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For several years Teflon Don Trump encouraged people to take part in a pseudo-scientific vitamin scheme.
Through a multi-level marketing project called The Trump Network, the business mogul encouraged people to take an expensive urine test, which would then be used to personally “tailor” a pricey monthly concoction of vitamins.
Asked to defend the products, a doctor for The Trump Network wound up deriding the idea of “evidence-based” medicine.
The Trump Network ultimately failed, and its assets were sold off.
The project is just another example of Trump’s questionable business practices, from his Trump University (accused by many students of fraud) to his casinos (which went bankrupt so often) to his “tasteless and mealy” signature steaks.
There was no indication Trump himself ever took the vitamins he promoted.
One of the major products that the Trump Network sold was PrivaTest, a urine analysis formulated by Ideal Health, a multi-level marketing company focusing on “naturopathic” products. Naturopathy centers on the idea that the body can self-heal through the use of therapeutic substances like herbs and vitamins. Using this urine test, Ideal Health claimed to be able to “tailor” a vitamin regimen to do just that.
The Trump Network also got into children’s nutrition, selling a “Snazzle Snaxxs” kit for $248. The kit included sour cream and onion “Snazzle Twisters,” chocolate bars called “Snazzle Barzzs,” a peach mango drink called “Snazzle Paxxs,” and various other strangely named snacks.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/25/inside-donald-trump-s-vitamin-scam.html
