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elleng

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Wed Aug 10, 2016, 03:43 PM Aug 2016

The Sociopath’s Diary

'“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.” — Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” speaking to Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.

You know who I am. I don’t need to tell you. That’s the point. Everyone knows. That schmuck Schwartz, I made him a pile of money, didn’t have a cent before, and he thinks he wrote my book, but he couldn’t have written it without me. That’s O.K., but honestly he doesn’t even write good.

Never had a problem with the press. They don’t get it. I’ve crashed the system. I’m using the press, every one of them! Schwartz did have one phrase I really loved in my book. He said “I play to people’s fantasies” by using “truthful hyperbole.” What he meant is I make stuff up.

Sure. Nobody cares. They want to dream. They want a spectacle. They want gold and towers. They want me to get tough. Fact-checkers! Is that even a job?'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/the-sociopaths-diary.html?

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