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Jack Davis March 4, 2016
During Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump was put on the spot about Trump University, which is the subject of a class action lawsuit.
“We have a 98 percent approval rating, we have an A from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and people like it,” Trump said at the GOP primary debate Thursday.
Rival Marco Rubio said Trump’s claim was “false. That’s a D minus. Go on my website.”
Fox News host Megyn Kelly intervened in the discussion and sided with Rubio.
“With respect, we went back and looked at this,” Kelly said. “The rating from the Better Business Bureau was a D minus. That’s the last publicly available rating in 2010, and it was a result of the number of complaints they had received.”
“The only reason it was a D was because we didn’t care, we didn’t give them the information,” he said.
Kelly said there was no proof of Trump’s claim that the BBB gave the project an A.
“I can give it to you,” he said. “I will give it to you. I will give it to you tomorrow. … It was elevated to an A.”
Trump urged patience on the issue.
“Let’s see what happens in court. This is a civil case, very easy to have settled, could settle it now, very easy to have settled. … Let’s see what happens at the end of a couple years when this case is over,” Trump said.
“It’s been going for five years,” Kelly shot back.
“Yeah, it’s been going for a long time,” Trump responded.
Trump did not let the issue rest there. During a commercial break, Trump handed debate moderator Bret Baier a fax he received at the Detroit venue where the debate was held. Apparently, the fax contained updated BBB information, Trump posted a copy of the fax on Facebook, showing an ‘A’ grade from the BBB.
Trump handed a fax to the @FoxNews anchors during the #GOPDebate just a bit ago pic.twitter.com/EvVbvFZAgK
— Independent Journal (@INJO) March 4, 2016
The updated information was not made public during the show. Trump handed it to the Fox hosts just before the candidates’ closing statements.
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