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6. TPM: 'Art Of The Deal' Ghostwriter Regrets Trump Book: 'I Put Lipstick On A Pig'

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‘Art Of The Deal’ Ghostwriter Regrets Trump Book: ‘I Put Lipstick On A Pig’
By Caitlin Mac Neal | July 18, 2016 11:43 a.m.

With Donald Trump set to secure the Republican nomination for president this week, the ghostwriter behind Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal,” revealed the real estate mogul’s true character that the book ignored.

“I put lipstick on a pig,” writer Tony Schwartz told the New Yorker. “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.”

Schwartz actually suggested that Trump write “The Art of the Deal” instead of the autobiography Trump had set out to pen. The real estate mogul then asked Schwartz to help him write the book, and Schwartz agreed when Trump offered him half of the advance and of the royalties.

“It was one of a number of times in my life when I was divided between the Devil and the higher side,” Schwartz told the New Yorker.

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