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Quotes from The Making of Donald Trump — David Cay Johnston

born 1948 United States

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Trump declared he would become the first person to run for president and make a profit.

The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

For five months, Trump's campaign manager was Paul Manafort, advisor to dictators and near dictators including a pro-Moscow regime in Ukraine that was ousted by a popular uprising.

The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

Trump doesn't know anything. ...Trump's own words and conduct ...and his comments on many issues ...show how appallingly ignorant he is.

The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

[H]e does not have a clue about the Constitution's system of checks and balances.

The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

While at my last paper, I won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing so many tax dodges and loopholes that a prominent tax lawyer called me the "de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States."

The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

Trump has worked hard to make sure few... know about his lifelong entanglements with a major cocaine trafficker [Joseph Weichselbaum].., with American and Russian mobsters and many mob associates, and with various con artists and swindlers.

The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Cay Johnston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.