There is more to one of Trump's more famous eminent domain attempts than people may know about.
He’d met two people who seemed as stubborn as he: a feisty widow whose house stood in the way of his Atlantic City casino expansion, and her attorney.
Trump’s approach struck his adversaries as brazen. Even though the widow was suing him for damaging her house, Trump called her attorney, Glenn Zeitz, and, according to Zeitz, tried to hire him for a potentially more lucrative case.....
....Zeitz rejected the offer, which came as Trump was also pressing him to settle the dispute and persuade his client to sell her house. Zeitz said he couldn’t fight Trump in one case and represent him in another. It would have created “a tangled web of conflicts,” Zeitz said in a recent interview.
“It was like, ‘Wow!’ Just bizarre. The audacity,” recalled Julia Ingersoll, an associate in Zeitz’s office and one of five friends and former colleagues who learned of the call at the time and confirmed it in recent interviews. “It’s like, if we can’t beat you, we’ll buy you.”...
....and there is more....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-heat-of-legal-fight-lawyer-says-he-got-a-shocking-phone-call-from-donald-trump/2016/03/25/b8c8d900-e7c1-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html?postshare=3661459042576261&tid=ss_tw-bottom
