about catching germs: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish.
“king” and . . . “killer”: Harry Hurt III, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 13.
urban Davy Crocketts: Interview with Brant.
eleven-inch blades: Blair, Trumps, 233.
“That’s crazy”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish.
was stunned: Interview with Brant.
swim to freedom: Interview with Vincent Cunningham, April 2016.
Mussolini’s dead body: Michael D’Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015), 42.
set up a boxing ring: “I Showered with Donald Trump at Military School,” Daily Beast, March 28, 2016.
“fucking prick”: “The Men Who Gave Trump His Brutal Worldview,” Politico, March 29, 2016.
“At the beginning”: Interview with Theodore Dobias, November 2015.
summer resort hotel: Samuel J. Rogal, The American Pre-College Military School (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 10.
A dirty uniform: “General Order No. 6: Scale of Punishment,” New York Military Academy.
white glove: Interview with Peter Ticktin, April 2016.
enough to lower a grade: Interview with Wayne Akstin, April 2016.
film included starlets: Interview with David M. Smith, April 2016.
Fred arrived in a limousine: Ibid.
Hazing was a part: Interviews with Michael Pitkow and Lee Ains, April 2016.
“on the ass”: Interview with Michael Scadron, November 2015.
medals for neatness: The Shrapnel, New York Military Academy yearbook, 1964, 105.
pride in his grades: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 74; and interview with Smith.
“going to be famous”: Interview with Jeff Orteneau, April 2016.
wealth doubled: Interview with Smith.
“He was self-confident”: Interview with Michael Pitkow, November 2015.
“going to the beach”: Interview with Smith.
“beautiful, gorgeous women”: Interview with George White (birth name George Witek), November 2015.
“dog”: Interview with George White, April 2016.
double dates: Interviews with Ernie Kirk, November 2015 and April 2016.
struck on the backside: Interview with cadet who was punished, May 2016. Cadet also recounted this incident in an affidavit connected to an unrelated lawsuit.
second-floor window: Interview with Ted Levine, May 2016.
“Trump swings . . . then HITS”: The Shrapnel, New York Military Academy yearbook, 1962.
“I thought it was amazing”: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 46.
“it was the only thing”: Ibid., 43.
“big, strong kid”: Interview with Gerald Paige, April 2016.
angry that he left: Interview with Levine.
concentrate on academics: Interview with John Cino, April 2016.
“could always go to Donald”: Interview with Jack Serafin, April 2016.
“You had to have thick skin”: Interview with Cunningham.
Klan was coming to get him: Interview with David Prince Thomas, April 2016.
“almost socially accepted”: Interview with Ticktin.
Barry Goldwater: Interview with Roger Stone, April 2016.
I LIKE IKE button: Interview with Brant.
New York’s Democratic establishment: Blair, Trumps, 212.
beating him with a stick: Interview with Michael Scadron, April 2016.
“even-keeled”: Interview with Ticktin.
shoved a new cadet: Interview with Lee Ains and another cadet, who asked to remain anonymous, November 2015.
relieved Trump of duty: Interviews with Lee Ains, William Specht, George White, David Smith, Ernie Kirk, Theodore Dobias, and Peter Ticktin.
“why I got elevated”: Interview with Donald Trump, December 2015.
Francis Cardinal Spellman: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 43.
“You know what, Ace?”: Interview with Serafin. Serafin recounted a story told to him by Helen Castellano, the wife of Anthony Castellano.
follow his father: Interview with Smith.
educational draft deferments: Selective Service records for Donald J. Trump.
to be closer to home: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 77.
$5.7 million: “Brooklyn Firm Buys Swifton Village,” Cincinnati Enquirer, April 15, 1964.
“He’d get in there and work with us”: “From Swifton Village to Trump Tower,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 28, 1990.
sunny and cloudless: New York Times, November 22, 1964.
“Nobody even mentioned”: “Verrazano Bridge Opened to Traffic,” New York Times, November 22, 1964.
wealth was evident: Interviews with Don Robinson and Robert Klein, April 2016.
three-piece suit: Interview with John P. Cifichiello, April 2016.
Donald’s doodles: Interview with Klein.
eager learner: Interviews with Richard O’Donnell and Don Robinson, April 2016.
