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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:28 AM Aug 2016

There are two new books about Trump out- both paint a dire picture of Trump's history and

and predict how he might operate if elected President.

‘No time to read ... I want it short’: Best of Washington Post’s forthcoming Trump book


Donald Trump has never found time to read a biography of a president; prefers quick, preferably oral briefings to detailed reports; relishes the Secret Service hoopla; and once said that you become iconic by seeking more publicity after people are tired of you.

These and more are the highlights of "Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power,” written by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher. Trump gave more than 20 hours of interviews to the Washington Post reporters who worked on the 431-page book, to be published Tuesday by Scribner.

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Trump never sounded angry in the [Washington Post editorial board] meeting [in March]. ... The editors who wanted more than anything else to figure out how much of Trump’s campaign manner was shtick and how much was real venom emerged thinking that they had seen the genuine Trump – a man certain of his views, hugely confident in his abilities, not terribly well informed, quick to take offense.” (p. 11)

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--“As Trump’s empire spread, some of the people closest to him noticed a change. He grew more distant, sometimes petulant, sometimes explosive.” (p. 99)

--“He began drinking his diets sodas through a straw, and only when they came from Norma Foerderer, his executive assistant [who died in 2013], because he was too afraid of others’ germs.” (p. 100)


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/washington-post-trump-book-best-parts-227259#ixzz4I3zBqQr4
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And by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston:

New book reveals ‘con man’ Donald Trump is even sleazier and more underhanded than you think

David Cay Johnston has been one of the nation’s premier investigative reporters for decades, specializing in the ways government works for the wealthy at the expense of everyday Americans. He first met and covered Donald Trump in the 1980s. In his latest book, The Making of Donald Trump, he profiles the many ways the Republican presidential nominee has gotten wealthy by bilking others, colluding with criminals, evading prosecution, and romancing the press. I spoke with Johnston recently about his new book.

Steven Rosenfeld: What are you trying to show readers about Donald Trump that they might not know?

David Cay Johnston: As you know, I’ve been trying to show people how government is creating inequality though all of these rules and laws that nobody knows about. The political donor class—a phrase that I coined by the way—are doing what economists call rent seeking. So I understand people who are terrified—they should be—and who think the government has worked against them. What’s nutty is this belief that Donald Trump is their friend.

This is a man who started his [presidential] campaign by saying wages are too high. This is a man who, when he does construction projects, deals with mob-controlled unions. That’s why Trump Towers [in Manhattan] are concrete, because the steelworkers are an honest union. This is a man who cheats workers out of their pay. Four dollars an hour he paid, and he cheated them out of some of their pay. That’s what a judge found. This is a man who tells vendors, Do this work. They do it and then he says, I am not going to pay you.

I don’t know if you saw the piece the other day where the manager, or whoever was responsible as his witness, at the Doral [Miami], over this guy who didn’t get paid the last $34,000 for his paint—he was a Benjamin Moore paint dealer—testified Mr. Trump felt he had paid enough. Nobody runs their business on that basis. You can think, and with good reason, of all sorts of bad things that corporations do. But they don’t go around saying to vendors or workers, “Uh, we paid enough. We’re not going to pay you.”

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SR: Have you seen that impulse change since you started covering him in the ’80s?

DCJ: Donald is 70 years old. I’m almost the same age, I’m 67. He’s not any different than when I met him, when he was in his early 40s. Donald is a guy who has no empathy for other people, who doesn’t see other people as human beings. He sees them as things to be used. That’s why when he was challenged about cutting off health care for his sickly grandnephew, over money, and he was asked, as I report in the book, “Don’t you think that will look cold-hearted?” [He replied] “What else can I do?” There is no moral core inside Donald Trump. There is no moral compass. It doesn’t exist.



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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/new-book-reveals-con-man-donald-trump-is-even-sleazier-and-more-underhanded-than-you-think/

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Cary

(11,746 posts)
1. The enemy is real
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:36 AM
Aug 2016

Their ideology is dangerous. The Nuremberg guards were amazed at how buffoonish their prisoners were.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
3. The banality of evil. I don't agree with everything I've read by Hannah Arendt
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:47 AM
Aug 2016

or everything she claimed in 'Eichmann in Jerusalem', but I think it's fair to say she was on to something with some of her conclusions.

Cary

(11,746 posts)
4. Agreed
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:50 AM
Aug 2016

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And I don't think I overstate the danger of their ideology.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
5. I think it's NOT hyperbole to say you can't overstate the danger of Trump
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:58 AM
Aug 2016

and the muddled ideology he and his followers are promulgating.

One caveat: I'm not sure that Trump has anything resembling a coherent ideology beyond his self-worship and willingness to say anything to his hordes of followers, who are in search of a "strong man" to "fix" things.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
7. He's a tin pot dictator wannabe. Virtually everything in his past indicates that that's
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 09:25 AM
Aug 2016

how he'd attempt to operate should he (shudder) win the White House.

Cary

(11,746 posts)
8. I wish I could show you my Facebook timeline
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 09:27 AM
Aug 2016

OMG. The racism that I have to delete.

And they honestly don't believe they are racist.

Doodley

(8,976 posts)
2. I hope they become best sellers! In other good news, the Trump-Pence book is a FLOP - only has
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:41 AM
Aug 2016

one review on Amazon! And that reviewer just happened to review another pro-Trump book on the same say (probably a paid Trumper).

https://www.amazon.com/TRUMP-PENCE-Ticket-Hillary-Clinton-Election-ebook/dp/B01IGXVW7M/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471869334&sr=1-6&keywords=trump

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