Posted on 10/10/2024 3:41:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One evening in February 1989, my Watergate reporting partner Carl Bernstein bumped into Donald Trump at a dinner party in New York.
“Why don’t you come on up?” Carl urged me on the phone from the party, hosted by Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish American socialite and record executive, in his Upper East Side townhouse. “Everybody’s having a good time,” he said. “Trump is here. It’s really interesting. I’ve been talking to him.”
Carl was fascinated with Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal.” Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to join him, in large part, as Carl often reminds me, because I needed the key to his apartment, where I was staying at the time.
“I’ll be there soon,” I told him.
It had been 17 years since Carl and I first collaborated on stories about the Watergate burglary on June 17, 1972.
Trump took a look at us standing together, and he came over. “Wouldn’t it be amazing if Woodward and Bernstein interviewed Donald Trump?” he said.
Carl and I looked at each other.
“Sure,” Carl said. “How about tomorrow?”
“Yeah,” Trump said. “Come to my office at Trump Tower.”
“This guy is interesting,” Carl assured me after Trump was gone.
“But not in politics,” I said.
I was intrigued by Trump, a hustler entrepreneur, and his unique, carefully nurtured persona, designed even then to manipulate others with precision and a touch of ruthlessness.
It’s a portrait of Trump at age 42, focused on his real estate deals, making money and his celebrity status. But he was hazy about his future.
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Exactly, and here they are rolling this decrepit tool out right on schedule just as expected, believe nothing from him, its all a CIA operation.
Woodward was used to bring down Nixon because Nixon had made it known that he knew some details about the JFK assassination.
“Ahmet died an unusal death.”
Didn’t he fall down at a show and hit his head?
I heard he hit his head on the sink in a men’s room at a club.
Unlike some, I didn’t hit a paywall. These excerpts, I think, are excellent. I read the quotes from Trump back then and I “see/hear” the same Trump we know today.
It’s cool how W and B were fawning and eating out of his hand back before he was a threat to their bureaucracy, but would try to eviscerate him now that he is their biggest nightmare.
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