invited Donald Trump: Roger Khafif interview with Sullivan.
Trump name attached: “Thatcher Proffitt Completed Trump Ocean Club Bond Offering,” PR Newswire, November 20, 2007.
the details of the project: Interviews with Kevin Sullivan, 2016. Khafif would not disclose the percentage of each sale that Trump would receive. Garten declined to discuss any financial details.
about $50 million: Interviews with Sullivan. The sources asked not to be identified out of fear of retaliation from Trump. “Trump sues everybody,” said one, a condominium owner in the Trump building. Garten declined to discuss the financial details of the project.
between January 2014 and July 2015: Helderman and Hamburger, “Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure Lists Hundreds of Positions and Deals.”
management fees: Donald Trump’s personal financial disclosure, Washington Post, released on May 18, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/donald-trumps-personal-financial-disclosure/2033/.
Problems started: Jeff Barton, “Trump Ocean Club: The Good, Bad and Ugly (Part 1),” Panama Property News, September 25, 2014.
filed for Chapter 11: Maria Chutchian, “Panamanian Trump Hotel’s Developer’s Ch. 11 Plan Gets Nod,” Law360.com, May 30, 2013.
$50 million: Khafif interview with Sullivan.
the bankruptcy deal: Jeff Horwitz, “Panama Condo Owners to Trump: You’re Fired!” Associated Press, October 11, 2015.
paid $100: Panama public land records, obtained by the Washington Post, April 2016.
Trump’s local managers: Many details of the dispute were first reported by the Associated Press.
had overspent: Interviews with Sullivan.
managers proposed imposing: Ibid.
$25 million: There is some dispute about the amount Trump sought. The Associated Press reported that Trump sued the condo owners for “as much as $75 million,” and a condo owner interviewed by the Washington Post also said Trump had sued for $75 million. But Garten said that was an incorrect reading of the complaint. He said Trump’s complaint, which he wrote, sought $25 million on each of several “causes of action.” He said it was misleading to add each of those demands together, so the total that Trump sought was $25 million. “I’m not saying that’s not a lot of money, but we never sued them for $75 million,” he said. The Washington Post was unable to obtain a copy of the confidential complaint or settlement.
by the Associated Press: Jeff Horwitz, “Fired by Panama Condo Owners, Trump Demands $75 Million,” Associated Press, November 4, 2015.
board backed down: Interviews with two people involved in the dispute, Kevin Sullivan, 2016.
“protect our interests”: Interview with Sullivan.
Stevenson, Trump’s former: Interview with Sullivan.
“celebrities will descend”: Karen Grant, “Donald Trumpets New Dawn for Golf,” Aberdeen Evening Express, April 1, 2006.
“being sawn off”: “Me Take over Millionaire? Don’t (Piggy) Bank on It,” Aberdeen Press and Journal, April 3, 2006.
grand promises: Martin Ford interview with Jenna Johnson, April 12, 2016.
“he’s funny, too”: Severin Carrell, “Heir of Stornoway: Trump’s Flying Visit to the Family Home,” Guardian, June 10, 2008.
“read so much”: Morag Lindsay, “Laid-Back Millionaire Confident of Triumph,” Aberdeen Press and Journal, June 11, 2008.
“know how to buy”: Craig Walker, “Trump & Ford Clash at Inquiry,” Aberdeen Evening Express, June 10, 2008.
“like a pig”: Quoted in Anthony Baxter, You’ve Been Trumped, documentary film, Montrose Pictures, 2012.
“obliterated by a slum”: Frank Urquhart, “Donald Trump Jets In and Fires Off ‘Slum and Pigsty’ Slur,” The Scotsman, May 27, 2010.
ripped them out: David Milne interview with Johnson, April 1, 2016.
declined to attend: Scot Macnab, “Nicola Sturgeon Rules Out Meeting Donald Trump at Turnberry,” Edinburgh Evening News, June 10, 2016.
“already been won”: Donald Trump, “Why Scotland Will Help Me Become US President,” Aberdeen Press and Journal, April 11, 2016.
CHAPTER 15: SHOWMAN
throbbing mass: Aaron Oster, “Donald Trump and WWE: How the Road to the White House Began at ‘WrestleMania,’ ” Rolling Stone, February 1, 2016.
“lions in the jungle”: Steve Kraske, “Flamboyant Trump Plays the Presidential Hinting Game,” Contra Costa Times, February 13, 2000.
