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A tale of many Trumps: book reveals the showman, womaniser and slick operator
Source: The Guardian
A tale of many Trumps: book reveals the showman, womaniser and slick operator
Donald Trump shrugs off his past political flip-flopping in his resolute
pursuit of power and celebrity in Trump Revealed, a book by Washington
Post journalists
Dan Roberts in Washington and Lauren Gambino in New York
Tuesday 23 August 2016 21.29 BST
Donald Trump’s shifting political and business loyalties are laid bare in a new book that challenges his credentials as a conviction politician in often lurid detail.
Despite a recent campaign focus on letting “Trump be Trump”, the 431-page biography instead charts the career of many Trumps: the showman, the womaniser, and a business partner who quickly ditches failing schemes.
The book, the first of several expected on Trump, was compiled by a team of two dozen Washington Post journalists, led by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, during a three-month period earlier this year, in which they had some 20 hours of interviews with him.
Challenged with evidence that he had changed party affiliation seven times between 1999 and 2012, the Republican candidate defended his political flip-flopping as a necessary expediency. “I think it had to do more with practicality, because if you’re going to run for office, you would have had to make friends,” he told the authors.
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Donald Trump shrugs off his past political flip-flopping in his resolute
pursuit of power and celebrity in Trump Revealed, a book by Washington
Post journalists
Dan Roberts in Washington and Lauren Gambino in New York
Tuesday 23 August 2016 21.29 BST
Donald Trump’s shifting political and business loyalties are laid bare in a new book that challenges his credentials as a conviction politician in often lurid detail.
Despite a recent campaign focus on letting “Trump be Trump”, the 431-page biography instead charts the career of many Trumps: the showman, the womaniser, and a business partner who quickly ditches failing schemes.
The book, the first of several expected on Trump, was compiled by a team of two dozen Washington Post journalists, led by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, during a three-month period earlier this year, in which they had some 20 hours of interviews with him.
Challenged with evidence that he had changed party affiliation seven times between 1999 and 2012, the Republican candidate defended his political flip-flopping as a necessary expediency. “I think it had to do more with practicality, because if you’re going to run for office, you would have had to make friends,” he told the authors.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/23/trump-revealed-book-washington-post-interviews-ambition
