Susannah Nesmith for Bloomberg
has the details:
Eric Trump took a page from his father’s playbook Tuesday, telling a
judge the billionaire’s renovations to a foundering Florida golf club he
bought made it even better.
“We took something that had really
gone bad and we made it great again,” Eric Trump, the executive vice
president of the golf club, told a judge in West Palm Beach, echoing
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan.
The Trump
Organization saved Trump National Golf Club Jupiter because it was
insolvent, Eric Trump testified. Most members love the renovated golf
club now, he said. The suit was filed by former golfers at the club who
say they were ripped off when Trump didn’t refund their deposits and
barred them from the facilities.
After
having insisted for months that people who resigned their memberships
at the club didn’t lose access, Eric Trump admitted he was wrong on that
point and that some had been barred.
“I’m the first person to have enough hubris to say when you’re wrong, you’re wrong,” he said.
The
former members sued the golf club in Jupiter to recover almost $5
million in deposits that they say should have been refunded when the
elder Trump changed the membership rules after buying the venture from
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. in 2012.
No jury in this one... it will be up to Judge Marra:
Both sides
in the dispute agreed to waive a jury trial, so U.S. District Judge
Kenneth Marra will decide whether Trump must pay the club’s former
members back.
Marra said at the conclusion of the two-day trial on Tuesday that he’d rule later.
Make English great again and stop using the word hubris (which is a bad thing) as a substitute for Humble.
ReplyDeleteDefinition of "hubris" is excessive pride or arrogance, not humility. Eric may have excessive pride/arrogance but don't think that's what he intended to convey to the judge.
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