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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER that connects the dots from Donald Trump's racist background to the Russian scandals
"A searing indictment." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Johnston has given us this year's must-read Trump book." — Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
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The winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, David Cay Johnston is also a specialist in social inequality, political economy, and taxation who has written several best-selling books on these topics, such as Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With the Bill. Johnston has interviewed Trump and has been investigating Donald since the late 1980s.
This book was the first and most inclusive overview of Trump’s shady business career in real estate, highlighting his six casino and hotel bankruptcies in the 1990s and up to his run for the presidency…
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