if I remember correctly. I think your assessment is spot on
It’s supported by news stories reporting on court filings and events from that time.
Trump haters like to take old controversies and implicate him by association.
He’s really an honorable guy though he sometimes expresses his emotion negatively when he loses out, when people are not reasonable. He’s walked away from plenty of deals where people would not accept his terms even when his terms were more than reasonable. He can’t understand why people are so stubborn when the business proposition is in their favor. But he never plans revenge, at least to my knowledge he never has. I believe it is because of the ethics left to him by his father because of what I’ve read and heard about his father Fred..