Claim: Kamala Harris “criticized one of the nation's largest for-profit colleges for ripping off students.”
Verdict: Mostly wrong. Harris rejected a deal to save the university, disrupting the education of thousands of students.
Vice President Kamala Harris doesn't have a long list of accomplishments. One of the few she's willing to list is her involvement in shutting down Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit college that was targeted by Democrats.
she Claimed In an Instagram post:
As Attorney General of California, I took on one of the largest for-profit colleges in the country that was scamming students. Donald Trump ran a for-profit college that was scamming students.
And as Attorney General, I held Wall Street banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts of fraud.
As a prosecutor, I specialized in sexual abuse cases. Donald Trump was convicted of committing sexual abuse.
I pit my record against his every day.
Harris was referring to Trump's criminal and civil cases but did not mention the possibility that those convictions could be overturned — all of which Republicans see as flagrant miscarriages of justice perpetrated by partisan prosecutors and plaintiffs, biased judges and left-leaning juries.
The fact that Harris is upholding these rulings as some kind of standard of justice, as if Trump actually deserved to lose these cases, will unsettle those concerned about the decline of the rule of law in America under Democratic administrations.
On the issue of for-profit colleges, Harris also hides the truth.
Democrats at the state and federal levels have gone after for-profit colleges, accusing them of “ripping off” students. It's true that some students are promised degrees but never get them and struggle to pay off their debts. But so are nonprofits, which hate competition and call on Congress to provide them with a cohort of elite graduates to help protect their degree monopoly.
In fact, as California Attorney General, Harris could have saved Corinthian Colleges, but instead she destroyed it.
Breitbart News reported in 2015:
California Attorney General Kamala Harris rejection The decision to grant immunity from liability for past actions has prevented Corinthian Colleges from “advanced negotiations” with multiple parties to sell its remaining schools, which would have helped 16,000 current students continue their education, but the company closed 28 schools last week. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Monday, May 3rd.
Harris said she would not close for-profit schools. Best Interest That's because they're among 16,000 Corinthian students who could potentially have their student loans forgiven.
Breitbart News later reported that Harris' actions had resulted in “an abrupt interruption to the education of 16,000 students, Running around for help To pay off my student loans.”
So it is correct to say that she “took over” Corinth College, but it is incorrect to say that Corinth College deceived all of its students.
Additionally, Harris blocked a deal that could have saved Corinthian Colleges, and instead of helping students, she hurt them.
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