Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartzs sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the days big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he began to feel personally implicated.
Trump, facing a crowd that had gathered in the lobby of Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue, laid out his qualifications, saying, We need a leader that wrote The Art of the Deal. If that was so, Schwartz thought, then he, not Trump, should be running. Schwartz dashed off a tweet: Many thanks Donald Trump for suggesting I run for President, based on the fact that I wrote The Art of the Deal.
Schwartz had ghostwritten Trumps 1987 br…
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