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The New Yorker : Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All


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2017 Jan 23, 11:04am   2,574 views  9 comments

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

If you only read part of this long form article, read this, the ending summation:

Schwartz told me that he has decided to pledge all royalties from sales of “The Art of the Deal” in 2016 to pointedly chosen charities: the National Immigration Law Center, Human Rights Watch, the Center for the Victims of Torture, the National Immigration Forum, and the Tahirih Justice Center. He doesn’t feel that the gesture absolves him. “I’ll carry this until the end of my life,” he said. “There’s no righting it. But I like the idea that, the more copies that ‘The Art of the Deal’ sells, the more money I can donate to the people whose rights Trump seeks to abridge.”

Schwartz expected Trump to attack him for speaking out, and he was correct. Informed that Schwartz had made critical remarks about him, and wouldn’t be voting for him, Trump said, “He’s probably just doing it for the publicity.” He also said, “Wow. That’s great disloyalty, because I made Tony rich. He owes a lot to me. I helped him when he didn’t have two cents in his pocket. It’s great disloyalty. I guess he thinks it’s good for him—but he’ll find out it’s not good for him.”

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.

Schwartz can understand why Trump feels stung, but he felt that he had to speak up before it was too late. As for Trump’s anger toward him, he said, “I don’t take it personally, because the truth is he didn’t mean it personally. People are dispensable and disposable in Trump’s world.” If Trump is elected President, he warned, “the millions of people who voted for him and believe that he represents their interests will learn what anyone who deals closely with him already knows—that he couldn’t care less about them.”

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1   Ceffer   2017 Jan 23, 11:07am  

The New Yorker used to be great, but has devolved into a harshly political liberal rag. The editorial helm has deteriorated. RIP New Yorker.

2   Tenpoundbass   2017 Jan 23, 11:11am  

Liberals in charge they whine, not in charge they still whine.

At least the Republicans didn't sulk and whine when the Liberal media proclaimed that the Republicans were going to be exiled for decades.
They shut up and started towing the Liberal line, while others got to work redefining what being Conservative means in 2017. They didn't Riot, burn, loot, lob racial epitaphs at Obama. The Liberals are just twisting in the wind.

3   Rew   2017 Jan 23, 11:25am  

Ceffer says

The New Yorker used to be great, but has devolved into a harshly political liberal rag. The editorial helm has deteriorated. RIP New Yorker.

You sound just like Trump administration: "Failing publication. The worst." That's the line right?

Tenpoundbass says

They shut up and started towing the Liberal line, while others got to work redefining what being Conservative means in 2017.

You think that's what occurred? You think Trump is a "Conservative"? Bah.

4   Ceffer   2017 Jan 23, 11:37am  

Maybe just a symptom of dynastic corruption. The only ones who make it into the inner circles any more in New York and Hollywood are the sloppy, spoiled spawns.

The New York media machine has become increasingly untethered and solipsistic. They are spending down their credibility like whores on a coke binge. I feel like I am reading baby fat, Ivy League cream puff spin that got the gold star from an anointed professor.

5   Tenpoundbass   2017 Jan 23, 11:50am  

The Liberal view of a Conservative has grown to mean an Evangelical Slumlord Market mover.
That's because that is their donor base.

Family values are back baby! And so are the American tax payer's rights above the Ivy league class, and donors that are exempt from the regulations that class wields to oppress both family values and the middle economic class in this country.

The Liberal post Trump election argument, is destined to fall on deaf ears. Of anyone not either filthy rich by means that depends on the NWO of the last 30 years, the Education sector that helped build the classes and division and the spoiled government workers who realize 80K to 100K + jobs while possessing no more valuable skills than that of a coat closet clerk.

The rest of us that were left behind, ridiculed, chastised, race baited, and destroyed. Will mow you over and trample you underfoot if you get in our way with your expired Horseshit.

Now Good Day Sir!

6   marcus   2017 Jan 23, 12:58pm  

TPB doesn't believe in a meritocracy ?

Or at least not if it's the kind of merit that has anything to do with "book larnin." Your computer and your job wouldn't exist if it weren't for highly educated people that made most of our technology possible. Not to mention doctors, and countless other education intensive professions. Typical egocentric view, he thinks that just because he barely started his education until well into adulthood, that therefore those who excel in academia never have anything to offer the marketplace.

Tenpoundbass says

the Education sector that helped build the classes

Newsflash: school is a form of work too ! The beauty of our public education system is that everyone gets the opportunity - if your parents can at least afford an apartment in a good school district. That's not to suggest that there aren't a lot of improvements that could be made to the system. And we do have the cultural flaw, which is that too many Americans just do get it. That is the opportunity that school presents.

7   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Jan 23, 1:24pm  

Ceffer says

The New York media machine has become increasingly untethered and solipsistic. They are spending down their credibility like whores on a coke binge. I feel like I am reading baby fat, Ivy League cream puff spin that got the gold star from an anointed professor.

Yep. Once, just a few decades ago, some Butcher's son who fell in love with the idea of being a hero gumshoe reporter with "Press" in their Fedora on 50s television, decided to go to CUNY and become a reporter.

Now it's a club for Ivy League kids.

8   Shaman   2017 Jan 23, 1:40pm  

Their magazine is full of unreadable garbage by scions of privilege and their toadies. Truly great literature is meant to move one by the heart, not berate one into submission.

9   Rew   2017 Jan 23, 2:09pm  

Quigley says

Their magazine is full of unreadable garbage by scions of privilege and their toadies. Truly great literature is meant to move one by the heart, not berate one into submission.

So the bigger words gave you trouble then? ;)

Tenpoundbass says

Family values are back baby!

LOL. Trophy wives with major plastic work for all? Or is it the President that has had children from three different wives the example?

Tenpoundbass says

The rest of us that were left behind, ridiculed, chastised, race baited, and destroyed. Will mow you over and trample you underfoot if you get in our way with your expired Horseshit.

Now Good Day Sir!

"My crowd" was comfortably bigger on inauguration day. Your crowd doesn't want estimates published about its weak size.

It's Trump's game to lose now, and he just inherited some tough decisions to make. Who is he going to blame for failure when he is in power? I know it will never be himself, but it will be fun to watch the finger pointing. Warning : impotent leader at the helm, give a wide birth, or be caught in the twitter tantrum.

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