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suffragette

(12,232 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 01:29 PM Jul 2016

Melania lies about writing speech, Donald lied about writing "Art of the Deal"

Do we we see a pattern here?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
DONALD TRUMP’S GHOSTWRITER TELLS ALL
“The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/trump-book-tony-schwartz.html

Donald J. Trump has regularly boasted about “The Art of the Deal,” his best-selling autobiography, as a business bible that demonstrates the sharp negotiating prowess he would bring to the presidency. The book, released in 1987, details his rise to the top of New York’s real estate world; 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 ghostwriter, who spent 18 months in the 1980s interviewing and shadowing Mr. Trump, says that it is really a work of fiction.

In an interview with The New Yorker magazine for its July 25 issue, Mr. Schwartz explained publicly, and for the first time, what he learned from living in Mr. Trump’s world. Here are some highlights.

The Art of Regret
Mr. Schwartz, a former magazine writer who said he worked on the book because he needed the money, told the 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 could do it over again, however, Mr. Schwartz said the book would be titled “The Sociopath.”

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Melania lies about writing speech, Donald lied about writing "Art of the Deal" (Original Post) suffragette Jul 2016 OP
They are Trumps running on the GOP ticket. lpbk2713 Jul 2016 #1
Yep, lying liars, the both of them. suffragette Jul 2016 #4
When she lied to Matt Lauer about writing it lapfog_1 Jul 2016 #2
Good catch. Yes, a tell if ever there was one. suffragette Jul 2016 #3

lapfog_1

(29,194 posts)
2. When she lied to Matt Lauer about writing it
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 01:33 PM
Jul 2016

did you see Trumps body language?

the inadvertent look down and away (sure sign of lying) and then followed by a paternalistic beaming smile (I'm so proud that my smart wife wrote an important speech!)

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
3. Good catch. Yes, a tell if ever there was one.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 01:37 PM
Jul 2016

Both getting caught in their lies during week of RNC.

And it 's just the 1st day!

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