Rich Marrin, a teammate: Gwenda Blair, The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).
golf clubs on the side of the road: Interview with squash player who spoke on the condition of remaining anonymous, April 2016.
belonged at an Ivy League school: Interview with Brian Fitzgibbon, April 2016.
without saying good-bye: Interview with O’Donnell.
blond mop of hair: Louis Calomaris interview with Washington Post, April 2016.
“Perhaps the most important thing”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 77.
first in the class: William D. Cohan, “Decades-Old Questions about Trump’s Wealth and Education,” New York Times, September 28, 2015.
honor roll printed: “Wharton Schools Reveal Dean’s List for 1967–68,” Daily Pennsylvanian, October 25, 1968.
“Trump was not”: Interview with Calomaris.
anti–Vietnam War protests: “Air Force, Penn End Spice Rack,” Daily Pennsylvanian, September 13, 1967.
university contracts: Alison D. Graham, “A Brief History of Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania: International Crisis, the War in Viet Nam,” UPenn Archives, 2007.
“would have gladly served”: Quoted in Craig Whitlock, “Questions Linger about Trump’s Draft Deferments during Vietnam War,” Washington Post, July 21, 2015.
“sniveled every Monday”: Terry Farrell interview with Washington Post, April 2016.
looking to buy apartments: Bill Specht interview with Washington Post, April 2016.
“He was wearing”: Maggie Parker, “Candice Bergen Says Her Date with Donald Trump Was ‘Short’—but She Does Remember His Burgundy Limo,” People, February 12, 2016.
“dating guys from Paris”: Matt Viser, “Even in College, Donald Trump Was Brash,” Boston Globe, August 28, 2015.
“I don’t know why”: Greg Stone, “Trump Towers over East; Shies Away from East,” Daily Pennsylvanian, November 24, 1987.
“next Bill Zeckendorf”: Interview with Calomaris.
CHAPTER 3: FATHER AND SON
They condemned: “Begin Action to Clear Coney Island Area for Housing Project,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 2, 1960.
thirty-eight hundred apartments: Kareen Fahim, “Brooklyn Towers Have Trump Name but No Limos,” New York Times, April 8, 2010.
shag carpeted: Philip Weiss, “The Lives They Lived: Fred C. Trump, b. 1905,” New York Times, January 2, 2000.
“become a nothing”: Fred C. Trump, 1985 Horatio Alger Award Winner video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWPTdme2_U.
“my standing and reputation”: Associated Press, “Tenafly Builder Balks at Inquiry,” New York Times, July 13, 1954.
$1.8 million: Edith Evans Asbury, “Housing Windfall Yielded 1.8 Million, Inquiry Here Told,” New York Times, January 27, 1966.
“Old Man Trump”: Will Kaufman, “Woody Guthrie,
‘Old Man Trump,’ and a Real Estate Empire’s Racist Foundations,” The Conversation.com.
Hoyt was allowed: Interview with Sheila Hoyt Morse by Michael Kranish, Washington Post; and United States of America v. Fred C. Trump, et al.
“immediately rent”: USA v. Trump, “Plaintiff’s Answers,” March 6, 1974.
Goldweber won a plum spot: Interview with Elyse Goldweber by Michael Kranish and Robert O’Harrow, Washington Post, January 11, 2016.
1 to 3.5 percent: September 24, 1973, memo to Attorney General Elliot Richardson, from USA v. Trump.
“No. 9”: USA v. Trump, “Plaintiff’s Answers,” March 6, 1974, 8.
Spiro remembered: Interview with Phyllis Spiro by Robert O’Harrow, Washington Post; and USA v. Trump.
“absolutely ridiculous”: Morris Kaplan, “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” New York Times, October 16, 1973.
his routine of going to lunch: Interview with Anthony Russo by Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, April 2016.
“real reason”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 78.
rent-control laws: Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 84.
CHAPTER 4: ROY COHN AND THE ART OF THE COUNTERATTACK
“13 princes”: David A. Andelman, “Le Club, Restaurant of the Jet Set, Cited for Health Code Violations,” New York Times, July 9, 1974.
