He was always a con man

[struggle4progress]

By Rick Telander
Jan 18, 2021, 5:33pm CST


... 1986 ... the USFL actually had a chance in the spring, with no other live football to compete against. Playing in the fall, going head-to-head against the NFL, had been considered insane from the start.

Guess who almost singlehandedly talked the USFL owners to go against sanity? Trump. He secretly wanted his Generals team to get absorbed into the NFL and screw all the rest ...

... in his arrogance, Trump unwittingly had followed a secret blueprint the NFL owners had developed, showing the way the USFL could be destroyed ...

... The USFL won the suit — and was awarded $1. Because of antitrust laws, the amount was trebled to $3 ...

A juror in the trial later would say of Trump on the stand: ‘‘The so-called business genius ruined it for them. He was not believable in anything he said’’ ...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/18/22237761/donald-trump-was-always-con-man-that-includes-time-usfl-generals-mccaskey-kelly-nfl-telander

[SheltieLover]

1. He has always been revolting to me

[dweller]

2. ETTD

can’t be any simpler than that ...

✌🏻

[misanthrope]

3. How well I remember

Since the only two sports I have much interest in are basketball and football, I was a USFL fan. They did alright for an upstart league, gathering plenty of NFL-quality talent.

I had never heard of Trump before but remember how particularly weaselly he came across on TV. His flim-flammery was transparent from the start. I was stupefied as he continued to garner attention in the coming decades, that anyone cared what he said or did.

That's always been the foundation of my amazement, that others couldn't see through him more easily.

[LeftInTX]

4. To be fair we had our problems here with USFL

We had team owned by a Texas tycoon, the checks to the players bounced and eventually he stopped paying them altogether. The players sued, but the owner filed for bankruptcy. The creep was eventually sent to prison for bribery and mail fraud