The Rachel Maddow Show, 7/20/16, 7:44 PM ET  Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter for Donald Trump’s book “Art of the Deal”, speaks out about his experience of working with the GOP nominee.  Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal,” told MSNBC Wednesday that the Trump campaign sent him a cease and desist letter in response to his comments about the Republican candidate.  Schwartz, a former journalist, was employed by Trump to ghostwrite his memoir in 1987. In an interview with MSNBC, Schwartz described the Republican candidate for president as “having no heart and no soul.”  Of course, the more Team Trump wants to shut Schwartz up, the more curious I am about what Schwartz has to say.  “I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”  If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”  The fact that Trump relied on a ghostwriter hardly comes as a surprise. Take five minutes to watch the Republican candidate speak or do an interview, and it becomes pretty obvious that he couldn’t compose a lengthy text on his own.  Rather, the significance here is that Trump’s ghostwriter learned quite a bit about Trump through the process, and found him to be mentally unstable.
Donald Trump is eager to silence the man who actually wrote Trump's book. Given what the ghostwriter discovered, we know exactly why Trump wants to shut him up.