“beautiful women”: Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, Trump: Art of the Deal (New York: Ballantine Books Trade Paperback ed., 2015), 93–98.
communists had infiltrated: Sidney Zion, The Autobiography of Roy Cohn (Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1988), 47–51.
“from the mob”: Ibid., 60.
prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: Ibid., 77.
“wreck the army”: “The Self-Inflated Target,” Time, March 22, 1954.
“better cause”: Zion, Autobiography, 81.
“don’t like lawyers”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (2015), 93–98.
“hands down”: Ken Auletta, “Don’t Mess with Roy Cohn,” Esquire, December 5, 1978, 41.
“never really knew”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (2015), 93–98.
“Prospective clients who”: Auletta, “Don’t Mess with Roy Cohn,” 41.
“two-faced”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (2015), 93–99.
He sought $100 million: Barbara Campbell, “Realty Company Asks $100 Million ‘Bias’ Damages,” New York Times, December 13, 1973.
“I have never”: Donald Trump affidavit, December 11, 1973, in United States of America v. Fred and Donald Trump and Trump Management, Case 75-C-1529.
“these initial headlines”: Roy Cohn affidavit, December 11, 1973, in USA v. Fred and Donald Trump.
“The defendants have refused”: USA v. Fred and Donald Trump, US Courthouse, Brooklyn, NY, January 25, 1974, accessed via National Archives.
“hot-tempered”: Roy Cohn letter to Elyse Goldweber, April 17, 1974, USA v. Fred and Donald Trump.
he was “unfamiliar”: Wayne Barrett, “Like Father, Like Son,” Village Voice, January 15, 1979.
“the nature of Gestapo tactics”: USA v. Fred and Donald Trump, October 24, 1974.
find Goldstein in contempt: Goldstein, who was a California Superior Court judge when the Post sought to reach her in 2016, declined comment.
“pay for it?”: USA v. Fred and Donald Trump, June 10, 1975.
“many, many landlords”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish.
Newspaper headlines echoed: “Minorities Win Housing Suit,” New York Amsterdam News, July 9, 1975.
“rough piece”: Donald Trump interview with Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish, Washington Post, June 9, 2016.
Fred was livid: Karen DeYoung, “N.Y. Owner of P.G. Units Seized in Code Violations,” Washington Post, September 30, 1976.
$3,640 fine: Prince George’s County district court records, May 3, 1977.
“terrible”: Elizabeth Becker, “Apartment Rentals Halted Until Repairs Are Made,” Washington Post, October 29, 1976.
he “never knew”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish, June 9, 2016.
“unavailable”: US v. Trump, “Motion for Supplemental Relief,” March 7, 1978.
“tall, lean and blond”: Judy Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter, Builds Image as He Buys Buildings,” New York Times, November 1, 1976.
$24,594: State of New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Gaming Enforcement, “In re the application of Trump Plaza Corp. for a casino license,” report to the Casino Control Commission, October 17, 1981.
CHAPTER 5: CROSSING THE BRIDGE
cost of city services soared: Barrett, Trump, 103.
“hooked on heroin”: Felix G. Rohatyn, Dealings: A Political and Financial Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 124.
World War II: William G. Connolly, “In Hotels, the Key Is Occupancy, and It Is Up a Little,” New York Times, December 17, 1972.
Trump family business: Barrett, Trump, 103.
sellers in California, Nevada: Marilyn Bender, “The Empire and Ego of Donald Trump,” New York Times, August 7, 1983.
invest in Manhattan: Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Trump Swam in Mob-Infested Waters in Early Years as an NYC Developer,” Washington Post, October 16, 2015.
with each lot: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 76.
fifty-three banks: Robert E. Bedingfield, “Penn Central and Banks Reach Loan Pact,” New York Times, May 25, 1971.
fielded interest: Youssef M. Ibrahim, “Mideast Bid for 3 New York Hotels,” New York Times, May 5, 1978.
Multiple offers: Connolly, “In Hotels, the Key Is Occupancy.”
single bid: Philip Greer, “Penn Central Bids Are Low: Railroad May Seek More Funds,” Washington Post, October 16, 1971.
have the financing: Timothy L. O’Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald (New York: Business Plus, 2005), 61.
turned the gift down: Ibid., 261.
