"Donald Trump Hired Me As An Attorney. Please Don’t Support Him For President." Huff Post:

[Laxman]

6. I Read This Article This Morning....

and it reminded me that Trump has burned a lot of bridges in the NJ legal community. He's like the neighborhood delinquent. Everybody tries to give him a chance but he keeps breaking into your house to steal your stuff to sell. He's burned so many bridges but there's still always somebody willing to say "maybe it will be different with me".

I actually got to meet Trump, sort of. When I was a young lawyer (actually still a law clerk) I was working for a firm that represented NJ's oldest and largest bank. The partner who's bags I was carrying took me along to a meeting between the bank big wigs and Trump and his entourage when he was looking for financing for his first casino. I sat on the sidelines and watched as the stodgy old bankers listened to Trump's pitch. He was a bit of a celebrity in the NY area by then and he was full of himself.

After his presentation that was incredibly self confident and self centered about how lucky the bank would be to do business with him, everybody smiled and shook hands and Trump and his people left. The bank president then went back to the conference room, closed the door and said "this bank will never do business with that man". A good thing too, because Trump's default on his loans and subsequent bankruptcy on that casino deal would have put that bank that had been in business for over 100 years into receivership.

Nobody knows what a snake Trump is better than the lawyers who have done business with him. Unless maybe it's these people: