Then a fresh-faced real estate scion, Trump was seen as the “embodiment of a rising city,” Barrett recounts in Tricia Romano’s excerpt of ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write.’ But, as his former colleagues at ‘The Village Voice’ recall, Barrett instantly saw through the façade.
But his most sensational subject would turn out to be Donald Trump, then a fledgling real estate magnate working under the tutelage of his better-known father, Fred Trump. In the late seventies through the eighties and nineties, Trump would become a flashy figure in high society, much to the benefit of gossip columnists and, of course, his own public profile. But Barrett knew better, and his first investigative series for the Voice revealed the slimier side of Trump’s playbook for years to come.
So, where’s the article?” Sitting next to Linda is this thing piled up this high on yellow copy paper—we still had typewriters then. And I said, “Oh, that’s it?” Linda said, “And Wayne wants every word of it published.” Linda did it with a little bit of a twinkle in her eye. It was really good. Parts of it were pretty dense. But it went into all of Trump’s deals. This is a guy who would use tax breaks and other government things to build stuff and make a lot of money off of the taxpayer.
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