‘Art Of The Deal’ Ghostwriter On Why Trump Should Not Be President

When Mayer interviewed Trump about the book’s provenance, he denied that Schwartz was the architect.

On Thursday, reached by e-mail on an airplane, Schwartz said that he would continue to speak out against Trump, and that he would make no retractions or apologies. And he made a few red marks in the manuscript and sent it back to me, and the rest was history. In an interview with The New Yorker, Trump acknowledged Schwartz as his co-author but insisted he wrote his own memoir.

Now, he’s feeling the backlash after voicing his regrets – and the bloviating billionaire has even demanded his erstwhile confidante repay all royalties since the book’s release almost three decades ago.

Note, Schwartz recently sat down with the New Yorker to offer his perspective, and a FedEx delivery arrived soon after with a cease-and-desist letter – a development the author described as “nuts”.

“There’s no basis in anything legal”, said Schwartz, who is also scheduled to be a panelist on Bill Maher’s Real Time on Wednesday night. “It’s great disloyalty. I guess he thinks it’s good for him – but he’ll find out it’s not good for him”, Trump said.

“The Art of the Deal” was co-written by Tony Scwartz, who’s now having second thoughts about helping the outspoken mogul ride a wave to the top of the Republican party. Whenever “the thin veneer of Trump’s vanity is challenged”, Schwartz says, he overreacts-not an ideal quality in a head of state. Schwartz called the notion that he didn’t write the book “preposterous” and claimed that he nearly didn’t finish writing the book. Greenblatt’s letter claims that Schwartz has “pleaded with Mr. Trump to provide you with more work”.

“I am not certain that Donald Trump read every word, but I am sure certain that I wrote every word” of the book, he said. “But I like the idea that, the more copies that “The Art of the Deal” sells, the more money I can donate to the people whose rights Trump seeks to abridge”.

Schwartz told New Yorker writer Jane Meyer that the raving Republican had already threatened him with legal action, before the article even came out.

The letter reportedly demands, among other things, that Tony Schwartz return all the royalty payments he received from the book.

“Without me, you wouldn’t be where you are now”. Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, has referred to Trump as someone who “traffic [s] in fear”.

“The Art of the Deal” led to Trump’s starring role in the reality TV show “The Apprentice”.