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I think it is an excellent assumption pretty much every case but my. A by the way few turned on to be last year you have not seen me. You dont see too much of. First theyre usually right and i was i was better understood. I told New York Times reporters who mostly hate me, but they have the bestsellers list, fiction, nonfiction, i want to separate section for others who have written their own books. That is one thing every New York Times reporter agrees with me on because they are at least writers. They may be satanists but they are writers. My second book, my editor called me and said congratulations you are on the bestseller lists. By the way youre the only person on the list to run her own book. Host how do you write your books . With the process quest marks. Guest usually i take a year off. This is unusual. Its faster. I think slander entries and i may have done a back to back years. That was an emergency. This this is an emergency. Usually i take a year off and i have after i finish the book im moving out from, from one thing i sam never going to write another book. For. Why do you say that . Guest at auto was done. It started with treason i thought thats everything id wanted to say. Ive been wanting to write it since i was college and ive been writing to write slander since i was like 11. Then i thought okay thats everything i wanted to say but then something comes along and i think oh, i have to look this up mom interested in this. From darwinism, mccarthyism, the french revolution, and then i have the thesis for the i have the thesis for the book and i start reading, reading to see if there is a point to the thesis. I have dropped some ideas for books, effect that is how i ended up writing another book. That was going to be one chapter. Ive already written a couple of chapters for that book it wasnt that it wasnt going to be a good idea just found so much more that mass conspiracy about whats happening with immigration to the American People. For a while i took time off and i read my formulated and then i start writing. Im completely cut off from the world. People who know me, every time i am writing a book and this is not my 12, i will get an email from from someone i have become friendly with recently, at some point like a month and im sorry, have i done something to offend you. Are you mad at me . My friends who know me knows that shes writing a book do not expect her to email. You dont talk to anybody . I have a couple of talking partner. Who are they. One of whom you know, i cannot tell. Host do you run your story ideas by them, d7 things that youre working on. Guest just to chat. Im trying to think ever force, i guess there are about three. Host what makes a good chit chat partner . Guest if i can read conversation around something im writing about, unfortunately with all of on that is very difficult to do. Ill have to listen to 20 minutes on him calling me or repot Appliance Repair man before i can work the conversation to whatever trump said that day or whatever it is i want to talk about. A lot of it is talking ideas out when i can get to that part of the conversation. That is is fun and that gets me going. But do i ever get them to have me read portions of it, thats way harder. A lot of kicking and screaming was really a noise me. Host do you like the process of writing a book question book . Guest i love it. I like tv too but and i like radio and speeches, and asa never be able to remember wished id like more, more, to be, writing, which of these. And when i was writing it was either a deb also i dont have to wake up to an alarm clock. And luckily i think thats why its fun is because i get bored easily so i only read about stuff and write about stuff that is interesting. The french revolution is really interesting so it was totally fun. It is not an assignment. Nobody is saying that you must write about the french revolution i just read all this fun stuff and i love the Research Part of it. I love love cracking down how the media is hiding stuff, not only the media but the government. Hiding true true and Important Information from us about immigration. And obviously the trump book which is unusual in a few ways compared to my other books. Most of that research was watching trump. Host so you think this out quickly. Guest welcome i had the idea in january and i was pretty pretty sure trump is going to be the nominee. We started talking about it. The january before i probably thought of trump what others thought about it with that rapist speech. But still the primaries were going on in even as i was talk about it with my age and i forget host talk about it with publishers. I had the idea and various people seem to like the idea. I cannot really seriously push myself to start writing it until ted cruz conceded, whatever that was. Host april. Host yes, thats is a fast turnaround so there are some heirs. Host how long did it take. Guest then i turned it in, maybe a month ago. April till may, june, july, were in, were in august now. That actually seems like a long time. I can do that on one hand. Host what is this book about . Guest im always the worst at describing my books. Host in trump we trust. Guest E Pluribus Unum awesome. I do think, the thing that i trust him on is his basic philosophy of putting america first. On trade, immigration, on wars. He has made so many mistakes. I mean little mistakes. He back tracks and gets back on. But when the entire media and i mean the entire media rose up to crush him after that mexican rapist speech, it took me two weeks to believe that he is not good to back down. I think it took me longer than that. I started emailing and every once in a while i