“my complete backing”: Barrett, Trump, 94.
initially opposed: Wayne Barrett, “Donald Trump Cuts the Cards: The Deals of a Young Power Broker,” Village Voice, January 22, 1979.
without any indictments: Barrett, Trump, 102.
any quid pro quo: Ibid., 114; and “Behind the Seventies-Era Deals That Made Donald Trump,” Village Voice, February 1979.
same opportunity: Wayne Barrett, “Behind the Seventies-Era Deals That Made Donald Trump,” Village Voice, February 1979.
creating an empire: Robert D. McFadden, “Penn Central Yards’ Sale Is Approved by U.S. Court,” New York Times, March 11, 1975.
the plan soon collapsed: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 60.
Trump now held the option: Bender, “Empire and Ego of Donald Trump.”
except the candidate’s brother: Howard Blum, “Trump: The Development of a Manhattan Developer,” New York Times, August 26, 1980.
with DJT plates: Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter.”
blue Cadillac: Paul Schwartzman, “Trump Left His Mark All Over New York. Some in the City Would Like to Erase It,” Washington Post, October 7, 2015.
“Donald’s credibility factor”: Interview with Louise Sunshine, April 2016.
flexing his connections: Interview with Peter Goldmark, May 4, 2016.
barely a tenth: Former deputy mayor Peter J. Solomon, quoted in Blum, “Trump.”
Javits Convention Center: Charles Kaiser, “Koch Said to Have Chosen 34th St. as Site of New Convention Center,” New York Times, March 31, 1978.
“came to me properly”: Trump, quoted in Blum, “Trump.”
Winning the right: Barrett, Trump, 103.
coursed through the subway lines: Edward C. Burks, “15 Busiest Subway Stations Show Big Decline in Riders,” New York Times, November 10, 1975.
fleeing to the suburbs: Ibid.
New York’s largest: Connolly, “In Hotels, the Key Is Occupancy.”
business gutted: Ibid.
&nbs
p; Relaxation Plus: Ibid.
“what the Plus meant”: Olivia Nuzzi, “Trump Lies So Much Less to NY Mega-Rich,” Daily Beast, April 15, 2016.
in other words, nothing: Connolly, “In Hotels, the Key Is Occupancy.”
at Madison Square Garden: Glenn Fowler, “Commodore Plan Is Called Unfair,” New York Times, April 9, 1976.
biggest development headaches: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 56.
“a seat on the Titanic”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 121.
“best place to live”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (2015), 102.
venture collapsed: Barrett, Deals and the Downfall, 147.
no hotel in New York: Alan S. Oser, “Hotel Dispute Focuses on Tax Abatements,” New York Times, April 27, 1976.
father’s company: State of New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Gaming, Enforcement Report to the Casino Control Commission, October 16, 1981, PDF36.
not yet secured: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 128.
$10 million property: Ibid., 123.
to hire an architect: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 61.
aging hotel’s steel bones: Robert E. Tomasson, “Deal Negotiated for Commodore,” New York Times, May 4, 1975.
to pay the $250,000: Trump with Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 134.
deal with Hyatt to closure: Ibid.
“shove it”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (2015), 130.
commercial property: “Estimate Board to Rule on Easing of Tax Allowing Commodore Transformation,” New York Times, March 3, 1976.
properties tax-exempt: Barrett, Trump, 121.
ninety-nine years: Charles Kaiser, “Financing Arranged for the Commodore,” New York Times, December 23, 1977.
forty years: David Cay Johnston, “21 Questions for Donald Trump,” The National Memo, July 10, 2015.
walked out of the office: Interview with Richard Ravitch, 2016.
deserved a helping hand: Fowler, “Commodore Plan Is Called Unfair.”
Commodore would rot: “3 Lawmakers Are Critical of Commodore Tax Relief,” New York Times, April 26, 1976.
dirty scrap wood: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 103.
other investors were interested: Carter B. Horsley, “New Offer Is Made for the Commodore,” New York Times, April 10, 1976.
“first-class” hotel: State of New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Gaming, Enforcement Report to the Casino Control Commission, October 16, 1981, PDF50.
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