Originally posted on 01/15/2016:

Quote Originally Posted by d2bets View Post
When/what do you know him from?
I graduated from college in 66 & began hitting the best singles bars in NY
city around 68. If I wasn't at Maxwell's Plums or Gleasons Tavern on York
on Friday night they'd send out missing person's alarms. Trump started
making the scene shortly afterward & we became friends hitting on
the females that gravitated to Maxwell's & chewing the fat about the news
of the day. He always had tickets to Rangers games & we'd find women
companions & go to the Madison Square Garden always having good times.
We double dated & he's the only guy i ever let fix me up with a date as
for the most part he had good taste. I married a girl I met at maxwell's
in 1971 & left the scene.

Out of say 200 or so men who frequented Maxwell's on weekends there
may have been maybe 2 or 3 who didn't drink heavily I'm guessing but I
know Trump never imbibed. When we'd drive around town he would mention
who owned every building & he was even at that age always worried about
losing his hair. A friend of his from Philadelphia City-Line used to drive to NY
& meet at Maxwell's on some Friday's, once Trump mentioned jesse had a wig,
it looked so real and he was only in his 20's that I never noticed until Trump
pointed it out. As far a religion, few of my friends rarely discussed that with me
as I am more proud of my religion than I am a follower of it. Trump was one of the few
I knew who thought it was important enough to chat about Norman Vincent Peale
was some one he read & thought about highly

Shortly afterward maybe around 1975 or so Trump became a household
word & I must say I wasn't that surprised but I was a little jealous.
By that time I guess I could say I got my come uppance, obviously to all, to this
day Trump hasn't & I hope he never does.

So that's probably the reason I supported Trump from the eraly days of his candidacy.
A secondary but just as important reason is that I agree with him on the ,most important
issues & like Trump I m not a doctrinairea Republican