Former Trump Org VP: He Didn’t Want Black People To Build His Skyscrapers
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🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the new abnormal special bonus episode. We're so excited to have you. |
| 0:05.6 | Today we have a very special guest with Barbara Reese, who's a long time executive in Trump's |
| 0:10.2 | real estate company. And today she's going to talk about the Donald Trump that she knew. |
| 0:14.4 | Hi, Barbara, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:17.8 | My question. Talk to me about what your job was at the Trump organization. |
| 0:23.6 | Okay, well, yeah, I talked about my book 18 years. I was born 20 years, more than a year |
| 0:30.6 | back. I worked for H.O. East construction. The first two of those 18 years, both in the |
| 0:36.5 | Grand Hyde Hotel with Donald Wilson, the developer and the person in charge. So I got to know |
| 0:42.5 | him now and that's where he found me and invited me to be in charge of construction at Trump |
| 0:48.4 | power. So in 1980, I went through the Trump organization as a vice president and charge of construction |
| 0:54.4 | at Trump power. And I worked on that project for about four years and it was finishing |
| 0:59.8 | up. I decided I should leave because they didn't have anything big in the pipeline. |
| 1:05.4 | And I didn't want to hang around in just, you know, dual-street tenant spaces, that's |
| 1:09.8 | what I built that old thing. So I left them with the word thoughts round and I came back |
| 1:14.8 | two years later and I worked from 8687 to 91 as executive VP in charge of all development |
| 1:24.5 | and construction. And one of the things we were doing was working with some foreign and |
| 1:30.2 | other American partners on a project in California. So when I left the, physically, the organization, |
| 1:37.4 | I mean, my end time was a consultant and I still carried a Trump card and I was on that |
| 1:42.4 | project for about six, seven years. You talk a lot about E-Roteless Book because you really |
| 1:50.5 | believe that Trump shouldn't have another term and... Okay, well, in my book, Carob Lodge, |
| 1:56.3 | I talk about a lot of different things to have not come out in the public. I know, but |
| 2:03.4 | I know that only I know. And these things that I always behaved in meetings and conversations |
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