“screw them back”: Robert McCoppin, “Amen, Brother! Financial Gods Trump and Robbins Whip Expo Crowd into a Frenzy, but Investors Come for Straight-Shooting Sermons,” Chicago Daily Herald, November 10, 2005.
“Look up at the sky, Vince”: “Donald Trump Gives Away Mr. McMahon’s Money on Fan,” YouTube, posted July 3, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybtwzNpJ0YA.
“grapefruits are no match”: “Mr. McMahon and Donald Trump’s Battle of the Billionaires Contract Signing,” YouTube, posted December 8, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVeVcVBW_CE.
“gave him a wallop”: “Donald Trump Hits Wrestling Promoter Vince McMahon,” YouTube, posted August 14, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CjKfO6ef0.
“He was working crowds”: Court Bauer interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“What Donald stands for”: Ibid.
“hostile takeover”: “The Battle of the Billionaires Takes Place at WrestleMania,” YouTube, posted July 19, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE.
“He exceeded all expectations”: Bauer interview with Schwartzman.
an electric shaver: “The Battle of the Billionaires Takes Place at WrestleMania,” YouTube, posted July 19, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE.
“a great entertainer”: NBC News transcripts, April 2, 2007, https://www.nexis.com/results/enhdocview.do?docLinkInd=true&ersKey=23_T24134647381&format=GNBFI&startDocNo=76&resultsUrlKey=0_T24134669170&backKey=20_T24134669171&csi=157446&docNo=99.
“my esteemed pleasure”: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, season 4, episode 25, “For Sale by Owner,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1gj010oa8.
in cameos: Donald Trump’s IMDb page, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874339/?ref_=rvi_nm.
“there are knives”: Ghosts Can’t Do It, dir. John Derek (1989: Triumph Releasing), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co0aDXPTK5o.
“particular about his hair”: Shelley Jensen interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“real estate mogul”: Ibid.
“Mr. Trump here wrote Art of the Deal”: Spin City, season 2, episode 14, “The Paul Lassiter Story,” January 21, 1998.
“this crazy, paranoid guy”: Walter Barnett interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“he could be difficult”: Andy Cadiff interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“A cosmopolitan and Donald Trump”: Sex and the City, season 2, episode 8, “The Man, the Myth, the Viagra.”
“want to study them?”: Victoria Hochberg interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“you’re really beautiful”: New York City Inner Circle Show 2000, dir. Elliot Cuker, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8.
“a traveling judge”: Elliot Cuker interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“ ‘I’m not doing that’ ”: T. Sean Shannon interview with Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“making fun of him”: Ibid.
“great to be here”: Saturday Night Live, season 29, episode 16, https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/season-29/episode/16-donald-trump-with-toots-and-the-maytals-63841.
straw hat and overalls: 57th Annual Emmy Awards, CBS, September 18, 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZqFGLAeAc.
“pop-culture oddity”: Diane Werts, “The Emmys; The Donald ‘Idolized,’ ” Newsday, September 19, 2005.
“really needed to win”: Megan Mullally interview on Conan, January 18, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47meFVgINLU.
nuptials live: Neil Wilkes, “Trump Regrets Not Televising W
edding,” DigitalSpy, February 5, 2005, http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a19014/trump-regrets-not-televising-wedding/.
fifteen hundred crystals: Julia Ioffe, “Melania Trump on Her Rise, Her Family Secrets, and Her True Political Views,” GQ, April 27, 2016.
serenading the couple: Michael Callahan, “Flashback: When Hillary and Bill Hit the Wedding of Donald and Melania,” Hollywood Reporter, April 7, 2016.
“no-maintenance woman”: Trump, Trump: The Art of the Comeback, 141.
“She was a homebody”: Edit Molnar interview with Mary Jordan, September 2015.
“a celebrity myself”: Melania Trump interview with Mary Jordan, April 2016.
“We like the same things”: Ibid.
“Donald the best”: Louise Sunshine interview with Frances Stead Sellers and Paul Schwartzman, May 2016.
“Sometimes he listens”: Melania Trump interview with Jordan.
“the great beauties”: Trump interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, April 2016.
“more models’ lives”: Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump, March 15, 2011, http://www.cc.com/shows/roast-of-donald-trump.
