads}Clinton and her top aides have in recent days retweeted tweets by 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who dropped their own failed bids earlier this year, slamming Trump University as deceptive.
The move comes one day after a federal court released hundreds of documents detailing Trump University’s strategy in a case alleging fraud.
Clinton’s official account retweeted a March tweet by Romney reading: “Here’s what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.”
She followed up by
writing, “Trump’s for-profit university deceived & exploited students to take their money. And he has the gall to call the media ‘sleazy.'”
Clinton’s national press secretary, Brian Fallon, shared
a tweet from Rubio arguing that Trump, the presumptive 2016 standard-bearer, made millions while “Trump University duped everyday Americans.” Fallon pointed an arrow to the tweet, with a note reading, “What he said.”
Fallon similarly shared a tweet from Cruz that asked supporters to get their own Trump University
“Certificate of Deception.”
“Ted Cruz agrees Trump University is a scam that sought to fleece hardworking Americans for the benefit of Trump,” Fallon added.
Clinton’s camp has jumped on
Tuesday afternoon’s release of Trump University documents in an effort to cast the for-profit educational program as a scam.
Trump faces a handful of lawsuits alleging that the program defrauded students, some who paid tuition as high as $35,000.
