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      “I wrote every word of it,” Schwartz told Good Morning America Monday. “Donald Trump made a few red marks when I handed him the manuscript but that was it,” he continued (this is far from unusual in terms of ghost-written celebrity books). Trump has denied this, saying he wrote the book. Link

      The US president is, according to his own aides from the first term, functionally illiterate.

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        Not sure about that source. Presidents have speech writers. Those writers are historically gangrenous I mean fantabulous influencers

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          You’re not sure if we can trust the listed co-author of Trump’s most famous book that ghost-wrote it for him, on who wrote the book?

          There’s absolutely mountains of evidence that Trump operates at a 4th to 6th grade level as an orator, and video evidence (courtroom) of him refusing to read a page in front of him, claiming various things ‘text too small’, ‘don’t have my glasses’ (Trump has never been pictured wearing glasses) etc. Bro can’t read anything beyond the McDonalds menu to identify which number he wants next to a picture.

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          However, he wasn’t president until almost 30 years after the book was published. I’d be surprised if he had speech writers back then, especially given that he was considered a tabloid writer’s dream at the time; an easy punchline to any story about the ultra-wealthy being out of touch.