would send a point you might want to mention, like him as he. For probably six months while we can figure out how it was, however many points i had, one would always be dont let him back down on immigration. I think it was after the muslim ban i finally said okay i think hes not backing down. Now i believe you. Host now he appears to be a little bit. Guest not really. Im annoyed but its a rhetorical thing. I never thought deportation was going to be an humane. He is responded to media character sure. I wish he would phrase it differently. Not say softening, and allowing the media to go crazy. And highlight this, or getting a wall, were going to be able to do our job. Well have a major cutback on muslim immigration and as for what is going to happen for the law abiding, with the children, Illegal Immigrants, why doesnt he just say and by the way everything ive just said is something that i have not been under other president s, not jeff, rubio, walker, probably not romney. We are 8,000,000 miles ahead of anything i have ever imagined what happened in my lifetime, even with that. But why doesnt he just say about what is going to happen with the illegals, the point is nobody has a right to be in this country illegally. We as america will decide whether it is good for america whether you stay or go. It will be determined on the basis of what is in this countrys best interest. Not what is in the best interest of someone who is not american. Host how do you think a Statement Like that would be received . Guest fine. Host how with the present or for that . Guest its softening. Host i guess i want to get to the question, so you live in an affluence code and so presumably most of your neighbors are antitrump, a lot of people you know the most of your life. Most people are probably in tight trump and what is it that says people on edge . Guest washington is much worse than any other place. Host the most antitrump place. Guest oh my gosh, its existential existential for washington. Its like theres something in the water. I know to none, two people were not trump this trump hysterics and like it George Ripper in doctor strangelove there drinking gray now call because there something going on in this town. First of all, and two of the main cities im in new york city and l. A. , i would say that i have of approximately 30 of my toptier and secondtier friends, immediately all but one were 100 pro trump. That is both both the new york and l. A. Look, to pair paraphrase donald trump, im talking about smart, highly educated people, instantly pro trump. Only one in each city was antitrust. In. In washington it was exactly the reverse. And then, and other fancy locales will i will tell you i spent christmas in palm beach, and Walking Around at christmas time we had seen the polls and because i know some of the pro trump first yet, that town was 100 i would say more jab than rubio, but they were were all wandering around shellshocked saying i dont understand it. We were all for jab, the hispanic is all for trump. Host so here you have the richest guy ever to run for president in which people dont like him, what you think that is . Guest i think it is less the rich, my experience does happen to be true admittedly is anecdotal. I think the washington versus palm beach, beverly hills, manhattan actually tells us a lot. A lot of the rich people, there are two categories well find out which ones are patriots and which ones just wanted cheap labor and want to be locus on the america and then move onto the next country. We are finding out right now. But i think but i think some of them are of the political are perfectly lovely people, they want to republican to win, they think is better for the country, and they may have just been snowed by Campaign Consultants who say okay, we have to get job bizarrely shot. We. We have to give me a Million Dollars for jab. Theyre busy making millions of dollars so they think okay already checked for jab. While trump has shown the wizard of oz pull back the curtain, now they they know why am i wasting money on these idiots like Stuart Stephen and mike murphy for, they dont know their heads from the hole in the ground. Host so why does the press hate him so very much . Host here you have a candidate who says and i think there are a lot of reasons to be concerned about trump, but here you have a candidate who says im here to represent the middle class people without a voice, gastric system in traditional and traditionally think of the press has been a populist institution on behalf of the people against the powerful. That is what they tell themselves and the rest of us. Yet almost to a person they have come out against trump and the various sort of way. What is that about . Guest part of it is what were just describing. Who benefits from not only ilLegal Immigration but a lot of lowwage Legal Immigration. Wealthy people people do. They have cheap gardeners, cheap mates, the gardeners and the maids do not live in their neighborhoods, they live out in the suburbs. So. So it is other peoples Emergency Rooms that are being bankrupted. It it is other people schools that cannot have pageants anymore because theyre spending all of their money on english as a second language classes. The media is part of that elite which is just utterly selfcentered, selfinterested force force in the middle class to subsidize their cheap labor. But the other part of it is and that is the Political Part which is probably what drives them the most crazy, the left was just on the verge of total it started with sending kennedy in 1965 immigration at, obama put it into overdrive. Clinton started to put it in overdrive but woe, obama left clinton in the test with all of the. Host