2016 Postmortem

DanTex

(20,709 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:07 PM Jul 2016

If you haven't read it, I recommend the New Yorker article about Trump's ghostwriter.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

I'm thinking, the Clinton campaign should contact Tony Schwartz and see if he wants to film a campaign commercial. First of all, just to let everyone know that The Art of the Deal was written almost entirely by someone other than Trump, and also as someone who knows him well and can attest to his dishonesty, ignorance, and unstable temperament.

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If you haven't read it, I recommend the New Yorker article about Trump's ghostwriter. (Original Post) DanTex Jul 2016 OP

I didn't think my opinion of Donald could get any lower. I was wrong. vegetarian x Jul 2016 #1

"If he could run for emperor of the world, he would.” VOX Jul 2016 #2

Excellent article PatSeg Jul 2016 #3

Important article, hope it makes a difference. Hortensis Jul 2016 #4

KNR Thankie! Lucinda Jul 2016 #5

vegetarian x

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1. I didn't think my opinion of Donald could get any lower. I was wrong.

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Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:49 PM

Jul 2016

VOX

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2. "If he could run for emperor of the world, he would.”

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Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:59 PM

Jul 2016

Fantastic read, thanks for posting..."The New Yorker" always delivers the goods. A couple of highlights that really struck me:

If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”
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Minutes after Trump got off the phone with me, Schwartz’s cell phone rang. “I hear you’re not voting for me,” Trump said. “I just talked to The New Yorker—which, by the way, is a failing magazine that no one reads—and I heard you were critical of me.”

“You’re running for President,” Schwartz said. “I disagree with a lot of what you’re saying.”

“That’s your right, but then you should have just remained silent. I just want to tell you that I think you’re very disloyal. Without me, you wouldn’t be where you are now. I had a lot of choice of who to have write the book, and I chose you, and I was very generous with you. I know that you gave a lot of speeches and lectures using ‘The Art of the Deal.’ I could have sued you, but I didn’t.”

“My business has nothing to do with ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ”

“That’s not what I’ve been told.”

“You’re running for President of the United States. The stakes here are high.”

“Yeah, they are,” he said. “Have a nice life.” Trump hung up.