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When Donald Trump announced his candidacy last year,

one of the qualifications he listed was his best-selling book, The Art of the Deal.

Our country needs a truly great leader.

We need a leader that wrote the Art of the Deal.

Part memoir, part business advice book, and 100% self-promotion, the art of the deal presented

Trump as a genius negotiator and businessman.

Trump didn't exactly write the book, but he goes around claiming that he did, at least

according to the co-author or the ghost writer, Tony Schwartz.

Schwartz spent over a year with Trump back in 1986,

and he's never publicly talked about the process of writing it until now.

And he's full of regret.

He spoke with the New Yorkers Jane Mayer from his home in Riverdale, New York.

So, Tony, you've got some amazing insights into Donald Trump from having written The Art of the Deal.

Some are really quite revelatory.

But you've kept your silence on this subject for almost 30 years.

Why did you decide to speak up now?

It didn't feel important to me to say anything about Trump during the period that he was simply a real estate developer. And indeed, we'd had a very

good and successful experience together writing the book 30 years ago. But when he decided to run for president in the United States, it was something else

altogether.

And it made me feel that I needed to share what I knew with the public as widely as I

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