bush and slow down much guest but with obama hes wine the man from Central America and putting them come i think theyve written about it i know ive read various articles about putting all of these third world immigrants in the states they need. So the longterm plan of the kennedy democrats was, over time we bring in a Million Immigrants per year, 90 of the for third world, 80 for the democrats, democrats, 50 years well have an unbeatable majority. Suddenly theyre looking at it next year. Theyre on the verge, the cusp the cusp of winning and along comes trump. And so hes going to shut it down. Host so it sounds like youre making an argument to save you down what makes trump so loathsome to the people in power its his opposition to immigration. If you if you narrow down what makes it so it appealing to others, is the opinion on immigrations. So its on immigration. Guest i think so. I think immigration is the great unifier. Guest factoring in the fact that you wrote a book on immigration and you have it online, do you think think there is evidence that this is what its really about. If your people on television say the exit polls hotels that and dont suggest that its number one a Peoples Party list. Guest whenever they say that i look at what people do say as their number one issue. Its always things like jobs, terrorism, cultural changes. Theyre all for immigration and also americans are nice people. I think they have the sense, specially with the media telling them this that if they say its immigration its as if theyre saying something about immigrants. They are nice people, we like like immigrants. And trump always says, he loves hispanics. That is my favorite tweet of all the things that he has done other than the mexican rapist is speech. Host you like the taco bell speech . Guest that was making for multiculturalism. It. It was hilarious. I screamed. I love hispanics. Host having a talk about salad and trumps house. Guest it sounds like you at appreciate the Performance Art element. I dont think thats i people are voting for him but he is very funny. He is very politically correct. There is a big appeal. Host you know trump and you been following this closely. What percentage would you have the top of your head is his statements are ironic, sarcastic, designed for shock value to amuse him, like when he says mccain got captured and got a metal ands a lot of people got captured where their metals was that serious . Guest i read about it in the book at one point. I think that was lied about. He was angry and lashing out and he deserved to be angry and lashing out. I read about that as well as the attack on the disabled reporter. I reporter. I would not say either of them were more ironic or sarcastic. But i think he was there both lied about any i think he was justified in both cases. If you take the mccain case, these poor arizonans they have been so overwhelmed with the ilLegal Immigration, with girls being right, kettles been slaughter, fences knocked down, they have been overwhelmed with ilLegal Immigration begging the federal government to do something. The do something. The federal government will not do anything. They have that famous, as the media calls it the papers please law which required of immigrants since 1940s, i guess the we been living in a nazi state sense 1940 theyre required to carry their papers on them. So that was attacked by all of the bush people as unconstitutional and so outrageous that if the law was in arizona stateroom and a policeman if they are in the process of arresting someone and they suspect them to be an illegal alien, mass for his immigration papers. And all my gosh, do you remember how that was, its by the supreme court, did you ever get a footnote by whatever happened with that with Lindsey Graham, the, the big constitutional scholar Lindsey Graham called unconstitutional. It was written by chris kovach, it was constitutional. After all of that, all of the smearing, trump goes to do his first event after the mexican rapist speech in arizona, they have just shut down the whole venue. Theyre like 20,000 people, thousand people, they have to rent a stadium. The day after it happened or maybe that it was happening, trump goes trump goes to the new yorker so he can call them crazy. The mac American People who showed up at the trump rally. Theyre going to call these lovely americans concerned about ilLegal Immigration to call them crazies and that is what trump was angry about. He called mccain a dummy is a he graduated second from his classroom annapolis. Then when then when he was being interviewed by franklin were wherever. Host the poster. Guest he raises with donald trump was that president ial to call senator john mccain a dummy quest mark is a war hero. So trump starts to explain what he was explaining. He have this event and a score of these people crazies. He says i know crazy, these people were not crazy they were lovely, decent americans. The minute trump explaining this, he gets interrupted to say but he is a war hero, hes a war hero. And that is when trump said or he is not a war hero, he got captured. I like people who were not captured. Or perhaps it was a war hero. And then he goes on. Toes just a just a flash of anger and then, it was not well not again, but its in the book, when trump attacks, he attacks the powerful on behalf of decent, lone suffering americans who are ridiculed and smeared at in the media all of the time. He was attacking on behalf of the slice americans were called crazy by john mccain. And look he took it back in the next sentence. Host so mccain is a Senior Center powerful, hard hard to say that about the con family, powerful. Guest fair point. I think its about time the democrats p