“ ‘I have less money’ ”: “In Bed with Joan: Episode 7,” published April 17, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJdVL2O7Nok.
“You suck!”: Video of ceremony posted April 9, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl6cL9GYs0.
selling off his shares: Drew Harwell, Rosalind S. Helderman, and Tom Hamburger, “Trump’s Business Booms as He Runs for President, Financial Disclosures Show,” Washington Post, May 19, 2016.
“I sold it”: Trump interview with Frances Stead Sellers, November 2015.
CHAPTER 16: POLITICAL CHAMELEON
This had been the setting: Schwartzman, “How Trump Got Religion.”
The first signs: Weiss, “The Lives They Lived: Fred C. Trump.” Trump sold his interest in the Empire State Building in 2002.
Hundreds of mourners: Angela Mosconi, “Trump Patriarch Eulogized as Great Builder,” New York Post, June 30, 1999.
ten stained glass: http://www.marblechurch.org/welcome/history/.
shared stories: Blair, Trumps, 203.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: Mosconi, “Trump Patriarch Eulogized as Great Builder.”
When it was Donald’s turn: Blair, The Trumps, 203.
“The name just sells”: Robin Pogrebin, “Protests Supplanted by Praise; Trump Place Becomes Real, and Even Popular,” New York Times, June 25, 1999.
“toughest day”: Mosconi, “Trump Patriarch Eulogized as Great Builder.”
his best friend: Trump interview with Shawn Boburg, Robert O’Harrow, Drew Harwell, Amy Goldstein, and Jerry Markon, Washington Post, May 18, 2016.
“loneliness and responsibility”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish, June 8, 2016.
to see himself differently: Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2000), 23.
a condolence letter: Ibid., 24.
died when an airplane: Mike Allen, “Bodies from Kennedy Crash Are Found,” New York Times, July 22, 1999.
the glowing obituaries: Trump, The America We Deserve, 23.
death was perhaps: Trump interview with Boburg, O’Harrow, Harwell, Goldstein, and Markon. In the interview, Trump, when asked whether his father’s death prompted him to run for president, said: “I would imagine perhaps it did, but maybe inwardly.”
“Today’s Super Rich”: Rona Barrett interview with Robert Samuels, Washington Post, May 18, 2016.
“we just sit back”: Trump interview with Rona Barrett, October 6, 1980, Reelin’ in the Years Productions.
wanted a winner: George Arzt and Cindy Darrison interviews with Shawn Boburg, Washington Post, May 18, 2016.
opposing candidates: Analysis of New York City, New York State, and federal campaign finance data by Alice Crites, Washington Post.
“someone who was going to continue”: George Arzt interview with Shawn Boburg, Washington Post, May 19, 2016.
Armed with subpoena power: Transcript of “Hearing on Campaign Finance Practices of Citywide and Statewide Officials,” State of New York Commission on Government Integrity, March 14, 1988.
But Trump “circumvented”: “Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry,” Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force (New York: New York University Press, 1990), 120.
a different name: Transcript of “Hearing on Campaign Finance Practices of Citywide and Statewide Officials,” State of New York Commission on Government Integrity, March 14, 1988.
In June 1985: Ibid.
More than thirty years: O’Harrow, “Trump Swam in Mob-Infested Waters.”
He gave more than: Martin Tolchin, “10 Pay Fines for Excessive Campaign Donations,” New York Times, March 18, 1993.
Trump Tower that summer: Michael Dunbar interview with Robert Samuels, Washington Post, April 29, 2016.
They had a deal: Dunbar interview with Samuels.
A few weeks later: Michael Oreskes, “Trump Gives a Vague Hint of Candidacy,” New York Times, September 2, 1987.
“There’s nothing wrong”: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s foreign defense policy that a little backbone can’t cure,” newspaper advertisement, The Trump Organization, Washington Post, September 2, 1987.
Trump told a Washington Post reporter in 1984: Lois Romano, “Donald Trump, Holding All the Cards, The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future!,” Washington Post, November 15, 1984.
“Hint of Candidacy”: Oreskes, “Trump Gives a Vague Hint of Candidacy.”
“have had enough”: Amy Hart, “Trump Tells Rotarians He’s Not Running for President,” Foster’s Democrat Daily, October 24, 1987, provided by Michael Dunbar.
