The Ghostwriter of Art of The Deal speaks out again.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/24/1790723/--Art-of-the-Deal-ghostwriter-Weisselberg-flip-will-end-Trump-equivalent-to-Nixon-tapes



"When Tony Schwartz and Tim O’Brien speak about Donald Trump, you best listen. In the mid-’80s, Schwartz spent 18 months voluntarily embedded in Trump’s web of half-truths, lies, and outright howlers. The result was The Art of the Deal, which Schwartz wrote in its entirety and the semi-literate Trump subsequently took full credit for.

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Schwartz tried to warn the nation that Trump is a callow menace with the personal integrity and attention span of a pubic mite.

And he didn’t mince words. In a widely read New Yorker article, he abjectly apologized for his role in putting Trump at the doorstep of the White House:

“I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”

If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”


The above article, and the quote I copied, is scary.  What else can I say?