If he claimed something happened to him that was known to be widely happening to people like him at the time, something that was the norm in business and was of

If he claimed something happened to him that was known to be widely happening to people like him at the time, something that was the norm in business and was often recorded the way it was recorded in his case to give the people doing it deniability, then yes, I’d believe it. Of course it’s difficult to give a general answer, and it’d depend on the details of the case. Perhaps you have a specific example of where Trump was at the tail-end of systematic discrimination in the beginning of his career?