“running for president”: Hart, “Trump Tells Rotarians He’s Not Running for President.”
planted a seed: Michael Dunbar interview with Robert Samuels, Washington Post, April 29, 2016.
“a large ego”: Letter from Frank Donatelli to Tom Criscom, November 19, 1987, ID#547309, White House Office of Records Management Subject Files, Reagan Presidential Library.
“Dear Donald”: David K. Li, “ ‘Donald Trump Will Be a Winner’ Predicted Richard Nixon,” New York Post, September 9, 2015.
“helluva chance of winning”: Trump interview with Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show, April 25, 1988.
why he was there: Trump interview with Larry King, CNN, August 17, 1988.
“principles of the Republican Party”: Ibid.
“roving bands of wild criminals”: Michael Wilson, “Trump Draws Criticism for Ad He Ran after Jogger Attack,” New York Times, October 23, 2002.
Trump was “greedy”: Alan Finder, “The Koch-Trump Feud,” New York Times, June 1, 1987.
“executed for their crimes”: Wilson, “Trump Draws Criticism for Ad He Ran after Jogger Attack.”
“hatemongering ad”: Al Sharpton letter, “Sharpton Urges Don King, Tyson to Boycott Trump,” New York Amsterdam News, May 13, 1989.
New York’s problems: Fox 5 News, WNYW, transcript and tape, May 1, 1989.
“You better believe that”: Oliver Laughland, “Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: The Racially Charged Rise of a Demagogue,” Guardian, February 17, 2016. Video: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york.
Trump’s assertion “garbage”: The NBC-TV special R.A.C.E. aired during the first week of September 1989. Video of the show was obtained from the Vanderbilt University television news archives. See also Walter Goodman, “A Poll of Viewers’ Feelings about Racial Issues,” New York Times, September 8, 1989.
“candy from a baby”: Stephen Rex Brown, “Exclusive: Members of the Central Park Five Shocked Donald Trump Is Leading GOP Candidate, Despite Having ‘No Compassion,’ ” New York Daily News, August 18, 2015.
Decades later: Video: “Central Park Five Member Recalls Trump,” Guardian, February 17, 2016.
“Wouldn’t
you say I’m a little controversial”: Trump interview with King, July 27, 1990.
“biggest scandal ever”: Transcript, “Oversight Hearing before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs,” Washington, DC, October 5, 1993, 242–47.
The comments echoed: Ibid. The hearing record includes a transcript from Trump’s appearance on Imus in the Morning.
cocaine lines and syringes: Neil Swidey, “Trump Plays Both Sides in Casino Bids,” Boston Globe, December 13, 2000.
ostensible telephone survey: James M. Odato, “Trump, Associates Detail Campaign,” Times Union, November 29, 2000.
Institute for Law and Safety: Bagli, “Trump and Others Accept Fines for Ads in Opposition to Casinos.”
a Republican operative and fixer: Roger Stone interview with Tom Hamburger and Mary Jordan, Washington Post, May 11, 2016.
Trump had paid: Bagli, “Trump and Others Accept Fines for Ads in Opposition to Casinos.”
The state lobbying: Settlement Agreement between Trump Casino and Hotels and New York Temporary State Commission on Lobbying, November 13, 2000.
“It’s been settled”: Bagli, “Trump and Others Accept Fines for Ads in Opposition to Casinos.”
misdemeanor charge: Kenneth Lovett, “Republican Game to Pounce on Donald Trump over $250,000 Fine He Paid for Illegal Lobbying to Stop Indian-Run Casino,” New York Daily News, March 8, 2016.
“destroy the progress”: Bagli, “Trump and Others Accept Fines for Ads in Opposition to Casinos.”
Under a 1997 pact: Ruling and Order, March 31, 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts vs. David A. Roscow, et al., U.S. District Court, Connecticut, Case No. 3:03CV1133.
Miami-based firm: Lobbying Disclosure Act database, U.S. Senate, http://soprweb.senate.gov.
tribe won federal: Complaint: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts vs. David A. Roscow. In 2005, three years after winning federal recognition, the Department of the Interior reversed its decision following an appeal by Connecticut’s attorney general.
more than $600,000: Ronald Platt interview with Shawn Boburg, Washington Post, May 19, 2016.
“held back payment”: Matt Flegenheimer and Steve Eder, “Donald Trump’s Trips to Capitol Hill Years Ago Foretold of Campaign,” New York Times, May 11, 2016.
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