> My computer directory on Trump is mostly just primary sources, that is, URLs at YouTube of complete speeches, rallies, interviews, transcripts prepared by C-SPAN, Time, NYT, etc., stuff pulled down from Trump's Web site, etc.

Those are primary sources if you are trying to confirm what Trump said, but they do nothing to indicate if what Trump said was correct.

> Trump University -- Calling it a university is a bit much. I heard his description of what it was -- that sounded okay.

I'm much less interested in what Trump says about it than what the documentation says about how it was actually run. I really do advise you to look into this issue closer. Here's something to get you started[1][2] (it has a fairly obvious anti-trump stance, but there are plenty of facts to garner from it).

First, he has no idea who his "handpicked" instructors were, even though that was supposedly a big selling point. Instructors had official scripts to go off in which they talked about dinners with Trump.

The brief, filed in federal district court in San Diego, further asserts that Donald Trump admitted under oath that he retains no real estate techniques beyond what has been published in his books. In other words, students who paid as much as $60,000 to Trump University over the course of a year could have gotten the exact same information through a $10 book purchased on Amazon.

Students in the program’s introductory three-day seminar were told to use their break times to double or even quadruple their credit card limits and were asked to fill out financial statements so they’d be prepared to finance lucrative real estate transactions. Instructors then used those higher credit limits and financial information to pressure the students into enrolling in Trump University’s $34,995 Gold Program.

Trump University sold “one year apprenticeship” programs for $1,495 that were in actuality a three-day workshop and a 1-800 number to a “client advisor.”

Even though students were told they would get to have their picture taken with Trump, usually (possibly every single time, I'm not sure there's a record of him ever showing up) that ended up being with a a cardboard cutout of Trump.

> There were some interviews with some people that claimed to like the courses, found them useful, and made money with them.

The only ones I've really heard of so far were people that were interviewed before the course ended, and expected to receive additional help from the course (contacts/placements, etc) ended. They were incentivized to not speak ill of the course they still hoped would help provide some return on the money they spent. I don't have a source for that though, so if you have something contradictory, it may be more accurate.

> we're about ready to come out of The Great Recession.

We've been out of that recession for years. The unemployment rate is very low[3]. It's a mistake to assume that coming out of a recession means that everyone will get an equivalent job and make the same amount of money as before. In this case, real household income is less in many cases, which is not good. That's not a factor of unemployment though (as the numbers show), but from lower paying jobs replacing previously higher paying jobs. Any policy to "create jobs" that doesn't address this isn't going to do much good, IMO.

> I wish we knew a lot more about just what and how Trump will do things, but I doubt we will learn much more before the election.

I find it troubling that you, and many other people, accept that. I don't think anyone should accepted as a valid candidate that purposefully avoids specifics in favor of wide, general, unverifiable statements. The United States is not a business. The Presidency is not a business-like position. There is very little overlap between a businessman and a politician, and the skills needed, IMO. For one, the President doesn't have that much power. Their biggest effects are to have a public voice, veto bills (if not overturned!), and to try to spur the legislative branches into motion. Want to build a wall? You should be looking towards your Congressmen and Senators, since it's not going to happen without them.

1: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/04/donald-trumps-sworn-test...

2: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432010/trump-university...

3: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000