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(2,657 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 04:00 PM Aug 2016

New bio 'Trump Revealed' offers troubling portrait

source: USA Today

" For Donald Trump, real estate magnate, casino mogul and reality TV star, it's clear there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Even so, it's hard to imagine he will embrace Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power (Scribner, 347 pp., ***½ out of four stars), The Washington Post's dive into the Republican presidential nominee's life and business record.

Any voter who is not already devoted to Trump's cause will find plenty of reason to think long and hard about whether to support him after reading this book. It's crammed with court records, financial data, anecdotes and interviews about Trump's unscrupulous business practices, his liberal use of "truthful hyperbole" and false promises to make himself rich, usually at the expense of others.
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more at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/08/22/trump-revealed-michael-kranish-marc-fisher-washington-post-book-review/88945500/

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New bio 'Trump Revealed' offers troubling portrait (Original Post) 63splitwindow Aug 2016 OP
hes loving MFM008 Aug 2016 #1
Trump is a liar Gothmog Aug 2016 #2
Sounds interesting ... but at the price I'll pass. left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 #3
On the bright side, it's not "troubling" to me that it will bug the heck out of him n/t UTUSN Aug 2016 #4

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
3. Sounds interesting ... but at the price I'll pass.
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 08:46 PM
Aug 2016

It's getting mixed reviews on Amazon but I'm thinking the people who give it one star out of five and trash it are probably Trump supporters.

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