Trump testimony revisits USFL strategy

Reporting cited here

1. documented

   Trump advocated moving the USFL to a fall schedule as part of a strategy to compete with or force accommodation from the NFL.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL fall-schedule strategy: Promised · Promised

2. documented

   League owners approved the move and pursued antitrust litigation.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL fall-schedule strategy: The record · The record

3. documented

   Trump owned the New Jersey Generals and advocated the fall strategy.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL fall-schedule strategy: The record · The record

4. documented

   USFL proponents presented the antitrust case as a route to significant relief from the NFL.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL antitrust remedy: Promised · Promised

5. documented

   The USFL suspended play before staging the planned fall season.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL fall-schedule strategy: Affected group · Affected group

6. documented

   The move to fall never produced the operating league its proponents envisioned. Multiple owners and market conditions also shaped that result.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL fall-schedule strategy: Audit finding · Cited analysis

7. documented

   Trump was a leading USFL owner and public advocate of the litigation strategy.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL antitrust remedy: The record · The record

8. documented

   The verdict won legal vindication on a narrow theory and nothing else: no financial remedy, no business rescue of the kind the league strategy sought.

   Schedule move, antitrust strategy, and league outcome

   USFL antitrust remedy: Audit finding · Cited analysis