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CajunBlazer

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9. Tell her she needs to read this entire article in the New Yorker
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 07:18 PM
Jul 2016
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

It contains the views of Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer who actually wrote "The Art of the Deal" which made Trump into the mega star he is today. To write the book Schwartz spent 18 months tagging along with Trump as he went through is business day, attending every meeting, listening in on every phone call. He even often visited with him in his Penthouse and traveled with him to his Florida retreat. Tony Schwartz makes a case that he know the real Donald Trump better than anyone outside of his immediate family.

The things he says about Trump are enough to make any rational Trump supporter seriously doubt whether he/she should vote for The Donald in November. Here is an excerpt from the opening paragraphs:

“I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”

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.”


The rest of the long article explains in detail why Schwartz holds these opinions about Trump. Every person in the country should read this article - especially Trump's supporters. We should spread it as widely as possible.

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