A PERSON FORMERLY CLOSE TO DONALD J. TRUMP SAYS: “DON’T SAY I DIDN’T WARN YOU!”

…This man is giving us the truth about Donald J. Trump

 

Someone who knows says, “ The nominee is a “sociopath” who could instigate World War III if elected.

 

 

We now have someone that has gotten to know Donald Trump better than most.  After realizing that Donald Trump would actually become the Republican nominee for president, that same person said to himself, “I must tell the people in America what Donald Trump is really like.”

 

In that way, the ghost writer of Donald Trump’s most famous and successful book on business success, the “Art of the Deal”, Tony Schwartz, has stated the following in his recent up-coming article in The New Yorker Magazine, “If Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes, there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization as we know it.” 

 

 

Schwartz, who spent a significant amount of time with Trump while working on his bestseller, he described the reality star-turned Republican nominee as a “sociopath” who could instigate World War III if elected.

 

In ghostwriting the book for Trump, Schwartz said, “I put lipstick on a pig.” 

 

 

Mr. Schwartz is one of the few people that can talk out loud like this, because the book was written so long ago, he was not required to sign a non-disclosure, like everyone that deals with Trump now has has to sign.

 

Tony Schwartz is a true professional, as he was a former New York Times reporter and a Newsweek associate editor. In the New Yorker interview, Schwartz admitted that, “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I had contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.”

 

Basically, Schwartz stated that for years he has just said to himself that it was none of his business and this guy could just go and do whatever he wants.  After the ghostwriting of the book, they each just went about their own business.

 

But when he realized that this flagrant narcissist with the attention span of a gnat, (unless the subject matter was about himself), the nation and the world needed to find out the truth about this man.

 

He has admitted that it was so difficult to get Trump to stay on any subject, except how great he was, that at one time Schwartz had called his own editor and told him he was quitting in writing the book.  His editor suggested that perhaps if he could just listen in on the deals that Trump made, which were mostly done over the phone, he could then perhaps figure out how to put the book together, and that’s what they finally did.

 

Per Mr. Schwartz, “It’s impossible to keep him focused on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes.”  Schwartz was also quoted saying that, “This fundamental aspect of Trump’s character is not fully understood by the public at large.  If he [Trump] had to be briefed on a crisis in the White House Situation Room, it’s impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time.”

 

Back in 1985, Schwartz had written an unflattering article that depicted Trump as an abusive slum type lord that attempted to evict rent-controlled and rent-stabilized tenants from his properties. Schwartz said that Trump thought the article was great because it put him on the front page, “He didn’t fit any model of human being I’d ever met.”  He continued that, “Trump was obsessed with publicity, and he didn’t care what you wrote,” which goes along with Trump’s idea that, “All publicity is good publicity!”

 

Schwartz says, “Trump only takes two positions. Either you’re a scummy loser, liar, or you’re the greatest.  As his ghostwriter, I became the greatest. He just wanted to be seen as a tough guy, and he loved being on the cover of the book.”

 

Donald J. Trump has regularly boasted about “The Art of the Deal,” he calls it his best-selling autobiography.  He even says it is second only to the Bible.  In fact he calls it the “business bible” that demonstrates the sharp negotiating prowess he would bring to the American presidency. The book, released first back in 1987, details his rise to the top of New York’s real estate world and it helped spawn his career as a reality television star and cemented his image as a winner with a golden touch.

 

But Tony Schwartz, the book’s actual writer, spent 18 months in the 1980s interviewing and shadowing Mr. Trump, and he says that the book is really a work of fiction.

 

In the interview with The New Yorker magazine for its up-coming magazine issue, Mr. Schwartz explained publicly for the first time, what he learned from living in Mr. Trump’s world.

 

Here are some of the highlights:

 

Mr. Schwartz, said he worked on the book back then because he needed the money.  He told the New Yorker writer, Jane Mayer, that he painted Mr. Trump in the most positive light that he could, thinking that a sympathetic character would be better for the book’s sales than a story about a cruel tycoon.  If he said if he could do it over again, however, Mr. Schwartz said the book would be titled “The Sociopath.”

 

“He’s a living black hole!” Mr. Schwartz said he used to tell his wife after those long days with Mr. Trump. He described Mr. Trump as a painful interview subject who could not handle questions that required any depth to answer, and a person who had little recollection of his own youth.  When pressed, Mr. Schwartz said, Mr. Trump would grow fidgety, angry and would sometimes just quit, despite the fact that they were supposed to be working together on the book. He had absolutely no attention span, Mr. Schwartz said.

 

People often ask Mr. Trump why he is really running for president, and he has always responded by saying that he wants to “Make America Great Again”.

 

Mr. Schwartz has a different theory.  He explains the bid as part of a continuum of Mr. Trump’s need for attention. He recalled that as a young man, Mr. Trump was happy to receive publicity of any kind.  He even lured the New York tabloids to chronicle his life. His turn as the host of “The Apprentice,” the NBC reality show, solidified him as a media star, and running for president was just the next logical step, Mr. Schwartz said.

 

“If he could run for emperor of the world, he would,” Mr. Schwartz has stated.

 

Mr. Trump has driven many fact checkers to near madness in the last year, and Mr. Schwartz was not surprised. During the time he spent with Mr. Trump, he said, “The businessman would regularly exaggerate or outright lie to get the upper hand.”

 

“Lying is second nature to him,” Mr. Schwartz told The New Yorker. “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.”

 

It was Mr. Schwartz who coined the phrase “truthful hyperbole,” referring to Mr. Trump’s notion of harmless lies, in “The Art of the Deal.” He said that Mr. Trump loved the phrase.

 

Many celebrities have ghost writers who do the bulk of the work on their books, but Mr. Schwartz said he was struck by how Mr. Trump took all of the writing credit but did practically none of the work.

 

After reviewing the manuscript on which Mr. Schwartz had spent more than a year, Mr. Trump had returned it with a few scribbles of a red marker.  He had removed the names of some people he decided he did not want to criticize publicly.

 

Although Mr. Trump claims to be the real author of the bestselling business book of all time, Howard Kaminsky, the former head of Random House, which published “The Art of the Deal,” disagrees.

 

 

“Trump didn’t write a postcard for us!” he told The New Yorker.

 

Mr. Trump of course, has pushed back against the accusation that he had little role in the production of the book.  He told The New Yorker, “I wrote the book. It was my book.”

 

As for Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Trump did call him and express disappointment at how disloyal Schwartz had been. “Have a nice life,” Mr. Trump said, before hanging up.

 

But of course, Tony Schwartz’ lawyers have received a letter from Trump’s lawyers demanding a return of all the royalties that Schwartz has received from the book since it was published in 1987.

 

Needless to say, this is just a bunch of noise being made by Donald Trump, as there is no legal basis for this kind of recourse.

 

As Mr. Schwartz has said, this is just exactly what Trump is trying to do to all those people he took to the cleaners with the Trump University.  Trump will try to drag out that law suit as he always does.  We need to remember that Donald J. Trump has been involved with over 3500 law suits going back to the 1980’s.

 

But with this legal case, Trump has no basis for going after Mr. Schwartz, and Tony Schwartz can at least say to the American public, “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

 

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