How about a Horse instead? - Trump to lawyer insisting on fee

[packman]

Reputed attorney-stiffer Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, according to a new book by The New York Times’ David Enrich.

In a segment of “Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump and the Corruption of Justice” reported Monday by the Guardian, Trump owed $2 million to “a lawyer at a white-shoe firm” in the 1990s.

The lawyer showed up unannounced at Trump Tower to confront Trump.

?‘I’m not going to pay your bill. I’m going to give you something more valuable,’ Trump replied, according to the book, due out later this month. “What on earth is he talking about? the lawyer wondered. ‘I have a stallion,’ Trump continued. ‘It’s worth $5 million.’ Trump rummaged around in a filing cabinet and pulled out what he said was a deed to a horse. He handed it to the lawyer.”

“This isn’t the 1800s. You can’t pay me with a horse,” the stunned attorney replied, threatening to sue.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-lawyer-horse_n_6315d6e2e4b0faa556bf49b2

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. How anyone can take this guy seriously as a leader of any kind

Just continually blows my freaking mind.

How dumb do you have to be, seriously?

[3catwoman3]

2. If the horse had really been worth...

…$5 million, there is no way Trump would have parted with it, IMO.

[Bayard]

3. LMAO!

[Walleye]

4. So he is a horse thief on top of everything else

[Retrograde]

5. Does he also give chickens to his doctors?

As far as I know (and I am not a lawyer) equines and other farm animals are not legal tender in the US.

Makes me wonder, though, what was wrong with the horse that Donnie wanted to give it away? And who appraised it at $5million? Sounds like another scam to both stiff a supplier and over-inflate the value of something.

[IcyPeas]

6. Tony Soprano had a horse. Difference is he loved his horse Pie-O-My. TFG is incapable of love.