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This is an informative read:"They just saw him as this scumbag huckster," Pearlman told Newsweek. "He was this New York, fast-talking, kind of con-man."
In the course of Trump's NFL pursuit, he made a fair number of enemies at the USFL and helped shuttle the league to an early grave. He convinced other USFL owners to challenge the NFL directly in the fall, and then led the charge on an anti-trust lawsuit against the football giant that netted a massive...three dollars. The USFL was dead by '85.
His entire goal was to get him an NFL team. He didnt care how he got it. It wasnt like, Oh, I really hope I can lead you guys to a merger. He didnt give a shit about the other owners. Like, at all. Did not care. No interest, whatsoever. His goal was to get in the NFL. If it took a merger, so be it. If it took the entire USFL collapsing and he gets an [NFL] team, thats fine too.
http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-nfl-fight-dates-back-failed-usfl-experiment-80s-jeff-pearlman-670843
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)That talked about a lunch he had with dumpf in that dumpf talked on and on about how he wanted revenge against bankers who wouldn't lend him money because of his countless bankruptcy filings.
The gist was that dumpf wanted revenge on everybody that's ever "slighted" him.
Plain and simple, hurt his ego, pay the price.
Sick bastard.
The more I see of him in action the more certain I am that he has a personal hit list.
misanthrope
(7,421 posts)Especially from his "Obama obliteration" path. He can't forget seething while Obama dismantled him at the correspondent's dinner.
The one component Trump will never be able to erase was the cool Obama showed in that same moment despite the very serious machinations simultaneously occurring regarding Osama bin Laden. Trump will never be able to erase any of it, regardless of how it eats at him.