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DONALD TRUMP’S GHOSTWRITER TELLS ALL
Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartzs sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the days 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 Art of the Deal.
Schwartz had ghostwritten Trumps 1987 breakthrough memoir, earning a joint byline on the cover, half of the books five-hundred-thousand-dollar advance, and half of the royalties. The book was a phenomenal success, spending forty-eight weeks on the Times best-seller list, thirteen of them at No. 1. More than a million copies have been bought, generating several million dollars in royalties. The book expanded Trumps renown far beyond New York City, making him an emblem of the successful tycoon. Edward Kosner, the former editor and publisher of New York, where Schwartz worked as a writer at the time, says, Tony created Trump. Hes Dr. Frankenstein.
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 Art of the Deal.
Schwartz had ghostwritten Trumps 1987 breakthrough memoir, earning a joint byline on the cover, half of the books five-hundred-thousand-dollar advance, and half of the royalties. The book was a phenomenal success, spending forty-eight weeks on the Times best-seller list, thirteen of them at No. 1. More than a million copies have been bought, generating several million dollars in royalties. The book expanded Trumps renown far beyond New York City, making him an emblem of the successful tycoon. Edward Kosner, the former editor and publisher of New York, where Schwartz worked as a writer at the time, says, Tony created Trump. Hes Dr. Frankenstein.
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Eavesdropping solved the interview problem, but it presented a new one. After hearing Trumps discussions about business on the phone, Schwartz asked him brief follow-up questions. He then tried to amplify the material he got from Trump by calling others involved in the deals. But their accounts often directly conflicted with Trumps. Lying is second nature to him, Schwartz said. More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true. Often, Schwartz said, the lies that Trump told him were about moneyhow much he had paid for something, or what a building he owned was worth, or how much one of his casinos was earning when it was actually on its way to bankruptcy. Trump bragged that he paid only eight million dollars for Mar-a-Lago, but omitted that he bought a nearby strip of beach for a record sum. After gossip columns reported, erroneously, that Prince Charles was considering buying several apartments in Trump Tower, Trump implied that he had no idea where the rumor had started. (It certainly didnt hurt us, he says, in The Art of the Deal.) Wayne Barrett, a reporter for the Village Voice, later revealed that Trump himself had planted the story with journalists. Schwartz also suspected that Trump engaged in such media tricks, and asked him about a story making the roundsthat Trump often called up news outlets using a pseudonym. Trump didnt deny it. As Schwartz recalls, he smirked and said, You like that, do you?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
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DONALD TRUMP’S GHOSTWRITER TELLS ALL (Original Post)
icymist
Jul 2016
OP
So, surely one could surmise that his exaggerations, omissions and half-truths could be illegal?
Earth_First
Jul 2016
#2
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)1. all I can say is I hope Hillary's team reads this
and contacts Schwartz. Hillary could seriously benefit and could really make Trump explode in a debate if she just plays her cards right and plays Trump.
A very interesting read and it gives a roadmap to Hillary.
Schwartz had ghostwritten Trumps 1987 breakthrough memoir, earning a joint byline on the cover, half of the books five-hundred-thousand-dollar advance, and half of the royalties. The book was a phenomenal success, spending forty-eight weeks on the Times best-seller list, thirteen of them at No. 1. More than a million copies have been bought, generating several million dollars in royalties. The book expanded Trumps renown far beyond New York City, making him an emblem of the successful tycoon. Edward Kosner, the former editor and publisher of New York, where Schwartz worked as a writer at the time, says, Tony created Trump. Hes Dr. Frankenstein.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)2. So, surely one could surmise that his exaggerations, omissions and half-truths could be illegal?
I'm someone is willing and able to look into these and weigh them against a legal perspective in the coming weeks...