The GOP Owns Trump University's Sleaze: Republicans Have Been Tolerant of Con Artists for Decades @alternet:
"Just as with his belligerent authoritarianism, embrace of conspiracy theories and racism, Trump’s grifter tendencies cannot be understood as a departure from regular Republican politics. Instead, this is just another case of Trump taking something that already existed in conservative circles and turning the volume up dramatically. Republicans have long had a broad acceptance for con artists and frauds using conservative rhetoric and channels to defraud people out of their hard-earned money.
