Donald Trump is defending himself from attacks on Trump University, and released a video featuring satisfied students. Trump promotes positive Trump University success stories

Donald Trump is turning to testimonials from former customers of his for-profit Trump University on Wednesday, as the presumptive Republican nominee faces renewed political scrutiny and ongoing litigation in separate cases.

“The recent press attacks upon Trump University have not been an accurate representation of the professionally run school that provided a quality real estate education,” reads the description on a three-minute video titled “Former Students Speak out in Support of Trump University” posted to Trump’s campaign YouTube channel.


“While the press has taken selected portions of documents and testimony and spun them in order to further their agenda of attacking Mr. Trump’s business record, the true story is best told by the students who attended Trump University and used the information they learned to become successful real estate investors and entrepreneurs. The students on this video are representative of the many students who were overwhelmingly satisfied with Trump University. Rather than listen to the media spin, listen to the hard-working students who can attest first-hand to the truth about Trump University.”

The first person to speak on the video, Ken Moyer, is identified as an entrepreneur and founder of World Protection Group.

“So I was looking for courses that I could learn about the basics of business, such as branding, marketing, finance and in addition, I took some of the real estate courses," Moyer said. "I thought maybe the real estate way would be the way for me to go also, to look at investing in real estate. And I must tell you that the courses that I took were outstanding.”

Casey Hoban, who founded Trimino Protein Water, called returns on real estate deals “incalculable,” adding, “And I wouldn’t have been able to do those deals without learning Donald Trump’s business techniques and real estate strategies. And I learned them all from Trump University.”

“We made a goal to do a deal and get our money back, and within 60 days, we hit our goal, bought a property at auction, resold the property and made approximately the same money we made on Trump University back,” said Michelle Gunn, identified as an entrepreneur and a real estate investor.

Moyer called the courses that he took “outstanding” and said that he still has the courses on his iTunes and his cellphone "and listen[s] to them every once in a while.”

“I have to sit back and think to myself if they were given the same information, the same education, the same opportunity, how come they didn’t have the same results, and I think that’s because you have to take action upon yourself,” Gunn said. “You have to go out and make it happen and apply that. No different than any other education or information that you may obtain.”

Hoban then recalled instructors telling participants in one class that if they felt in “over their head” or “if you feel you’re not going to use these techniques, then leave your books on the shelf, check out of the class now and we’ll refund you.”

“They were trying to tell people, ’Don’t stay, don’t do this if you don’t think you’re going to use it.’ They gave people a chance to leave the class,” Hoban said. “They wanted serious people who were really going to study and really going to learn and really going to use, and I personally did.”

The video concludes with a photograph of a Trump rally and audio of Gunn declaring, “I think Donald Trump would make an excellent president for the United States of America.”