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Tuesday, July 19th, 2016

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

Author:     Jane Mayer
Source:     The New Yorker
Publication Date:     July 25, 2016 Issue
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Stephan:   Almost everyone who knows Donald Trump, or does business with him, comes away feeling he is a sociopath, and having 3,500 lawsuits in your background would seem to support that conclusion. And yet there is a very good chance that he will be elected President of the United States. Here is one of the best assessments of Trump I have read, and I urge you to read it and pass it on to friends and family.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States, April 3, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Jim Young

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States, April 3, 2016.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young

Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he began to feel personally implicated.

Trump, facing a crowd that had gathered in the lobby of Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue, laid out his qualifications, saying, “We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ” If that was so, Schwartz thought, then he, not Trump, should be running. Schwartz dashed off a tweet: “Many thanks Donald Trump for suggesting I run for President, based on the fact that I wrote ‘The […]

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3 Comments

  1. Lori on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 3:40 am

    Very disturbing story. Unsettling.

  2. Steve Hovland on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 5:24 pm

    And Obama actually wrote “The Audacity of Hope” ?

    • Stephan Schwartz on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 1:19 am

      Actually he did. I know one of the editors at his publisher and they tell the story of how they expected the usual ghostwriter process and were surprised not only that he wrote every word, but that it was so good. Sorry you will have to let your biases go on this one.