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"I'm a mandible-clicking, antennae-waving INSECT..!"
Posted on 05/24/2019 9:29:44 AM PDT by Eddie01
President Trump's former ghostwriter says writing "The Art of the Deal" is the biggest regret of his life and wishes the 1987 bestseller "weren't even in print."
"I knew this was a bad guy when I did the book," Tony Schwartz told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett for this week's episode of "The Takeout" podcast. The pair sat down for lunch at New York's ViceVersa restaurant.
"Trump is not only willing to lie, but he doesn't get bothered by it, doesn't feel guilty about it, isn't preoccupied by it," Schwartz said. "There's an emptiness inside Trump. There's an absence of a soul. There's an absence of a heart."
Garrett covered more than 75 Trump campaign rallies in 2016, and noted that rally-goers brought "The Art of the Deal" with them to the events. "They held it almost as a sacred text," said Garrett.
The book catapulted Mr. Trump to new heights of fame upon its release, fueled in part by its review in the New York Times. Chris Lehmann-Haupt wrote "Jay Gatsby lives," and that "Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again."
Mr. Trump offered Schwartz $250,000 up front to write "The Art of the Deal," as well as half the book's royalties, which he is still getting today. Schwartz calls it "blood money" and has donated checks from the last 2.5 years to charity.
So why did he write it? "I took it on for money," Schwartz said. "The idea of selling out. I mean, the term was invented for what I did."
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But...he kept the money.
“The idea of selling out. I mean, the term was invented for what I did.”
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What he’s doing now.
How much is he getting.
And from whom?
President Trump is the most honest man to have been in the White House since Reagan.
Certainly the first one since then to really love the country.
Jerk-alert!
He said the very same thing during the 2016 campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/trump-book-tony-schwartz.html
I guess the MSM is running out of anti-Trump dirt, so they have to recycle it.
Another Trump hater. Big deal.
“There’s an emptiness inside [of Democrats.] There’s an absence of a soul. There’s an absence of a heart.”
Fixed! MAGA! :)
"I'm a mandible-clicking, antennae-waving INSECT..!"
Another wolf out there using a publicity stunt to troll for his services—prostitute services.
I guess this is enough for him to be allowed back in the bathhouse.
The next thing they will try to run with is this: I heard on the radio this morning that apparently Howard Stern has “inside information” that DJT ran for president only as a publicity stunt.
As if we haven’t heard that one before.
Yet, he still cashes the checks...
Beat me to it.
This is recycled. The media is desperate.
That was my sense too.
Two years of looking through the steamed up glass from the outside was just too much.
Here we go..recycled crap!! The stupid evil rats by their continual witch hunt are only garnishing sympathy for President Trump....it’s like the bully gluing the poor skinny guy against the school yard fence and constantly punching him in the face!! Compassionate fair people ALWAYS SIDE WITH THE VICTIM!!!
I’ll bet the forkin’ leech had no hesitation cashing the check, did he...
Pretty good publicity stunt.
The whole country has benefitted.
$250,000 Plus HALF the royalties! It made him a rich man.
Libs never put their own money where their mouths are.
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