Richard Branson Describes ‘Bizarre’ Lunch Meeting He Once Had with Trump

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BRANSON: “The only time I’ve met him before was equally bizarre. He invited me to lunch or dinner at his house, and he had just been bankrupt, and I thought we would have an interesting conversation about a whole range of issues, and he just spent the whole lunch talking about five people he had rung up to try to get help from when he was bankrupt.”
KERMEN: “What do you mean when he was bankrupt? One of his companies?"
BRANSON: “One of his companies had just been bankrupt. And how these people had refused to help him and how his life’s mission was going to be to destroy these people. That literally was the gist of this conversation of our very first meeting, and I left just thinking — I said to him, 'Look, you are going to eat yourself up. You are going to destroy these people unnecessarily. They haven’t actually crossed you. They just said no.' But he was fixated on this mission of his.”