Yahoo Lifestyle Trump Biographer Busts Trump's Biggest Myth About Himself Wide Open
Donald Trump biographer Tim O’Brien on Wednesday laid bare what he sees as the facade of the former president as a business guru.
O’Brien, appearing on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” reflected on what he said was the former president’s yearslong practice of “stripping average folks from their paychecks” after The New York Times reported that more than $100 million of Trump’s legal fees had been paid from money fundraised off of his peddling of 2020 election lies.
O’Brien published “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald” in 2005 and previously was executive editor of The Huffington Post.
Trump’s Atlantic City casino business “busted average working-class folks on the premise that maybe they get rich,” O’Brien said. “Of course, some of them were going there for fun, but a larger sort of mojo of the business was selling a false dream to these folks.”
The four-times-indicted presumptive GOP nominee’s “Art Of The Deal” book was “meant to be a Bible about how to be successful in business, when in the real world he’s a serial bankruptcy artist,” he continued.
Trump presented himself on his NBC business reality show “The Apprentice” as an “entrepreneurial guru to the masses and the hardest working corporate executive in America when in fact he’s lazy and he plays golf most of the time and he’s not particularly bright,” O’Brien said.
Trump later monetized his presidency “whether it’s his hotel near the White House or now, in a really grand mal, grotesque way, taking campaign finance donations and using to pay his personal legal bills,” he added.
