'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter regrets helping Trump, calls him 'Sociopath'

[Likely Voter]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

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[Xing]

Some people say anything about Big DonHillary to get attention. The same as the ridiculous claims that he raped a girlshe murdered Vince Foster twenty years ago. Sad!

FTFY

[ProudModerate2]

New book about trump, with the title “The Sociopath,” sounds about right.

[Cory]

"Get's the nuclear codes!!11!"

Can we stop with this meme? The President doesn't have the unilateral authority to utilize America's nuclear arsenal.

[Likely Voter]

"Get's the nuclear codes!!11!"

Can we stop with this meme? The President doesn't have the unilateral authority to utilize America's nuclear arsenal.

while not unitlateral it is close to it. The president can order a strike for any reason he wants, but it needs to be seconded by the SecDef and in theory POTUS could just keep firing SedDefs until he finds an acting one who will agree with him (kind of like that night Nixon fired the AG and asst AG until he found one who would fire the special prosecutor). The cabinet could stop him if they could organize and agree to remove him under the 25th amendment, but they would have to do that before the missiles started flying.

[ProudModerate2]

"Get's the nuclear codes!!11!"
Can we stop with this meme? The President doesn't have the unilateral authority to utilize America's nuclear arsenal.

while not unitlateral it is close to it. The president can order a strike for any reason he wants, but it needs to be seconded by the SecDef and in theory POTUS could just keep firing SedDefs until he finds an acting one who will agree with him (kind of like that night Nixon fired the AG and asst AG until he found one who would fire the special prosecutor). The cabinet could stop him if they could organize and agree to remove him under the 25th amendment, but they would have to do that before the missiles started flying.

And if someone just as nutty as trump is on his admiration and will "second" launching, like Carson .... forget it ..... the world will be glowing from nuclear fallout.

[Cory]

while not unitlateral it is close to it. The president can order a strike for any reason he wants, but it needs to be seconded by the SecDef and in theory POTUS could just keep firing SedDefs until he finds an acting one who will agree with him (kind of like that night Nixon fired the AG and asst AG until he found one who would fire the special prosecutor). The cabinet could stop him if they could organize and agree to remove him under the 25th amendment, but they would have to do that before the missiles started flying.

But that's not exactly a realistic scenario. If one madman in the Oval really tried that it could be one of the few things that could trigger a military coup in America.

[Sir Mohamed]

Sure, the Trumpster is a faker. He didn't write a comma in any of his books. Sad!!

[Ebowed]

"Get's the nuclear codes!!11!"

Can we stop with this meme? The President doesn't have the unilateral authority to utilize America's nuclear arsenal.

To be fair, Trump's hands are too small to single-handedly launch the codes.

[Badger]

while not unitlateral it is close to it. The president can order a strike for any reason he wants, but it needs to be seconded by the SecDef and in theory POTUS could just keep firing SedDefs until he finds an acting one who will agree with him (kind of like that night Nixon fired the AG and asst AG until he found one who would fire the special prosecutor). The cabinet could stop him if they could organize and agree to remove him under the 25th amendment, but they would have to do that before the missiles started flying.

But that's not exactly a realistic scenario. If one madman in the Oval really tried that it could be one of the few things that could trigger a military coup in America.

Ah, well that's reassuring.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

"Get's the nuclear codes!!11!"

Can we stop with this meme? The President doesn't have the unilateral authority to utilize America's nuclear arsenal.

To be fair, Trump's hands are too small to single-handedly launch the codes.

He can't catch the nuclear football...maybe Tom Brady can deflate it for him.

[ProudModerate2]

"Get's the nuclear codes!!11!"

Can we stop with this meme? The President doesn't have the unilateral authority to utilize America's nuclear arsenal.

To be fair, Trump's hands are too small to single-handedly launch the codes.

He can't catch the nuclear football...maybe Tom Brady can deflate it for him.

Ouch ! Actually .... Double-Ouch ! (to trump and Brady).

[PeteB]

Not unexpected...Trump threatens Schwartz with legal action.

After Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Trump’s defining memoir-slash-business book The Art of the Deal, gave an in-depth interview to the New Yorker in which he said that he felt “a deep sense of remorse” for contributing to Trump’s rise and declared that “if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes, there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization,” he received a cease-and-desist letter threatening “liability for damages and other tortious harm” as a result of his “defamatory statements.”

The letter, penned by Trump Organization general counsel Jason D Greenblatt, demanded that Schwartz mail “a certified check made payable to Mr Trump” for the seven-figure fortune he has earned from the book’s royalties, as well as his share of the book’s half-million dollar advance.

Greenblatt, citing “the totally baseless and shocking nature” of Schwart’z statements, also ordered the ghostwriter to issue a written retraction of his comments, which Greenblatt posited were fabricated out of professional resentment.

“Your defamatory statements are the sour grapes of a man who always wanted to do more with Mr Trump but was replaced with other writers,” Greenblatt wrote. “Your disloyalty to Mr Trump ... is disappointing and unacceptable.”

Schwartz told the New Yorker that, given Trump’s predilection for courtroom showdowns, he had anticipated legal threats from the Trump Organization, but said he planned to continue speaking out against the presidential candidate.

“I fully expected him to attack me, because that is what he does, so I can’t say I am surprised,” Schwartz said. “But I’m much more worried about his becoming president than I am about anything he might try to do to me.”